Aotearoa New Zealand’s relationship with the Pacific

Resources about Aotearoa NZ’s relationship with the Pacific

These curiosity cards use images and fertile questions to spark student inquiry:

• Cross-cultural identity (TMCC16)

• Dawn raids (TMCC15)

• Multiculturalism (TMCC17).

These topics from Topic Explorer have quality, curated resources, including websites, images, videos, books and more:

• Climate change and the Pacific

• Immigration to Aotearoa New Zealand

• Nuclear-free Aotearoa New Zealand and the Rainbow Warrior bombing

• The dawn raids

• The Pacific: Culture, history and geography

• The Pacific Islands in the 21st century.

These entries from Many Answers guide students to reliable and trustworthy resources:

• Dawn raids — senior secondary

• Nuclear-free New Zealand — senior secondary

• Pacific Islands — senior primary

• Rainbow Warrior bombing 1985 — senior secondary.

Te Kupenga online has stories with images from the Alexander Turnbull Library and related resources to inspire student learning:

• Colour, movement and music

• ‘Educate to Liberate’

• From Tokelau to Wellington

• Going anti-nuclear

• Mean money

• Sāmoa mō Sāmoa!

• The dawn raids.

Some popular books related to this topic include:

• Fast Talking PI by Selina Tusitala Marsh, 2009

• Feasts and Festivals: A Celebration of Pacific Island Culture in New Zealand by Glenn Jowitt, 2002

• Pacific Star: 3NZ Division in the South Pacific in World War II by Reg Newell, 2015

• Pacific War: New Zealand and Japan 1941–45 by Matthew Wright, 2003

• Tangata o Le Moana: New Zealand and the People of the Pacific edited by Sean Mallon, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai, and Damon Salesa, 2012

• The Deadly Sky by David Hill, 2014.

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Other resources and tools

Teaching and learning resources — free online teaching and learning resources, tools and guides.

Tools for primary source analysis — designed for ākonga (students) from years 1 to 13 in Aotearoa NZ schools.