New Zealand Explorers Digital WebQuest

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Explore Polynesian and European exploration of Aotearoa with this comprehensive resource. Go paperless with our  New Zealand Explorers Digital WebQuest resource and dive deep into this important part of New Zealand’s collective history. Learn about Māui fishing up New Zealand, Pacific explorers such as Kupe, European explorers Tasman and Cook, the significance of navigator Tupaia, early meetings, and violence and conflict between Māori and Europeans.

This Google Slides resource includes 18 topics that weave through Aotearoa exploration, and 33 interactive, higher-order thinking follow-up tasks. Students hunt for information in the web links provided and use this information to complete the engaging activities.

This resource would also be suitable for Year Five-Year 8 learners. 

In this New Zealand Explorers Digital WebQuest resource you will receive:

1. 18 topics including web links and interactive activities

  • Prior Knowledge
  • Maui and the giant fish
  • Who was Kupe?
  • Waka Hourua
  • Polynesian Navigation
  • Who was Abel Tasman?
  • Who was Captain James Cook?
  • Captain Cook Diary Entry
  • Who was Tupaia?
  • The Endeavour
  • Meeting of Māori and Tasman
  • Meeting of Māori and Cook
  • Painted Hoe Article
  • Sixth Sense poem
  • Celebration or Commemoration Part One and Two
  • Where do you come from?

 

2. 33 unique Higher Order Thinking Activities based on Blooms Taxonomy and including a range of reading comprehension and writing strategies.

3. Full instructions on how to set up this Google Slides resource, and how to share it with your students.

4. Tips for using Google Slides for teachers AND students

5. Teacher Answer Key for applicable questions

 

Aotearoa New Zealand Curriculum Links:

Year 4-6: Whakapapa me te whanaungatanga | Culture and identity
  • Māori voyaging through the Pacific was deliberate and skilful and brought with it Pacific whakapapa and cultural identities. These identities were transformed over the centuries through adaptations to and relationships with the environment, and through the formation of hapū and iwi that eventually occupied Aotearoa New Zealand.
    • What stories do hapū and iwi tell about their whakapapa and their voyaging and exploration?

 

Year 4-6: Tūrangawaewae me te kaitiakitanga | Place and environment

  • People adapted their technologies and tools to the new environment of Aotearoa New Zealand.
    • How did mana whenua, early resource seekers, and settlers impact on the natural environment? How did mana whenua engage with early newcomers?

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