Aotearoa New Zealand Histories

• Watch The Aotearoa Histories Show

• Identify significant events and create a shared timeline

• Investigate a local historical event

RESOURCES FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION

• Te Takanga o te Wā - Māori History Guidelines

• Artifact 2 (TV series)

• Unpack big idea:  'Colonisation and its consequences have been central to our history for the past 200 years and continue to influence all aspects of New Zealand society'

• Understand Māori and Pakehā perspectives:  Impacts of Colonisation on Modern Māori Culture 

RESOURCES FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION

• Land of the Long White Cloud

• Land ownership

• Develop a shared understanding of cultural narratives

• Develop a school pepehā that acknowledges your school's cultural location

RESOURCES FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION

• Building relationships with whānau, hapū, and iwi

• Knowing where you come from, knowing where you are going

• Identify the people and places in the community that can support the development of histories in your social sciences programme

• Check A history of New Zealand in 100 places (Auckland appears from #80)

RESOURCES FOR FURTHER EXPLORATION

• Broadening teachers' perspectives

• Match local history to a national topic in the Aotearoa New Zealand's histories resources guide

• Consider how the big ideas for Aotearoa New Zealand's histories can be linked to, and explored through, local historical contexts.