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Resources for teaching Aotearoa NZ histories topics
Visit page- Arrival and settlement of Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand
- First encounters and early colonial history of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi | the Treaty of Waitangi — and its history
- Colonisation/immigration to Aotearoa and Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa | the NZ Wars
- Aotearoa New Zealand from 1850 to 1950
- Aotearoa New Zealand from 1950 to 2000
- Aotearoa New Zealand’s relationship with the Pacific
- ‘Connected’ instructional series — resources
- Storybook app: Turikatuku — Te wahine taki wairua
- Te Kupenga: Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Teaching and learning resources
Te Kupenga: Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand
Visit page- About Te Kupenga online
- Waka sail
- Drawn to te ao Māori
- Young emissaries
- Letter from Eruera
- Meeting Hongi Hika
- Another view of Waitangi
- Whaling in the bay
- Bird trade
- Moko of Kawepō
- Hākari
- Transition in Tahiti
- Eight-hour-day champion
- Signing the Treaty
- First New Zealand atlas
- Two Māori in Vienna
- He wahine toa
- He hononga tāngaengae
- Selling a farming dream
- ‘I shall not die’
- Wāhine Māori, whenua Māori
- Telegraphic tweets
- Actions at Parihaka
- Farm of the south
- He whakaahua rangatira
- A Moriori group
- Last of the laughing owls
- A taxing imposition
- Kiriki hori
- Peace on the waters
- Taking Māori to the world
- Digging for livelihoods
- Champion of women in medicine
- Collective might
- ‘It’s just hell here’
- Safe sex pioneer
- Sāmoa mō Sāmoa!
- The draw of Haining Street
- Aotearoa from the air
- Auswanderung
- A Japanese songbook
- Custom meets colonisation
- Health in body and mind
- Gift of fire
- Koroua, mokopuna
- Mean money
- From Tokelau to Wellington
- Whetu — style icon
- ‘Educate to Liberate’
- The dawn raids
- ‘Not one more acre’
- Toitū te whenua
- Cambodian journeys
- A volcanic career
- All-white All Blacks
- Halt the racist tour
- Going anti-nuclear
- Ngā taonga reo Māori
- New breath for ancient voices
- He kiriata nui: Māori on screen
- Somali Pacific star
- Colour, movement and music
- For generations to come
- We Are Beneficiaries
- Tools for primary source analysis
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Tools for primary source analysis
Visit page- Explore a whakaahua | photo
- Explore a mahi toi | artwork
- Explore a tuhinga tawhito | unpublished document
- Explore a taputapu/taonga | object
- Explore a mahere | map
- Analyse a whakaahua | photo
- Analyse a mahi toi | artwork
- Analyse a tuhinga tawhito | unpublished document
- Analyse a tuhinga whakaputa | published document
- Analyse a taputapu/taonga | object
- Analyse a mahere | map
- Critically analyse a whakaahua | photo
- Critically analyse a mahi toi | artwork
- Critically analyse a tuhinga tawhito | unpublished document
- Critically analyse a tuhinga whakaputa | published document
- Critically analyse a taputapu/taonga | object
- Critically analyse a mahere | map
- Kohinga taunaki matua | A place to collect your evidence
- Using our primary source analysis tools in the classroom
- Social sciences topic starters for Years 0–3
- The New Zealand Wars
- Audiobooks and eBooks for students with dyslexia or other print disability
- Teaching tools and resource guides
- Teaching and learning resources
Teaching tools and resource guides
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Curiosity cards for inquiry
Visit page- Set 1: He Tohu and Tuia — Encounters 250
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- Curiosity cards for inquiry
Set 1: He Tohu and Tuia — Encounters 250
Visit page- Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (CC0001)
- Nail owned by Te Horeta (CC0002)
- The 'Crook Cook' statue (CC0003)
- Burning the forest (CC0004)
- A New Zealand 1951 fifty pound note (CC0005)
- Map drawn by Tuki te Terenui Whare Pirau (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
- Teaching and learning resources
- Teaching tools and resource guides
- Curiosity cards for inquiry
Set 2: Tuia Mātauranga
Visit page- Navigation (TMCC1)
- Waka hourua (TMCC2)
- Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (TMCC3)
- Nail owned by Te Horeta (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)
- Dawn raids (TMCC15)
- 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
- Videos
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- Nail owned by Te Horeta (TMCC4)
Nail owned by Te Horeta (TMCC4)
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Image on card: Ship’s nail. Carver unknown. Gift of Wakahuia Carkeek, 1965. Ref: ME011382 Te Papa. All rights reserved.
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- Resources for learning
- Resources for teaching Aotearoa NZ histories topics
- Arrival and settlement of Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand
- First encounters and early colonial history of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi | the Treaty of Waitangi — and its history
- Colonisation/immigration to Aotearoa and Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa | the NZ Wars
- Aotearoa New Zealand from 1850 to 1950
- Aotearoa New Zealand from 1950 to 2000
- Aotearoa New Zealand’s relationship with the Pacific
- ‘Connected’ instructional series — resources
- Storybook app: Turikatuku — Te wahine taki wairua
- Resources for teaching Aotearoa NZ histories topics
- Te Kupenga: Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand
- About Te Kupenga online
- Waka sail
- Drawn to te ao Māori
- Young emissaries
- Letter from Eruera
- Meeting Hongi Hika
- Another view of Waitangi
- Whaling in the bay
- Bird trade
- Moko of Kawepō
- Hākari
- Transition in Tahiti
- Eight-hour-day champion
- Signing the Treaty
- First New Zealand atlas
- Two Māori in Vienna
- He wahine toa
- He hononga tāngaengae
- Selling a farming dream
- ‘I shall not die’
- Wāhine Māori, whenua Māori
- Telegraphic tweets
- Actions at Parihaka
- Farm of the south
- He whakaahua rangatira
- A Moriori group
- Last of the laughing owls
- A taxing imposition
- Kiriki hori
- Peace on the waters
- Taking Māori to the world
- Digging for livelihoods
- Champion of women in medicine
- Collective might
- ‘It’s just hell here’
- Safe sex pioneer
- Sāmoa mō Sāmoa!
- The draw of Haining Street
- Aotearoa from the air
- Auswanderung
- A Japanese songbook
- Custom meets colonisation
- Health in body and mind
- Gift of fire
- Koroua, mokopuna
- Mean money
- From Tokelau to Wellington
- Whetu — style icon
- ‘Educate to Liberate’
- The dawn raids
- ‘Not one more acre’
- Toitū te whenua
- Cambodian journeys
- A volcanic career
- All-white All Blacks
- Halt the racist tour
- Going anti-nuclear
- Ngā taonga reo Māori
- New breath for ancient voices
- He kiriata nui: Māori on screen
- Somali Pacific star
- Colour, movement and music
- For generations to come
- We Are Beneficiaries
- Tools for primary source analysis
- Explore a whakaahua | photo
- Explore a mahi toi | artwork
- Explore a tuhinga tawhito | unpublished document
- Explore a taputapu/taonga | object
- Explore a mahere | map
- Analyse a whakaahua | photo
- Analyse a mahi toi | artwork
- Analyse a tuhinga tawhito | unpublished document
- Analyse a tuhinga whakaputa | published document
- Analyse a taputapu/taonga | object
- Analyse a mahere | map
- Critically analyse a whakaahua | photo
- Critically analyse a mahi toi | artwork
- Critically analyse a tuhinga tawhito | unpublished document
- Critically analyse a tuhinga whakaputa | published document
- Critically analyse a taputapu/taonga | object
- Critically analyse a mahere | map
- Kohinga taunaki matua | A place to collect your evidence
- Using our primary source analysis tools in the classroom
- Social sciences topic starters for Years 0–3
- The New Zealand Wars
- Audiobooks and eBooks for students with dyslexia or other print disability
- Teaching tools and resource guides
- Curiosity cards for inquiry
- Set 1: He Tohu and Tuia — Encounters 250
- Māori bartering with Joseph Banks (CC0001)
- Nail owned by Te Horeta (CC0002)
- The 'Crook Cook' statue (CC0003)
- Burning the forest (CC0004)
- A New Zealand 1951 fifty pound note (CC0005)
- Map drawn by Tuki te Terenui Whare Pirau (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)
- Nail owned by Te Horeta (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)
- Dawn raids (TMCC15)
- Cross-cultural identity (TMCC16)
- Multiculturalism (TMCC17)
- Kauri dieback disease (TMCC18)
- Blank curiosity card template
- Set 1: He Tohu and Tuia — Encounters 250
- 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
- Curiosity cards for inquiry
- Videos