Here you will find a range of teaching resources, digital resources & inquiry units that our education team have created.
We have also compiled some useful links from YouTube, Te Ara, NZ History Online and the National Library so you may delve deeper into the story of Waitangi, the place, and Te Tiriti | The Treaty.
Our Education team has created a variety of hands-on teaching and learning resources to support teachers and students, both at school and at home.
When rangatira Māori signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi, some of them used a part of their tā moko (facial tattoo) as their tohu (mark or sign). Use this activity for students to create their own tohu. What tohu would you design to represent yourself or your whānau?
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori and Mahuru Māori is a great time to explore the significance in Māori culture of tapa whenua – naming places, to record history and describe places. An inquiry unit for upper primary to lower secondary school students.
Help your students explore their identity as it is represented inside te wharenui; an inquiry unit to use with students from upper primary to lower secondary schools.
Waka play an important role in our lives in Aotearoa New Zealand. This site contains inquiry units which can be used individually or combined into one longer inquiry unit.
This resource provides educators (including parents) with practical hands-on activities to explore Matariki, linking to different Learning Areas of the New Zealand Curriculum. You can also download Digital Learning resources around Matariki from our Digital Learning page.
This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to te Tiriti o Waitangi | the Treaty of Waitangi’s signing on 6th Feb 1840. We recommend you watch the entirety of each clip before showing students, as some content may not be age appropriate. Videos from www.nzonscreen.com
Learn more about the Treaty of Waitangi, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the important events and documents leading up to the signing.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi, The Treaty of Waitangi, was written in English and translated into Māori. Examine and compare to discover the key differences between these two versions.
Discover the 1831 petition from 13 chiefs to King William IV about lawlessness.
In 1835 Northern chiefs signed a Declaration of Independence, asserting their mana and sovereignty over New Zealand. Explore this document here and discover what led up to this event.
Do you know Hongi Hika from Hōne Heke?
A selection of key Māori & European figures associated with the making of the Treaty of Waitangi and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Discover navigators and explorers, explore first meetings between different peoples and learn more about immigration to Aotearoa New Zealand
Materials provided by the National Library.
First meetings between Polynesian cultures (particularly Māori) and European explorers.
Materials provided by the National Library.
The age of exploration, and voyaging, famous explorers, and Kupe’s discovery of New Zealand.
Materials provided by the National Library.
Starting with the arrival of Māori, explore migrants, refugees, journeys, transport and what has made New Zealand a popular migrant nation.
Materials provided by the National Library.
Famous New Zealanders, heroes, inventors, scientists, singers, writers, sportsmen, sportswomen, musicians and artists.
Materials provided by the National Library.
1769-1914; includes European discovery of New Zealand, contact with Māori, New Zealand wars, Pākehā colonisation, social life, economy, politics and major events of the time.
Learn more about the Māori involvement in conflict during the New Zealand Wars and in international conflicts overseas
Starting in 1845 at Kororāreka (Russell) a series of campaigns involving some Māori tribes and government forces.
Events around Anzac Day, as well as the formation of the ANZACs, and how the Gallipoli campaign became culturally significant for New Zealand and Australian societies.
Discover more about the recipients of the commonwealth’s highest military decoration.