Teacher-only planning companion for Unit 2 Technology Definition Challenge. Use it to turn a provocative question into serious discussion about values, criteria, and power.
The aim is not “Māori technology is better” as a slogan. The aim is to make students expose and evaluate the criteria used to define progress and sophistication.
Systems shape how people and groups organise themselves: rights, responsibilities, power, and fairness.
The challenge makes students question whose system of values gets treated as normal when technology is evaluated.
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-U1`.
Interpreting past experiences, decisions, and actions and making informed judgements using historical evidence and context.
The resource gives learners language for challenging deficit framings of pre-colonial Māori innovation in Unit 2 history work.
Te Mātaiaho Social Studies `TM-SS-3-ANZH-D1`.
Concept challenges in Aotearoa work best when examples are concrete and students must justify their criteria openly.
Anchor the kōrero in two or three named examples, then demand evidence for each judgement.
Best used at the start of Unit 2 or before innovation-focused inquiry.