Essential Skills
Communication:

• Convey and receive information, instruction, ideas and feelings appropriately and effectively in a range of different cultural, language, and social contexts.

Information:

• Identify, describe, and interpret different points of view, and distinguish fact from opinion.

Social and Co-operative:

• Develop good relationships with others and work in co-operative ways to achieve common goals
• Participate appropriately in a range of social and cultural settings
• Acknowledge individual differences and demonstrate respect for the rights of all people.

Problem Solving:

• Think critically, creatively, reflectively and logically
• Analyse problems from a variety of different perspectives
• Make connections and establish relationships.

Achievement Objectives Explore, view and respond to Māori performing arts Investigate the contexts, purposes and styles of Māori and Pacific Island music and dance Investigate the functions of objects and images in Māori and Pacific Island culture Identify contexts in which Māori and Pacific Island objects and images are made, viewed and valued Research key artists and their work in Aotearoa New Zealand society.

Specific Learning Outcomes
Students will:

• Locate information on traditional Māori performing arts
• Respond to ideas about contemporary Māori performing arts
• Investigate the history of Māori dance and music
• Make links to understand better other cultural groups living in Aotearoa New Zealand
• View and respond to images in Māori and Pacific Island culture
• Locate information about Māori art - traditional and contemporary
• Become familiar with some key people involved in nurturing and maintenance of the cultural heritage of Māori and Samoan people
• Research information relating to your own bi-cultural / multi-cultural school setting
• Discover ways to use the multicultural features of this resource

Links to other Learning Areas

English

Strand: Oral Language

Achievement Objectives:

• Listen to texts, identify the purposes and recall and respond to the main ideas in a well structured, imaginative way
  
• Speak confidently and clearly in small and large groups to recount experiences and events, and communicate information, ideas and opinions, respecting and responding to others.
  

Written language

Achievement Objectives:

• Discuss and convey meanings in written texts, exploring relevant experiences and other points of view
  
• Gather, select, record, interpret and present coherent, structured information from a variety of sources, using different technologies and explaining the processes used.

Visual language

Achievement Objectives:

• Combine verbal and visual features to communicate information, ideas, or narrative through drama, video, computer, or other technologies and media
  
• Identify important features of verbal and visual language and use them to create particular meanings and effects.

Social Studies

Strand: Culture and Heritage

Achievement Objectives:

• Why and how individuals and groups pass on and sustain their culture and heritage
  
• The impact of the spread of new technology and ideas on culture and heritage
  
• Ways in which cultural and national identity develop and are maintained
  
• The effects of cultural interaction on cultures and societies.

Technology

Strand: Technology and Society

Achievement Objectives:

• Identify and compare the range of factors and attitudes that promote or constrain a current technological development in the wider community
  
• Investigate and describe the present impact and the possible future effects, of some instances of rapidly changing technologies such as entertainment.

Physical health and Well Being

Strand: Personal Health and Physical Development.

Achievement Objective:

• Analyse attitudes and values and take actions that contribute to their personal identity and self worth.

Strand: Healthy Communities and Environments.

Achievement Objective:

• Understand the interdependence between people and their surroundings and use this understanding to help create healthy environments.