This workbook provides a range of activities for a full Social Studies teaching programme typically taught at Year 9 or 10 that specifically covers the Achievement Objective ‘Understand how people’s management of resources impacts on environmental and social sustainability’ from Level 5 of The New Zealand Curriculum, Social Sciences. This workbook features twelve independent units of work: Introduction Sustaining our native forests Saving our oceans and seas The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Managing e-waste Tuvalu struggles to sustain human life Sustainable Samsø Island New Zealand’s declining water quality Sustainable water trail at Auckland’s Botanic Gardens Waste disposal in landfills New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone Sustainable Aotearoa Answers are available at www.esa.co.nz The workbook, based upon contemporary New Zealand, Pacific and international locations, also features: key social studies concepts social studies knowledge, skills and competencies key social studies vocabulary. Students working through this workbook will be able to: develop an understanding of the interrelationships between people and the environment recognise environmental and resource degradation and depletion describe the causes of resource degradation and depletion describe the consequences of resource degradation and depletion for people and the environment accept that resource use must be managed and sustained understand that conservation is necessary to ensure resource sustainability explain how groups attempt to protect the environment and manage resources take personal responsibility for environmental sustainability and adopt social action – get involved understand the concept of carbon footprint and suggest ways to reduce it understand that he/she is a global citizen and has a personal interest in managing resources to ensure environmental and social sustainability. The write-on format keeps student notes and work together in a compact form, providing a useful revision tool for tests and other assessments.