Section outline

  • Kia ora...Students and welcome to Global Studies. My name is Mrs Singh and I will be your Global Studies teacher for this year.Our Context for this term is on Our Place . For today, we will be connecting with each other, by expressing our Mihimihi.

    Maori

    pepeha



    This is to help build relations and help us connect better with each other.

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

      Understood our learning context by making links to ourselves/ friends and community

    Understood my immigration story and mihimihi by creating a visual that describes me

    Activities:

    1) Let us brains storm our learning context and come up with ideas that link with us  and our community eg: We are all in this together as it is our first day at school? Discus our excitement/ fears/ expectations and values we share!

    2) Write down what are you most important values and skills.Let us also examine the meaning of key words like respect/ religion/ culture/ traditions/ heritage/ immigration/ changes and adaptation

    3)Reflect on your immigration story .Did you or you parents immigrate from another country? Why did you leave? What re the various values and practices of of culture you were exposed too from your birth country or parents birth country? Is it different or similar to the values of living in New Zealand. 

    4) Think of all the values you consider as an import part of who you are are that has been shown and taught to you by your family, community and school. Using the information draw a plan of the different symbols, images, colours, flags, that make up your unique identity.

    5) Think of a way you would like to showcase your cultural identity . For an example, design a  digital papehe/ from your culture  tat show your cultural side vs your Kiwiana side. Or perhaps it is integration of both your culture and new adopted Kiwi culture embodied as one. May be you only share one side of a culture than the other. 

    4) This can be created in various ways e.g.: The face mask or a bandana. However, I will allow your to express your cultural identity using any model or visual you like.

    5) Once you have completed this, share your pepeha with the class. 


    6) See images on the white board n cultural expressions: e.g.: flags, music instruments, cultural food, important traditional clothing, religious symbols, clots, phrases, dance form, values: respect, compassion, care, support and understanding.


    Resources:


    Mihi - introductions, Māori ki Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou ...


    Homework:
    Write here...


    EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING...my immigration story, understanding who we are and where we came from
    • We are EXPLORING...early arrival of Mari people into New Zealand and their cultural practices
    • We are EXPLORING...British explorers( Missionaries and Whalers) and the effects of colonisation( ie wars in NZ).
    • Also exploring the Treaty of Waitangi.