A collection of year 11 and year 13 history activities written by teachers for teachers using the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography http://www.dnzb.govt.nz.

Learning activities for year 11

Health Shakers
This year 11 history activity is designed to help students focus on an outstanding woman as an agent of social change and to consider the impact of outstanding women in public, community and family health care.

History Detective
This year 11 history activity is designed to help students make biographical notes on key people in New Zealand's history. It is assumed that the background to a specific topic will have been taught and that the students have developed a list of names to research.

Kiwi Mates
This year 11 history activity is designed to help students select relevant evidence for key personalities, their positions and viewpoint(s) over the ANZUS Treaty 1951 and to describe how ANZUS was important in changing New Zealand's international relations and identity.

Māori and Pākehā Race Relations
This year 11 history activity is designed to introduce students to the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and may also be a useful revision activity.

Learning activities for year 13

Enterprise and Achievement
This year 13 history activity is designed to help students understand the development of key industries and other economic activities that contributed to the development of the New Zealand economy. It is expected that students will have done some background work on this topic in class.

Harvest and Hardship
This year 13 history activity is designed to help students understand the way relations developed between Māori and Pākehā during 1800–1840. It is expected that students will have done some background work on this topic in class.

Migration and Social Issues
This year 13 activity is designed to introduce students to the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and may also be a useful revision activity. It requires some background knowledge of History, Part C, Society and Attitudes.

Northern War 1845–1846
This year 13 history activity is designed to help students examine some of the ways Māori and Pākehā interacted with each other during the nineteenth century with particular reference to the origins and consequences of the New Zealand Wars 1845–1892. It focuses specifically at the Northern War 1845–1846.

Settlement and Society
This year 13 history activity is designed to help students understand the aspirations and achievements of different nineteenth century groups of migrants to New Zealand. It is expected that students will have completed some background work on this topic in class. In particular they need to be familiar with the ideas of Miles Fairburn, Caroline Daley, Rollo Arnold, Jock Phillips, and Stephen Eldred-Grigg about the nature of nineteenth century New Zealand society.

Society and Attitudes
This year 13 history activity is designed to help students activity examine the struggle for women's suffrage as a major social issue in nineteenth century New Zealand by considering some of the key personalities involved in the issue. It examines the arguments for and against women attaining the vote, and the overall position of women in nineteenth century New Zealand society.

William Colenso Eagerness and Ego
This year 13 history activity is designed to help students select some relevant evidence as part of a research process. Students will create an outline that can be used for a more in-depth study of a nineteenth century missionary, and to examine relationships between them and local iwi in nineteenth century New Zealand. It is expected that students will have completed work on historical inquiry method in class.