📜 Core history fit
Students should analyse historical sources critically, recognise perspective, and understand that historical accounts are shaped by power, language, and purpose.
Why this lesson fits
The lesson makes source analysis explicit rather than assuming students will absorb it by reading. It is strongest when used to compare contested accounts of Te Tiriti, colonisation, protest, or settlement history.
📜 Social sciences / history
🔎 Source analysis
⚖️ Perspective and power
Use this page when planning inquiry work that needs stronger historical method, not just historical content.
🗣️ Strong literacy fit
Learners should read closely, interpret evidence, and build supported conclusions in speaking and writing.
Why this lesson fits
Students are asked to compare documents, explain limitations, and justify a conclusion. That makes the lesson useful for English as well as history, especially where schools want evidence-based paragraph or seminar work.
🗣️ English
✍️ Supported writing
💬 Seminar discussion
A strong fit for integrated social sciences and literacy planning.
🌿 Supporting Te Tiriti fit
Local curriculum should help learners examine Te Tiriti and colonial history through more than one archive, including Māori voices, petitions, and community memory.
Why this lesson fits
This lesson resists the old pattern where colonial records appear as neutral fact and Māori sources are treated as secondary. It makes the comparison itself part of the learning.
🌿 Te Tiriti
🏘️ Local curriculum
🤝 Māori perspectives
Best used alongside local rohe history or iwi material when that is available.
🧠 Critical literacy and citizenship
Students need opportunities to examine how public memory is made, whose voices dominate, and how historical interpretation affects present-day civic life.
Why this lesson fits
The lesson builds habits of mind that go beyond one historical topic: questioning authority, recognising omission, and asking who benefits when one version becomes “official”.
🧠 Critical literacy
🏛️ Civic understanding
📚 Evidence-based argument
Useful for senior pathways where teachers want explicit critical-thinking and document-analysis evidence.
Mātauranga Māori Lens
This curriculum companion is informed by mātauranga Māori — the holistic body of Māori knowledge, values, and practices. Kaiako are encouraged to draw connections between the content and tikanga, whanaungatanga, and students's turangawaewae (place and belonging). Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles of partnership, participation, and protection should shape how this material is introduced and discussed in the classroom.