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Science in the New Zealand Curriculum
APPENDIX 1:
GLOSSARY OF MAORI VOCABULARY
MāORI AND SCIENCE
Tikanga Māori
Whānau
Te reo Māori |
Māori protocol
family
Māori language |
MAKING SENSE OF THE NATURE OF SCIENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO TECHNOLOGY
Level 3
Kete
Level 5
Kuia |
basket
older woman |
DEVELOPING SCIENTIFIC SKILLS AND ATTITUDES
MAKING SENSE OF THE LIVING WORLD
Level 1
Te ngahere
Kōhanga
Level 2
Ngā kaimoana
Ngā kararehe
Aotearoa
Ngā pūngawerewere
Te Ao
Tangaroa
Te aitanga a Tāne
Level 3
Taha moana
Te ngahere
Ngā ngarara
Te aitanga a Tāne
Level 4
Waiora
Tangaroa
Te ngahere
Ngā kai Māori
Māramataka Māori
Ngā kaimoana
Kuia
Koroua
Kanga wai
Kumara tao
Kānga waru
Parāoa rēwena
Level 5
Waiora
Whakapapa
Te ara o te tangata
Level 6
Te ngahere
Tōku whānau
Whanaungatanga
Whakapapa
Rongoā
Level 7
Whakapapa
Tōku whānau
Te ngahere a Tāne
Tāne |
the forest/bush
nest
seafood
animals
New Zealand
spiders
the world
the sea / sea god
Tane's children / descendants
seaside or seashore
the forest / bush
insects
Tane's children / descendants
health
the sea / sea god
the forest / bush
Māori food
Māori calendar
seafood
older woman
older man
fermented corn
dried sweet potato
cornbread
potato yeast bread
health
genealogy
human characteristics
the forest / bush
my family
relationship / family ties
genealogy
my family
genealogy
my family
Tane's forest
god of forest |
MAKING SENSE OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD
Level 1
Pūoru
Ko ahau
Ranginui
Tangaroa
Ngā take o te ao
Kōrero
Level 2
Ngā mahi
Waka
Ko ahau
Te wera, te matao
Level 3
Tāwhirimatea
Mīhini hou
Rerenga
Level 4
Pōtaka
Heketanga
Mīhini hou
Level 5
Waea kōrero
Pouaka whakaata
Ngā mīhini
Level 6
Waiora
Āniwaniwa
Hāngi
Level 7
Mīhini hou
Mahi ngahau
Level 8
Mīhini hou |
sound
me
the sky / sky father
the sea / sea god
things pertaining to the world
communication
tasks
transport
me
heat/cold
god of elements / weather
modern machinery
flight
tops
descent of a hill
modern machinery
telephone
television
machinery
health
rainbow
steam / ground cooking (Māori method)
modern machinery
games / fun activities
modern machinery |
MAKING SENSE OF THE MATERIAL WORLD
Level 1
Kāinga
Rēwena
Kai
Hī ika
Level 2
Taha moana
Hāngi
Ngā toa hokomaha
Level 3
Kai tohungia
Ngā tae
Ngā rā makariri
Kaumātua
Hāngi
Muka
Level 4
Taha tinana
Papatūanuku
Level 5
Ngā take o te ao
Harakeke
Oranga tinana
Level 6
Pounamu
Toa hoko pāraoa
Ngā kai oopiro
Piupiu
Level 7
Ngā rongoa o Aotearoa
Level 8
Ngā toa hokomaha
Miti tahu
Ngā whakaahua whakaroto
Kumara tao
I roto māra |
home
Māori bread traditionally cooking in camp oven
food
fishing
seaside / seashore
steam / ground cooking (Māori method)
supermarkets
preserved food
dyes
cold weather, cold days
elder
steam / ground cooking (Māori method)
prepared fibre of flax
pertaining to the body
Earth mother
things pertaining to the world
flax
health
greenstone
bakery
fermented foods
flax shirt
Māori medicine
supermarkets
cooked meat perserved in fat
X-ray
cornbread
in the garden |
MAKING SENSE OF PLANET EARTH AND BEYOND
Level 1
Te ngahere
Mahi kai
Tangaroa
Ine
Te Marama
Level 2
Te ao kōwhatu
Pounamu
Marae
I te timatatanga
Level 3
Whakatere
Pakiwaitara o Ngatoro-i-rangi
Ngā momo wai
Te Ātea
Ngāwhā
Tapu
Wai
Awa
Puna
Level 4
Papatūanuku
Rangi
Te ao kōwhatu
Level 5
I roto ātea
Level 6
Pounamu
Papatūanuku
Rangi
Kaumatua
Level 7
Ngā take o te ao
Level 8
Ngā pukapuka pakiwaitara o pūtaiao |
the forest / bush
planting / preparing food
the sea / sea god
measure / compare
the Moon
the stone age
greenstone
meeting ground
in the beginning
navigate
stories of Ngatoro-i-rangi
variety of liquids
space / Universe
geysers
sacred
water
river
spring
Earth mother
sky father
the stone age
in space
greenstone
Earth mother
sky father
elder
things pertaining to the world;
books about legends, and folklore related to science |
APPENDIX 2:
Rāhui
Tangata whenua |
ban
local people |
Note: To extend their own vocabulary of Māori words and to identify other contexts suitable for science units, teachers will find it useful to refer to Tihé Mauri Ora! Māori Language, Junior Classes to Form 2, Syllabus for Schools, Ministry of Education, Wellington, 1990, and Nga Kupu Tikanga Pútaiao: A Selective Māori Science Vocabulary, Ministry of Education, Wellington, 1992.
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