Description
We’ve put together a set of integrated reading and history resources that explore a range of Aotearoa New Zealand Protests across history. Your learners will explore momentous and powerful protests such as the Māori Land March, the Bastion Point occupation, NZ’s Nuclear-Free protests, the Springbok Tour Protests, the invasion at Parihaka, and more!
Our New Zealand Protests Reading and History Bundle includes the following resources:
- New Zealand Protests Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions: Protests of the 1970s and 1980s
- NZ Protests Reading Task Cards: Explore 14 Protests from NZ’s history
- NZ Protests Digital Reading Activities: Protests of the 1970s and 1980s
- NZ Protests Classroom Display Materials: Poster, Timeline, Vocabulary Word Wall
Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum Links:
Tino rangatiratanga me te kāwanatanga | Government and organisation
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Year 5-6: Governments have selectively supported or excluded people through processes associated with voting rights, access to education, health, and welfare provision, reflecting prevailing public attitudes of the time. Often equitable treatment has been sought by people, including Māori, Chinese, women, children, and disabled people.
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How, over time, have various New Zealand governments restricted voting rights? How have people advocated for their rights? How did the Government respond to the hardships of the Great Depression?
Whakapapa me te whanaungatanga | Culture and identity
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Year 7-8: Mid-twentieth-century Māori migration to New Zealand cities occurred at an unprecedented pace and scale, disrupting the whakapapa of te reo and tikanga and depopulating papa kāinga. New approaches to being Māori and retaining iwi values and practices were created and debated. Movements to reassert Māori language, culture, and identity arose throughout the country.
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What were the challenges Māori faced after the Second World War? What do hapū and iwi say about their relocation to the cities and the reasons for it? What has this meant for their identity as Māori?
Tino rangatiratanga me te kāwanatanga | Government and organisation
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Year 7-8: Mana was central to all political and economic relationships in traditional Māori society and has continued to shape internal and external interactions.
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How was mana expressed in relationships between iwi and between iwi and Pākehā?
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How did iwi co-opt new ideas and technologies in the pursuit of mana, and what were some of the impacts of that?
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How did diseases brought by Europeans impact mana?
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How is mana evident in Māori protest actions?
