Kaiako Run-Sheet — WW1 & National Identity
Year 9 Social Studies. What to open, what to print, what ākonga do, and what evidence comes back. Everything linked here was checked and exists.
The arc
CAUSES → CHOICE → EXPERIENCE → CONTESTED LOYALTY → PEACE → MEMORY. The final inquiry about national identity only works once ākonga actually understand the war they are interpreting — which is why orientation is protected at the start.
The week at a glance
| Phase | Big question | Ākonga produce |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Causes ~3 periods | What war are we actually studying — and why did it begin? | Which-war sort · “It became a world war because…” · coloured Europe map · weighted causes |
| 2 · Choice 2–3 periods | Why did Aotearoa go, and who decided? | Identity Ledger entry 1 · “Would you go?” decision before and after evidence |
| 3 · Experience ~3 periods | Whose war was it? | Real-person dossiers · Total War systems map |
| 4 · Contested loyalty 2–3 periods | Who was allowed to refuse? | Decision hearing advising a Waikato whānau |
| 5 · Peace ~2 periods | Who got to decide the peace? | Negotiation with influence points · Versailles comparison |
| 6 · Memory ~3 periods | Whose WW1 is remembered? | Six-item museum curation · final judgement |
Phase 1 · Episode 1 — “Which war? What world?”
WALT — distinguish WW1 from WW2; identify the main sides and locate key countries and empires in 1914; explain why this became a world war.
Evidence back: the sort sheet, and the finished sentence. Read the sentences — they tell you whether “world” landed as scale or as slogan.
The maps · what to print
✅ The maps exist. An earlier version of this page said they did not — that was true on 23 August 2026 and was fixed the same day. All of them are installed, rights-cleared and print-ready.
Europe — Europe 1914 map task: a labelled reference map, a Balkans detail, and a blank map that shares the reference map’s exact extent, so ākonga can transfer what they found. The blank is an SVG recoloured for print (white fill, dark borders) — print it at A3 if your copier allows; Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania get very small at A4.
The world — Why do we call it a world war?: this is the world-map handout that deck slide o9 asks for. A reference map of who fought worldwide, plus a blank Pacific-centred world map to print in landscape. Pacific-centred on purpose — every Europe-centred world map cuts the Pacific at the edge and drops Samoa off the sheet entirely.
⚠️ You must point to Samoa yourself. It is on the blank map, but it is about 2mm across at A4 and ākonga cannot pick it out unaided. The task text tells them so rather than pretending otherwise.
Whiteboard fallback, if the copier dies (20–25 min): draw a deliberately rough Europe yourself and say it’s rough. Build it live, naming each as you add it — Britain, France, German Empire, Austria-Hungary (a multi-national empire, not a country on today’s map), Serbia directly south of it, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Belgium (flag it now — it matters in Phase 2), Italy. Two colours for the sides, and a third mark for “not yet / neutral” — that third mark is the teaching point, not a footnote. Ākonga copy it with a legend. Check: cover the board — which two are the Central Powers, and where is Serbia relative to Austria-Hungary?
Using the deck
The deck carries a speaker note on every slide — press S to open presenter view. You do not need to write your own words. There are also per-phase presenter scripts in the unit folder (DECK-OPENING-SCRIPT.md and five more) whose slide IDs match the deck exactly.
What this unit does not include
There are no minute-by-minute timings anywhere in the unit, and no answer keys. Both are largely by design — the evidence sorts, negotiations and curation tasks have no single correct outcome. The exception worth knowing: the which-war diagnostic has no key either, and is marked from the front off the deck.