Ki te hoe! | Let's get going!
Find curated teaching and learning resources to use with the New Zealand Curriculum Level 2 ‘Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!’ resource.
About ‘Ki te hoe! Let's get going!’
This Connected instructional series resource explores themes of:
journeying by waka across the Pacific
first arrivals in Aotearoa New Zealand
the naming of places
cultivation of kūmara.
It focuses on:
changes to the name of Tūranganui-a-Kiwa | Poverty Bay
the skills, preparation, and knowledge needed to traverse the Pacific by waka
life in a papakāinga in the 1700s.
Find the resource on the Ministry of Education website, Tāhūrangi: Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!.
Pacific navigation
This Topic Explorer set has quality, curated resources, including websites, images, videos, books and more: Pacific navigation.
This Many Answers entry guides students to reliable and trustworthy resources: Pacific navigation (senior primary).
Explore these pages from Tuia Mātauranga to highlight people, places and events that have helped shape our nation:
Te whakatere waka i Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa | Pacific navigation
Ngā tāngata i tae tuatahi mai i Te Moana-nui-ā-Kiwa | early Polynesian arrivals.
These curiosity cards use images and questions to spark student inquiry:
Explore content on the Digital Pasifik website: Master navigators.
Explore the Alexander Turnbull Library collections: Polynesia canoes.
Māori settlement and place names
Topic Explorer has:
Many Answers has:
Explore this content from Tuia Mātauranga:
Use the following He Tohu video and activities to explore the histories of land and place names in Aotearoa:
Explore the Alexander Turnbull Library collections:
Books, more resources and analysis tools
Books available through our school lending service related to these topics include:
Lending service — schools and home educators can borrow from our extensive collections of fiction and non-fiction books to inspire and inform your students’ inquiry and develop their love of reading.
Teaching and learning resources — free online teaching and learning resources, tools and guides.
Primary source analysis tools
Tools for primary source analysis — designed for ākonga (students) from years 1 to 13 in Aotearoa NZ schools.
Using primary source analysis tools in the classroom — read about how the tools are levelled and use a 3-step framework to help ākonga develop skills to analyse primary sources.
Image credit: Illustration by Josh Morgan.