1. What is Digistore?
Digitised Items
Learning Objects
Digitised items
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2. The Māori resources catalogue
Step 1
Go to the Digistore wiki
http://digistore.wikispaces.com
Step 2 Step 3
Go to the Māori related Click on the image
resources page
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3. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Matching activities
Match Te Reo Māori descriptions to the pictures.
He manu tukutuku
raupō tēnei.
He hīnaki tēnei
hei hopu tuna.
Images reproduced courtesy of the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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4. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Repetitive engagement with Te Reo Māori games after using the equivalent
English ones.
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5. Using māori resources in the classroom
Place based education / time frame inquiry
Māori school in the 1950s - Ruatoria on the East Coast
Reproduced courtesy of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o
te Kāwanatanga
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6. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Technology - Māori technology study
Image reproduced courtesy of the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
This is a Māori bird snare. How do you think it worked? Can you create
another simple design using wood and a cord that could catch birds?
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7. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Research and inquiry – use in children’s inquiry projects
Traditional Māori buildings
This is a Māori food
storehouse. It is on
poles to stop animals
eating the food.
Image reproduced courtesy of the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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8. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Art - Understanding Māori art in context
Image reproduced courtesy of the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
This is an example of rare materials (the albino kiwi feathers) being
used to make cloaks - the more decorative and rare the cloak
materials, the more likely that it was created for a person of high rank
such as a chief.
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9. Using Māori resources in the classroom
As a hook for a new unit or piece of writing
Questions taken from the Library of Congress primary sources analysis tool
Describe what you see. When do you think it was
What do you notice first? taken?
What people and objects Who do you think was
are shown? the audience for this
How are they arranged? photo?
What is the physical What can you learn from
setting? examining this photo?
Why do you think this What’s missing from this
photo was taken? photo?
Image reproduced courtesy of Alexander
Turnbull Library
Beneath my fingers, the flax basket was beginning to form. It was
going to be ready in time for …
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10. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Visual literacy – how picture book illustrations convey messages
Reproduced courtesy of Random House New Zealand, Gavin Bishop, Te Tai Tamariki
Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s Literature Trust
Hatupatu is similar in scale to the other pets in the illustration but
dramatically smaller than the bird woman which makes him appear
defenceless and vulnerable.
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