Strong fit
Systems shape how people and groups organise themselves: rights,
responsibilities, power, fairness.
How this handout aligns
The cause-and-effect table shows students how a legal system changes power, decision-making, and
fairness in concrete ways rather than as an abstract concept.
Systems and power
Rights and fairness
Social Studies
Useful before or during wider Treaty, land, or colonisation inquiry work.
Strong fit
Interpreting past experiences, decisions, and actions using historical
evidence while taking account of context and consequence.
How this handout aligns
The timeline, system-change prompts, and fair-process reflection ask students to interpret what
changed, why it mattered, and how historical systems continue to shape the present.
Historical consequence
Cause and effect
Aotearoa histories
Strong when kaiako want students to make causal links instead of merely
listing events.
Aotearoa lens
Teaching about whenua and law in Aotearoa should foreground Māori
relationships to land, mana, and collective authority, not just state legal categories.
How to teach this well
Frame the lesson through what the Court changed and whose framework it privileged. This helps
students see colonisation as a systems story, not just a sequence of isolated bad events.
Whenua
Rangatiratanga
Mātauranga Māori
Best used before redress or Tribunal lessons so students understand what
later claims are responding to.