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  • Week 9 

    Mātauranga Māori:

    Creating Your Own Public Holiday: A Powerpoint Project To be Completed in PAIRS

    Imagine that New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern has been told that our class has been studying Mātauranga Māori. So far this term we have learned about everything from Māori plants and fungi that have been used for medicine and food, to traditional ways of doing things like telling the time of season and when to plant crops by looking at the stars.

    Based on all that we have learned about Māori knowledge, she would like you to come up with a proposal for a new Māori public holiday. It cannot be the Matariki as that one is already taken. Look over your notes and everything we have studied – and look at other aspects of Māori knowledge and come up with your own idea for a public holiday.


    1. Name of the new public Holiday

    2. Explain why it should be celebrated

    3. Describe it.

    4. What day of the year would it be held on and why

    5. What aspect of Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) would it focus on?

    6. Include at least 2 images with captions.

    *This must be done on a Powerpoint. A minimum of 6 slides and a Maximum of 10.


    **Somewhere it must be noted who created which slides.

    I would like to encourage students to use not only Google, but other databases as well.

    See the accompanying document in the lesson – “Possible Information Sources for Global Studies Research.”