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Supporting activities and resources

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This section provides a suite of supporting learning activities and teaching resources to enrich your students' exploration of cultural interaction. You'll also find extra support for the 'considering responses' component of the social inquiry.

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Shows two Maori themed books, two kete and three outstretched hands.

Considering responses and decisions — teacher support

This page gives some extra support for considering responses and decisions with your class.
Illustration from 'The Rabbits'. Text reads 'They didn't live in the trees, like we did. They made their own houses. We couldn't understand the way they talked.

Visual texts related to cultural interaction

Visual texts are a useful springboard for discussing cultural interaction with students. 'The Rabbits' is a sophisticated picture book that can be used as a powerful visual tool for discussing cultural interaction and colonisation.
Banner with the Maori proverb 'Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au — I am the river and the river is me'.

Change-maker — the Whanganui River

Explore the fight for a river's rights. The Whanganui River is the first river in the world to be granted the same legal rights as a human being.
Photograph showing the underside of a silver fern.

Cross-curricular — English

Poems are a powerful way to explore themes related to cultural interaction, identity, and names. Use these poems and teacher notes in the social studies classroom or as part of the English curriculum.
Photograph of an exhibition including a large photograph of Guide Bella greeting Jean Batten.

Definitions of key cultural interaction terms

Here are some sample definitions for concepts related to cultural interaction in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A painting showing Māori and Pakeha signing the Treaty of Waitangi.

More cultural interaction resources

Here are some useful teaching resources to further explore cultural interaction.