Teacher-only planning companion for Unit 2 Guided Inquiry Project: Te Tiriti, Justice, and Counter-Narrative. Use it to keep inquiry purposeful, evidence-rich, and culturally grounded.
Inquiry quality rises or falls on the question. Conference the question before students disappear into source gathering. That is the highest-leverage teacher move in this project.
Interpreting past experiences, decisions, and actions and making informed judgements using historical evidence and context.
The inquiry workbook structures question formation, evidence gathering, comparison of perspectives, and the construction of a historically grounded counter-narrative.
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-ANZH-D1`.
Systems shape how people and groups organise themselves: rights, responsibilities, power, and fairness.
The inquiry pathways keep students asking what systems were operating, who held power, and how fairness or injustice was experienced and challenged.
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-U1`.
Guided inquiry in Aotearoa needs curation, cultural care, and structure. Open research without those safeguards often produces weak or unsafe work.
Curate a tight source bank, stage the checkpoints, and clarify the final audience before the project begins.
Best used when inquiry is spread across multiple lessons with visible checkpoints.
Ministry of Education. (2007). The New Zealand Curriculum. Learning Media.
Ministry of Education. (2021). Te Mātaiaho: The Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum. Ministry of Education.
Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. (2021). Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners. Teaching Council.