Aotearoa New Zealand History and You - Bk 1 Cover

Aotearoa New Zealand History and You - Bk 1

Beginning Level 1 – Beginning Level 4

Aotearoa New Zealand History and You is the essential resource you need to implement Aotearoa New Zealand's histories | Te Takanga o Te Wā within your primary school classroom. 

The New Zealand history curriculum is on a path to show our tamariki how history has shaped our present lives. The activities within Aotearoa New Zealand History and You want to help students along the path by prompting them to think about our country's past and how these historical events are relevant to our present and future.  

For primary school teachers, the resource supplies you with plenty of content and activities to create New Zealand history lesson plans from Years 1 to 8. These are provided at three different levels so you can choose the ones that best suit the learning level of your class. The activities explore a range of big ideas, as well as how to put those ideas into action. The book includes a focus on te Tiriti o Waitangi for Years 4 to 6 and 6 to 8.  

Ages: 5-12 | Pages: 64 | Code: 31252 | ISBN: 9781776559800

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Marie Langley

Marie Langley’s experience in education includes 19 years teaching in secondary and area (Years 1 to 13) schools, 10 years as head of an English department, and seven years as a deputy principal. Her published works include a thesis for a Master of Teaching and Learning degree, magazine articles, short stories, poetry, picture books, a junior novel and numerous educational resource texts. She currently lives and works in Golden Bay in the top north-west corner of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Vaughan Rapatahana

Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ätiawa) commutes between homes in Hong Kong, Philippines, and Aotearoa New Zealand. He is widely published across several genre in both his main languages, te reo Mäori and English and his work has been translated into Bahasa Malaysia, Italian, French, Mandarin, Romanian, Spanish.

He earned a Ph. D from the University of Auckland with a thesis about Colin Wilson and writes extensively about Wilson. Rapatahana is a critic of the agencies of English language proliferation and the consequent decimation of indigenous tongues, inaugurating and co-editing English language as Hydra and Why English? Confronting the Hydra (Multilingual Matters, Bristol, UK, 2012 and 2016).

He is also a poet, with eight collections published in Hong Kong SAR; Macau; Philippines; USA; England; France, India, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Atonement (UST Press, Manila) was nominated for a National Book Award in Philippines (2016); he won the inaugural Proverse Poetry Prize the same year; and was included in Best New Zealand Poems (2017).

In July 2018, he participated in the Hauterives Literary Festival in France. In September 2019, he participated in the World Poetry Recital Night, in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. In October 2019, he participated in the Poetry International Festival at The Southbank Centre, London. He also appeared at the Medellin Poetry Festival in Colombia during August 2021,

Rapatahana is one of the few World authors who consistently writes in and is published in te reo Mäori (the Mäori language). It is his mission to continue to do so and to push for a far wider recognition of the need to write and to be published in this tongue.

New Zealand Book Council Writers File is https://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writer/rapatahana-vaugh

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Nau mai, haere mai | Welcome5
1. Beginning Level 1 – Level 1: Years 1 to 36
Activity 1.1. Big idea: What does "tangata whenua" mean?6
Activity 1.2. Explore the big idea: Who came next?7
Activity 1.3. Put ideas into action: What can place names teach us?8
2. Beginning Level 2 – Beginning Level 3: Years 4 to 69
Activity 2.1. Big idea: Where did Mäori come from?9
Activity 2.2. Explore the big idea: Why did Polynesians come here?10
Activity 2.3. Put ideas into action: What linked the early iwi?11
Activity 2.4. Big idea: Why did Europeans come to Aotearoa New Zealand?12
Activity 2.5. Explore the big idea: What did Europeans find in Aotearoa New Zealand?13
Activity 2.6. Put ideas into action: How did Mäori and Europeans interact at first?14
Activity 2.7. Big idea: Why did Mäori and European cultures clash?15
Activity 2.8. Explore the big idea: How did culture clash affect people's lives?16
Activity 2.9. Put ideas into action: How did people try to resolve culture clash?17
Focus on te Tiriti o Waitangi: Activities 2.10–2.2018
3. Level 3 – Beginning Level 4: Years 6 to 840
Activity 3.1. Big idea: Why did many Mäori move to towns and cities?40
Activity 3.2. Explore the big idea: How did urbanisation affect the status of Maori?41
Activity 3.3. Put ideas into action: How can we overcome disadvantage?42
Activity 3.4. Big idea: What have different cultures contributed to our society?43
Activity 3.5. Explore the big idea: How do you decide if a contribution is positive or negative?44
Activity 3.6. Put ideas into action: How would you like to contribute to our society?45
Focus on te Tiriti o Waitangi: Activities 3.7–3.1746