The deck is the artefact. One continuous classroom deck of 174 slides in six phases — the phase scripts (DECK-*-SCRIPT.md) are its authority, and slide count is never the point; the learning sequence is. This map navigates the organism as built. Teacher layer lives in the deck's speaker notes (press S).
Open the classroom deck → · Unit overview · Lesson-by-lesson sequence · Kaiako companion & answer keys
Phase 1 · Lessons 1–3 · deck slides ph-o
Which war is this — and whose world? Why did it happen?
Build the schema first: which war, where, who — then causation (MAIN as scaffold, never determinism; the July Crisis is decision-making, not destiny).
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Student resources: Naming the war · WW1 ≠ WW2 diagnostic · Europe 1914 map task · MAIN cause-chain lab
Phase 2 · Lessons 4–6 · deck slides ph-a
Why did New Zealand go — and who chose?
Dominion status vs participation choices; recruitment; the Native Contingent and varied iwi responses — service and resistance both present from the start.
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Student resources: Empire & identity source sort · Would You Go? role cards · A school at war inquiry · Māori service & Pioneer evidence
Phase 3 · Lessons 7–9 · deck slides ph-b
What did this war actually ask of the people in it?
Gallipoli and the Western Front as distinct campaigns; one war, many experiences; total war reaches civilians.
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Student resources: War-experience source lab · One war, different lives · Total war & home front
Phase 4 · Lessons 10–11 · deck slides ph-c
Who has to fight — and who decides?
Conscription and conscience at home; Māori futures under pressure — Te Puea Hērangi and Waikato resistance alongside Māui Pōmare and Āpirana Ngata, kept distinct, none flattened.
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Student resources: Conscription: three perspectives
Phase 5 · Lesson cluster 11–12 · deck slides ph-d
Who made the peace — and what did it change?
Armistice is not the treaty; the negotiation as competing aims; Aotearoa's separate signature and its changing international position — with Samoa as the complication to any simple independence story.
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Student resources: Big Four role cards · Versailles negotiation
Phase 6 · Lesson cluster 12 · deck slides ph-e
What did the war leave behind — and whose story survived?
ANZAC memory as a powerful, selective national story; the final judgement is built from evidence accumulated across all six phases — 'WW1 created New Zealand' stays a claim under test, never a settled fact.
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Student resources: Whose WW1? memorial inquiry · National-identity evidence matrix · Aftermath: land, influenza, Samoa · Whose WW1? rubric