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Connected 2022 Level 2 – Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!

Connected 2022 Level 2 – Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!

This Level 2 Connected resource explores themes of first arrivals in Aotearoa New Zealand, the naming of places, journeying by waka across the Pacific, and the cultivation of kūmara. It focuses on changes to the name of Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay; on the skills, preparation, and knowledge needed to traverse the Pacific by waka; and on life in a papakāinga in the 1700s.

At times, Connected themes require the introduction of concepts that students at this curriculum level may not be able to fully understand. What matters at this stage is that students begin to develop understandings that they can grow over time. 

Series: Connected

Publication date: October 2022

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Tūranganui-a-Rua, Tūranganui-a-Maru, Tūranganui-a-Kiwa e!

Tūranganui-a-Rua, Tūranganui-a-Maru, Tūranganui-a-Kiwa e!

by Walton Walker (Ngāti Porou)

In 2019, Poverty Bay, just outside Gisborne on the east coast of the North Island, officially changed its name to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay. The change was significant for local iwi, who had long campaigned to return the original name to honour Kiwa, one of the original Polynesian navigators to discover the area, and to better reflect the communities living there. This article explores the rich history behind the names of the area through arrival stories and the recent decision to use a dual name.

Series: Connected 2022 Level 2 – Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!

Learning area: English, Social Sciences

Curriculum level: 2

Reading year level: 4

Category: Non-fiction

Topics: arrival, community, Cook, discovery, East Coast, Gisborne, Horouta, Kiwa, naming, maps, Pawa, petition, Poverty Bay, Tairāwhiti, tangata whenua, tūpuna, voyaging, waka

In: Connected 2022 Level 2 – Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!

Publication date: October 2022

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Journey of a Waka.

Journey of a Waka

This infographic explores how the tūpuna of Māori skilfully and deliberately navigated to Aotearoa New Zealand from East Polynesia over seven hundred years ago. It highlights who was on board the voyaging waka, their roles, how they survived the voyage, how they navigated, and what they brought with them.

Series: Connected 2022 Level 2 – Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!

Learning area: English, Social Sciences

Curriculum level: 2

Reading year level: 4

Category: Non-fiction

Topics: journeys, Māori oral histories, matauranga, migration, navigation, voyaging, waka

In: Connected 2022 Level 2 – Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!

Publication date: October 2022

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Grow Big.

Grow Big

by Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua); illustrations by Josh Morgan

This story gives readers a vivid picture of daily life in a northern kāinga in Te Ao Tawhito (the old world) around 1770. The story is told through the eyes of a child and is woven with details of traditional kūmara growing methods.

Series: Connected 2022 Level 2 – Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!

Learning area: English, Social Sciences

Curriculum level: 2

Reading year level: 4

Category: Fiction

Topics: food, gardening, growing, kai, kūmara, matauranga, Ngāti Wai, Northland, raumati, takurua, tūpuna, whakataukī

In: Connected 2022 Level 2 – Ki te hoe! | Let’s get going!

Publication date: October 2022

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