Strong fit
Interpreting past experiences, decisions, and actions through historical
evidence requires students to encounter appropriately selected and contrasting sources.
How this resource aligns
The guide helps kaiako build coherent source sets rather than isolated documents, which is
essential for real historical interpretation.
Social Studies
Source-set design
Historical evidence
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-ANZH-D1`.
Teacher move
Systems shape learning opportunities too: what students are able to
notice depends on the texts, voices, and structures kaiako place in front of them.
How this resource aligns
The planning guide supports teacher decision-making around rights, power, perspective, and how
different learners meet the same inquiry idea through different scaffolds.
Social Studies
Differentiation
Systems and power
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-U1`.
Aotearoa lens
Teacher curation in Aotearoa should protect against archive bias,
context-free use of Māori knowledge, and tokenistic “multiple perspectives” that do not actually
change what students learn.
How to teach this well
Use this guide to ensure at least one Māori-led or community-led source sits beside official
texts, and to match the right student scaffold to the chosen source set.
Mātauranga Māori
Teacher judgement
Inquiry design
Best used during planning before source analysis and writing tasks are
printed.