Who is the guide for? | Subjects by Grade

PLACE-BASED LEARNING

The North Shore Culture Compass encourages place-based learning, taking advantage of geography to create authentic, meaningful, and engaging personalized learning. It enables an immersive experience that places students in local history, heritage, culture, landscapes, opportunities, and experiences, and uses these as a foundation for the study of arts, history, geography, social studies, and other subjects in the curriculum.

This guide is an adaptable resource to support educators as they guide students to explore and engage with the North Shore Culture Compass. We invite teachers and instructors to use this guide as a springboard for classwork, outdoor and interactive experiences, home schooling, online learning, individual or group activities and projects.

The Navigators Education Programme was created to include key topics in the curriculum to ensure students are engaged in learning opportunities that go beyond memorizing facts, as well as address the development of core competencies: critical and creative thinking, communication, social, and personal development.