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Resources for teaching NZ history topics
Discover a wide range of quality resources to support teaching and learning about topics covering the histories of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Resources for teaching NZ history topics
Arrival and settlement of Māori in Aotearoa NZ
First encounters and early colonial history of Aotearoa NZ
Te Tiriti o Waitangi / Treaty of Waitangi and its history
Colonisation/immigration to Aotearoa and the NZ Wars
Aotearoa NZ's national identity in late 19th/early 20th centuries
Aotearoa NZ and our national identity in late 20th century
Aotearoa New Zealand's role in the Pacific
Storybook app: Turikatuku — Te wahine taki wairua
Teaching tools and resource guides
Curiosity cards for inquiry
Set 1: He Tohu and Tuia — Encounters 250
Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (CC0001)
Te Horeta's nail (CC0002)
The 'Crook Cook' statue (CC0003)
Burning the forest (CC0004)
A New Zealand 1951 fifty pound note (CC0005)
Tuki te Terenui Whare Pirau's map (CC0006)
2017 Women’s March (CC0007)
Te Rangitopeora (CC0008)
The bicycle and women's suffrage (CC0009)
Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia (CC0010)
Mere Ruiha Hakaraia/Mary Bevan’s signature on the 1893 Suffrage Petition (CC0011)
Girls can do anything (CC0012)
1893 anti-suffrage cartoon (CC0013)
Frances Parker’s Women’s Social and Political Union Medal for Valour (CC0014)
Mt Cook School in Wellington (CC0015)
Set 2: Tuia Mātauranga
Navigation (TMCC1)
Waka hourua (TMCC2)
Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (TMCC3)
Te Horeta's nail (TMCC4)
Matau rino (TMCC5)
Whakapapa (TMCC6)
'Crook Cook' statue (TMCC7)
Silver fern (TMCC8)
Huia (TMCC9)
Hāngi (TMCC10)
Mt Cook School in Wellington (TMCC11)
Kahu kiwi (TMCC12)
Hikoi (TMCC13)
Whales (TMCC14)
Cross-cultural identity (TMCC16)
Multiculturalism (TMCC17)
Kauri dieback disease (TMCC18)
Blank curiosity card template
Fertile questions
Primary sources — how to use them
Inquiry exemplars and templates
Guides for exploring children's and YA literature
Explore He Tohu with your students
World War 1 (WW1) resources
Topic Explorer guide
EPIC guide
AnyQuestions guide
DigitalNZ guide
Papers Past guide
Index New Zealand (INNZ) guide
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