Year 9 - Lesson 9

Curriculum level:

4 - 5

Programme focus:

What the Treaty says.

Length of lesson:

45 – 90 minutes

Focus learning areas

• Articles of the Treaty.
• Breaches of the Treaty.
• Options of compensation.

Achievement objectives

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.

Learning outcomes

This programme will provide students with opportunities to:

• Develop a game, based on case studies where Māori groups have not been protected by the Crown, offering a range of solutions for audiences to choose from.
• Present a finished product to an audience, and explain the instructions.
• Debrief as a group, to discuss positives of their product, and any new suggestions.

Suggested activity

Create a game

• The groups will use this period to complete their game.
• They will then present their completed game to another group, or if possible another class.
• The group will need to work together presenting their final product, and explaining the instructions of the game to their target audience.
• At the completion of their presentation, the group will debrief discussing what worked well and what may need reworking.

Supporting information

The power game
http://www.treaty2u.govt.nz/Interactive/powergame/powergame_06.html