Year 10 - Lessons 6 & 7

Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:

Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments.
Understand that events have causes and effects.
Understand how the ideas and actions of people in the past have had a significant impact on people’s lives.
Understand how the Treaty of Waitangi is responded to differently by people in different times and different places.

This programme will provide students with opportunities to:

Research the Waitangi Tribunal.
Explore the claim process between Māori groups, the Waitangi Tribunal, and the Crown.

Suggested activity

These sections will provide the students with more understanding about the role of the Tribunal.

Ask the students to research the claims process in groups.

Ask them to prepare a presentation using the information they gather. Options could include a role play, posters or a power-point presentation.

Waitangi Tribunal website
http://www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz/

Harris, Aroha

Hīkoi: Forty Years of Māori Protest

Huia Publishers, Wellington, 2004

Moon, Paul, and Biggs, Peter

The Treaty and Its Time: The Illustrated History

Resource Books, Auckland, 2004

Orange, Claudia

An Illustrated History of The Treaty of Waitangi, Revised edition

Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2004