Teacher-only planning companion for Ngā Waka Migration and Adaptation. Use this page to keep migration inquiry grounded in adaptation, navigation, mātauranga Māori, and historical decision-making rather than vague origin stories.
The strongest discussion comes from asking what mātauranga Māori and preparation made movement possible. That keeps the handout analytical rather than romanticised.
TM-SS-3-ANZH-U1: Use this resource when students are learning how people responded to changing conditions, moved, settled, and adapted in ways that shaped life in Aotearoa.
The route and planning prompts make migration a question of environmental knowledge, collective strategy, and adaptation rather than only chronology.
Best used when the unit needs historical movement linked to real decision-making.
NZC-SS-4-4: Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people.
The migration pūrākau planning section asks students to notice how knowledge, values, and collective memory travel with people and shape later community life.
Useful when kaiako want more than surface retelling.
TM-SS-3-K1: How different systems function in Aotearoa and globally — migration decisions connect environment, navigation, food planning, and social organisation.
Push students to explain which systems mattered most: navigation systems, food systems, or social systems. That lifts the handout above map labelling.
Strongest when followed by a scarcity or adaptation reflection.