Term 2 Week 2
Section outline
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING... New Zealand’s Voyaging/Sailing Heritage by interpreting maps of early Polynesian/Maori voyaging
- We are EXPLORING... New Zealand’s Voyaging/Sailing Heritage by discovering oral traditions that pass on the knowledge of early Polynesian/Maori voyaging

Activities:- Check learning activity completion
- KWL chart - google document: Polynesian and Maori Voyaging and Navigation Expertise (complete KNOW column). ThenWatch the introduction video Kaupapa On The Couch Get on the waka! (now complete WANT column)
- Kupe - Maori Oral History. Use the resources of the oral history that best suits you and THEN - complete the Learning Guide (handout) to recall the Story of Kupe (glue in excercise book)
- Mapping activity. create your own Google Map and use pins on your Google Map to show and label where Kupe voyaging took him in NZ (share your maps public link in Google classroom)
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=be9ec5ec3dc24405bc0d2a769fae81ee
https://teara.govt.nz/en/first-peoples-in-maori-tradition/page-6#:~:text=According%20to%20some%20tribal%20narratives,fishing%20in%20Hawaiki%2C%20his%20homeland.&text=Kupe%20set%20out%20in%20his,brought%20him%20to%20New%20Zealand.
If all of the above is complete - SSR - Maori Oral History Stories -
Watch the short clip
The Aotearoa History Show - Episode 2 | Tangata Whenua
Further Learning....Ensure all the learning Activities identified in Activity 1 above are complete