Topics - Mana Pasifika

wickED waiata

Ed has been asked to organise a powhiri for his teachers. Your task is to create a collection of songs that Ed and his friends can sing.

Organise yourself into a group of three or four.
Use the Internet or ask whanau and friends for the words and music to a well-known waiata.
Use PowerPoint to create a new slide.
Write the words to your waiata on this slide.
Record your waiata onto PowerPoint.
- Select Insert > Movies and Sounds > Record Sounds.
Send your slide to ed@tki.org.nz

Your slide may even end up in wickED Waiata, our online waiata collection.

First haircut

Wiki has been invited to her cousin's hair-cutting ceremony in Niue. She is not sure what it will be like and is a little nervous. Can you write a postcard to Wiki, which includes five facts about the ceremony?

Use paint to create your postcard outline. Draw a picture of something about Niue on one side of the postcard. Leave the other side blank. Save your postcard.
Insert the postcard into Word (Insert > Picture > From File).
Insert a text box into the blank space of your postcard.
Write five facts about the ceremony. Use the School Journal article First haircut (Part 4 No3 1998) for help.
Send your postcard to wiki@tki.org.nz

Time warp

While exploring his grandad's attic, Ed discovers a time machine. He carefully turns the dial to the year 2030.

Imagine you are Ed. You have just arrived on the island of Tuvalu and it's 2030. What effect has global warming had on the island? Record notes about what you see into your hand held computer so you can warn people about the dangers when you return to 2002.

Use the Global Eye website to help you find out about global warming on the Tuvalu Islands.
Download your hand held computer.
Type your message into the hand held computer's digital display.
Send your finished message to ed@tki.org.nz.

A night with the stars

Tipani is so excited! She has been invited backstage at the première (opening) of a new movie. She knows there will be heaps of famous people there, including Jonah Lomu and Tamati Te Nohotu

You have been asked to make the identification cards the celebrities will use at the première.

Check out this identification card. Follow this layout when you create your own design.
Choose a celebrity from the list above.
Record the information about the celebrity on the identification card.
Create a picture of the celebrity in paint.
Send the card to tipani@tki.org.nz.

Talking book

Myths and legends are passed on from generation to generation. Your task is to retell a famous Pacific Island or Māori legend in your own words.

If you are at the study support centres, you will be able to join a phone conference, and listen to Wiremu Grace retell a famous Pacific Island or Māori legend.

Listen to the legend retold by Wiremu Grace.
Organise yourself into a group of four.
Ask each team member to illustrate one scene in the story.
Use PowerPoint to record your group's story as a talking book.
- Create a new PowerPoint presentation with four or five slides.
- Insert the illustrations your team has created into the slides.
- Add narration to each slide. Select Insert > Movies and Sounds > Record Sounds.
Create a title page for your PowerPoint.
Send the PowerPoint to ed@tki.org.nz.

Wiki travels around the Pacific

Wiki is navigating her way around the Pacific in a double hulled canoe like her Polynesian ancestors did many years ago.

Use the FactMonster website to help you find the names of the places she visited.

First she travelled to the capital city of Tahiti in French Polynesia.
Then she visited the capital city of Rarotonga / The Cook Islands.
She then sailed to the capital city of Niue
Then she sailed to Fiji and visited the capital city there.
She travelled to Tokelau and visited an island starting with 'A'.
Email your answers to wiki@tki.org.nz

E haerēre ana a Wiki i Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa

E whakatere ana a Wiki i tōna waka, huri noa i Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, pērā i ōna tīpuna i ngā wā o mua.

Whakamahia te pae whakaata o FactMonster hei āwhina i a koe ki te rapu i ngā ingoa o ngā wāhi i tau ai a Wiki.

I te tuatahi ka haere ia ki te taone matua o Tahiti, i roto o Ngā Motu here o Wiwi.
Kātahi ka haere ia ki te taone matua o Rarotonga/Ngā Kuki Airāni.
Ka whiti atu ki te taone matua o Niue.
Tae atu ki Whītī, ki te taone matua o reira.
Ka haere ia ki Tokerau ki te tiro i tētahi moutere, ko tōna ingoa e tīmata ana me te pū 'A'.
Imerahia mai o whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz

Traditional Samoan tattoo

While Wiki was in Samoa she saw the traditional tattoo worn by many people.

Design your own tattoo.
Using this website answer these questions about traditional Samoan tattoo.
- What is the name of a traditional Samoan tattoo worn by a man?
- What is the name of a traditional Samoan tattoo worn by a woman?
Using the paint tools create your design.
Email it to wiki@tki.org.nz

Ngā Tā moko tawhito o Hamoa. E rima ngā piro mō tēnei mahinga.

I te wā i Hamoa a Wiki, ka kite a ia i te nui o te tangata e mau ana i ngā ta moko.

Hangāia tōu ake moko.
Mā te whakamahi i tēnei pae whakaata whakautuhia ēnei pātai mō ngā tā moko o Hamoa.
- He aha te ingoa ake o te tā moko e mau ana i te tane?
- He aha te ingoa ake o te tā moko e mau ana i te wahine?
Whakamahia ngā taputapu peita ki te hanga i tō tā moko.
Imerahia mai o whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz.

Tā Moko

Go to the Moko website. Navigate the page to find out the answers to these questions:

Origins: Who was responsible for bringing moko to this world? Who is the partner of Ranginui?
Moko messages: What can the moko represent?
Geneology: What does the word hapu mean?
Qualification: Who sought after the gift of knowledge?

Email your answers to wiki@tki.org.nz