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Content
Guidance
Resources
Te Whāriki and Aotearoa New Zealand Histories
Below is a link to sites you can use to build your knowledge and to find reliable puuraakau, stories about the past of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Some of the resources and activities are aimed at school aged aakonga, students. They are included as a reference tool for you to add to your personal knowledge and to help inform your local curriculum development.
Schools and Kura Kaupapa
Getting Started - with implementing Aotearoa New Zealand Histories - Where to start for school leaders:
Aotearoa New Zealand's histories Part 1
Aotearoa New Zealand's histories Part 2
Where to start for Teachers and Kaiako:
Teaching Resources (you will find the majority of these resources throughout the site).
Here you will find 28 digital resources split into year level, type of resources and the context it is linked to.
Connections across the Pacific: Years 4 - 6
Stories of discovery and journeying are woven into our collective and diverse identities. This resource shows how four texts from the School Journal series can be used to support learning in the context of whakapapa me te whanaungatanga through the topic of voyaging.
Professional Learning Opportunities
Webinars
Regionally allocatd PLD
Networks of Expertise
Curriculum Leads
There is also additional teacher support material that provides suggestions for literacy strategies to help all students access each text. Click on the button above.
These skills align with a social inquiry approach to learning and support teachers and students to engage with issues and ideas critically.
Aotearoa New Zealand's Histories in action
Watch some of the Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories in action videos, which show teachers trialling parts of the content in their classroom, and include
a range of teaching strategies and lots of great ideas.
Tuurangawaewae
Belonging - Identity
Culture - Community
Place - Continuity
Whakapapa
Tuupuna - Connections
Belonging - Identity - Culture
Community - Tikanga
Mana Whenua
"Whaowhia te Kete Maataurnaga"
"Fill the basket of knowledge"
The resource below is presented through
FIVE THEMES.
Each theme provides teachers and students with a way to connect with Maaori History. The themes connect with each other and are interwoven with national and local events.
Whanaungatanga
Whaanau - Hapu - Iwi - Whakapap
Whakapapa - Tuupuna
Connections - Community
Manaakitanga - Kotahitanga
Unity
Kaitiaitanga
Time - Context
Perspective - Knowledge
Tikanga - Guardianship
Mana Motuhake
Belonging - Identity
Mana - Controversy
Conflict - Consequences
Tino Rangatiratanga
This site is designed to give you access to materials that will assist in the implementation of Te Takanga o te Wā, Guidelines for Teachers Years 1–8. Stories of Iwi educators, secondary teachers and their students sharing their experiences of teaching and learning Maori.
Many of these resources in this site have been split up under Websites, Topic Explorer and Many Answers for easy navigation
Here you will find information on Profiles, Mana, Moriori today, history, beginnings, myths and mistruths, timelines, nunuku's law, Karakii rēkohu, Kōpinga Marae, korero
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Teaching resource - First Collision Yr 5 to 10
Education Resource - Redressing the Past
Education Visit - Virtual Explorer: Feed programmes
Top 25 historical resources to research, teach and learn about New Zealand History.
The Tuia Maatauranga education programme
Supports teaching and learning, highlighting local people, places, and events that shaped their history. The programme is aimed at inspiring children and young people to explore their own stories of who they are and where they come from, to develop a sense of whakapapa and identity. For the purposes of Tuia Maatauranga, four themes will be incorporated: globalisation, enterprise, citizenship, and sustainability. These will be explored within the context of the following four topics.
The Tribunal has produced a number of resource kits for use in primary and secondary schools. Although most were first published some years ago, they have been reviewed and can still be used effectively within the social-studies syllabus.
This module outlines key messages from research and literature that relate to schools connecting with their Maaori communities, including whaanau , hapuu and iwi.