Section outline

  • Week 5: The Hangi and Maori Food Tourism   



    Success Criteria

    Describe traditional foods that were eaten by Maori long ago.  

    Understand the Maori Hangi – a Maori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in an oven pit. 

    Explain how elders are attempting to keep the ancient traditions alive by foraging for traditional foods so the knowledge does not become lost. 



    Activities:

    1. Food and Culture in New Zealand and do the activities in Google Classroom questions:

    2. Watch the video on Maori Food Tourism. Google Classroom

     3: The Hangi and Maori Food Tourism. Google Classroom


    FOCUS / ARONGA

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

    • We are FOCUSING on what it is like to participate in a Maori Hangi and on understanding the general relation between foods and their cultural trappings.
    • We are FOCUSING on the role of junk food in Western culture and in specifically – New Zealand, the composition of junk food and its consequences.