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TEACHER Elise Gordon
and Kaye Webber
YEAR
3-4 |
LEVEL
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DURATION
2 weeks |
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Strand Achievement Objectives to be Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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Social Organisation
How participation within groups involves both responsibilities and rights
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- Identify the rights guaranteed by the Treaty of Waitangi to both
tangata whenua and Pakeha
- Describe the responsibilities people have when entering into a contract or agreement
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Supporting Achievement Objectives
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Learning Outcomes
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Time, Continuity and Change
How past events changed aspects of the lives of communities
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- Explain what changed for tangata whenua and Pakeha after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed
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Processes
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Learning Outcomes
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Inquiry
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Collect and record information
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Values Exploration
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Explain their own values position
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Requirements
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| Settings: | New Zealand |
| Perspectives: | Bicultural |
| Essential Learning About New Zealand Society (ELANZS): |
- The Treaty of Waitangi, its significance as the founding document of New Zealand, how it has been interpreted over time and how it is applied to current systems, policies and events.
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TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your
students, and to fit the time available:
- Thinking about Rights and Responsibilities
Discuss with children the idea of rights and responsibilities. Have
children think about what rights they have as part of their family as well
as what responsibilities. Record these ideas on a chart under the
headings "Rights" and "Responsibilities". What other places do we
have certain rights or responsibilities? Offer suggestions of
sports groups, school, cultural groups, at church, at the Marae,
at Grandma's place. Use a think, pair, share strategy for children
to discuss their ideas. Have children record two examples of rights and
responsibilities using sentence starters.
"At .......... I have a right to ......................."
"At .......... I have a responsibility to ..............."
Display these around the classroom.
For more ideas and information on
teaching about rights and responsibilities.
- Class Contract
Make a class contract with the children for classroom rules.
Children offer ideas for the rules they would like to have in their class.
Discuss the need to agree on these rules as we will have to abide by them
for the rest of the year. Design a contract listing the rules that have
been suggested and agreed upon. Have children either sign their name
at the bottom of the contract or add their thumb-print to say that
they agree to abide by the contract.
Assessment Activity 1
Assessment Schedule 1
Discuss what our class contract entitles us to. What rights and
responsibilities does this contract guarantee us in the classroom? Children complete the
graphic organiser to show these rights and responsibilities.
- Waitangi Day
Brainstorm all the different holidays we celebrate in New Zealand.
Some Ideas
Discuss why we celebrate Waitangi Day.
- Why do we celebrate Waitangi Day on the same date every year?
- When did Waitangi Day start?
- What is special about this day?
- What happens on this day?
- How do our families spend Waitangi Day?
If you are teaching this unit near Waitangi Day have students make a class
Uniform
Pictograph showing how different people in the class spent
Waitangi Day. You may need to help the children pick categories to use to
build their graph.
Make a 2Ps and a WC chart about Waitangi Day.
- Where is Waitangi?
Find out where Waitangi is on a map. What can we can we tell about this
place from the map? Find other important places, such as
your town, nearest city and Wellington (Capital). Use this activity
as a chance to develop children's mapping skills.
- The House That Jack Built - Picture Analysis
Read the class the story The House that Jack Built by Gavin Bishop.
As you read the story discuss what is happening in the pictures. This
book has been designed combining the words
of the traditional nursery rhyme with pictures illustrating the
colonisation of New Zealand.
- Introduce The Treaty
of Waitangi
Look at an
original and the
transcript.
- Events leading up to the treaty
Read The arrival of the Pakeha
in New Zealand.
Use the information to make a flow chart by putting the following captions
in sequence and illustrate each event. This can be done in poster form or
on the flow chart provided.
- The Treaty of Waitangi "Te Tiriti O Waitangi" was signed
on the 6th February 1840.
- Europeans and Maori lived peacefully trading with one another.
- Copies of the Treaty were taken to other places around New Zealand
so that more signatures could be made.
- Maori lived in New Zealand on tribal land.
- The first Europeans began arriving in New Zealand. They
were sealers, whalers, traders and missionaries.
- The New Zealand company sends ships of European settlers
to New Zealand for planned settlement.
- Law and order became an issue as
problems broke out between Maori and Pakeha.
- The Treaty of Waitangi became the founding document for New Zealand.
- The Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi
Read and discuss this with the class.
- A Big Day at Waitangi
In groups, students prepare a short play or role
play using the information in a section of
The Signing of The Treaty
of Waitangi and in this picture.
After performing the role plays, discuss what they have learnt about the
Treaty of Waitangi. Make a class chart showing what we know, what we think
and the questions we have.
- Similarities and Differences
How was the Treaty that they signed similar to our class
contract and how was it different? In pairs complete a
venn diagram showing these ideas. A
completed example is available for
ideas.
- What happened after the treaty was signed?
Create a story board that outlines the story of Parihaka.
- Treaty Rights and Responsibilities
Assessment Activity 2
Assessment Schedule 2
On the Rights Chart identify the rights that were guaranteed to both Maori
and Pakeha under the Treaty of Waitangi and explain how these rights can
be protected for people today.
- What does the Treaty mean today?
Read through the information sheet about
what the treaty means to people today.
Write a statement about what the treaty means to you today and give one action you are able to do to help uphold the treaty.
RESOURCES
Electronic
Print
- New Zealand 1990 Commission (1990) Belonging Here - Windows on A Changing World. (Kit)
- Bishop, G. (1999). The House That Jack Built. Scholastic: Auckland.
- Smythe, K. (2000). A Story of the Treaty. Developmental Publications Ltd.
- Boon, K. (1999). The Treaty of Waitangi. Waiatarua Publishing: Auckland.
- Locke, E. (1988). Two Peoples, One Land: A history of Aotearoa/New Zealand. GP Publications.
- Ryan, P.M. (1989). The Revised Dictionary of Modern Maori. Heinemann: Auckland.
- Boon, K. (1998). The Maori Before the Europeans Came to New Zealand. Waiatarua Publishing: Auckland.
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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