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This resource covers the history of the island, Māori settlement, Pakeha use of the island (lighthouse, farming, signal station, recreation reserve, scientific reserve) and the timeline of Tiritiri Matangi from 1821. It also recognises the future steps of Tiritiri Matangi, the vision, planting, and supporters of the island. This document would be informative for the students to understand aspects of the island.

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Resource 2 - Activities and Resource Printouts 

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Resource 2 - Activities and Resource Printouts 

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This website provides plenty of activities and resource printouts that include scavenger hunt, spot the differences, word search, maze, quiz, signal flag alphabet and decoding, life cycles of crabs, photosynthesis, seabirds, the lighthouse, and tracking tunnels. These worksheets incorporate some that could be completed on a visit to the island, and others that could be used in class.

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Kiwi Ranger badge, just grab a booklet from the Guiding Manager on the day, or ask the staff at the Visitor Centre. In the booklet there are a number of activities from word searches to sensory challenges. Complete the activities during your visit and ask one of the Guides to check it to receive your own special Kiwi Ranger badge!

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Resource 3 - Meet the Locals: Tiritiri Matangi Video by Department of Conservation

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Resource 3 - Meet the Locals: Tiritiri Matangi Video by Department of Conservation

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This video created by the Department of Conservation New Zealand is interactive and the perfect visual aid for teachers to utilise in their learning experience. Keywords and themes are highlighted for students to learn and experience e.g. The Māori name for saddleback is tieke, there are fantastic volunteer stories to inspire learners, and they will also hear the different bird calls incorporated from the bird sanctuary.

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Resource 4 - Lighthouse Powerpoint Slides 

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Resource 4 - Lighthouse Powerpoint Slides 

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This resource is useful for the educator to explore the purpose, function, and history of lighthouses. It includes colourful pictures and also relates to lighthouse examples over the world. This could be linked to student prior knowledge upon the subject. It explores why lighthouses were built, the oldest known lighthouses, are they still being used currently, and how lighthouses are designed. This could be a useful resource as a starter for students to create their own lighthouses and could be developed into an inquiry project.

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New Zealand’s coastline has always been a dangerous place for ships and boats. Early Māori knew that. Several traditional stories tell of waka being washed onto rocks in storms. Since the 1790s, when the first Pākehā reached New Zealand, more than 2,300 ships have been wrecked in New Zealand waters.This picture book includes the background history and story of Pencarrow, New Zealand’s first lighthouse. The website has a PDF version and also an audio recording of the storybook. It includes diagrams, maps, photographs, and a glossary that could support students’ literacy skills and knowledge.

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Pencarrow: New Zealand’s First Lighthouse / School Journal Level 2 August 2019 / School Journal / Instructional Series / English - ESOL - Literacy Online website - Instructional Series

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The lighthouse is a prominent landmark on Tiritiri Matangi Island. Students could explore the use of the lighthouse and how the lighthouse lenses work. This could be linked to the Science & Engineering sector of STEM learning.

Class Ideas & Suggestions:

-A teacher could set up a light source at the front of the classroom and a piece of paper at the back. They could then have students come up one at a time to hold a variety of different objects between the light source and the paper. The students could observe how the light changes when it passes through the different objects.

-The teacher could also set up a light source and a piece of paper on a table. They could then place a variety of different objects on the paper and have students observe how the light changes as it passes through the different objects.

-The teacher could also create a simple experiment where they shine a light through a glass of water and onto a piece of paper. The students could then observe how the light bends as it passes through the water.

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Separate from the lighthouse, Tiritiri had a signal station. Initially, signalmen communicated with shipping using signal flags, later Morse code and then radio. The linked powerpoint educates learners the past and present timeline of communication tools, this also includes both Morse code and radio. This could be linked to the Technology sector of STEM learning.

Class Ideas & Suggestions:

-Students could create a model of a type of telecommunication learnt from the slides. They would need to research in depth the 5W's (who, where, when, why, what) of the invention and how it transformed the way people communicated with each other.

-Students could also create/invent the next 'newest' mode of communication and make this into a model. Students could use AI image generators to generate a visual of the invention. This could link into discussion of empathy creation and observing a 'need' in the world that could be problem solved with the new invention.

-Students could also create a message using the morse code and exchange this with their peers to solve.

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Communication Past and Present PowerPoint

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This informative PowerPoint is designed for teachers to explain the History of Communication to students. It’s great for encouraging conversations about the similarities and differences in childhood’s from today and the past. Go through the communication PowerPoint in class and see which forms that children recognise in the modern-day. The resource features lots of different types of communication with images and helpful definitions. Examine changes in technology over several generations by comparing past and present objects and discussing how these changes have shaped people’s lives. Find out more about PowerPoints here.

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Plastic pollution is a huge problem for seabirds because it can be mistaken for food and can lead to injury, suffocation, or death. It also affects nesting sites and food sources. This could be linked to the Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics sector of STEM learning.

Class Ideas & Suggestions:

-World of waste: students collect and record data of the trash they generate, and describe strategies for using resources wisely (reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover).

-Wrap it up: students will examine the role of product packaging, design, materials, cost and resource waste. Students can consider how packaging can either be avoided or redesigned to alleviate these concerns and attempt to solve the plastic pollution problem.

-You are what you eat: students learn that different types of plastics float, sink, or stay neutrally buoyant, learn where ten species feed in the water column, and make connections between where an organism lives and feed and the type of debris to which it is exposed.

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According to Maori tradition, Tiritiri Matangi island is one of the floats of an ancestral fishing net. The Kawerau people occupied the island from very early times to the 1820s, and again briefly in the 1830s-50s. Experts knew all the signs for successful fishing, and used a calendar that listed favourable days. This is still in use today. Often, fishing would be directed by chiefs occupying prominent land points, identifying which grounds were to be fished. This could be linked to the Technology, Engineering, and Science sector of STEM learning.

Class Ideas & Suggestions:

-Use this poster to talk about the activities that traditionally take place in each month of the year. Activities for each season are suggested to engage children both and home and at school.

-The literal translation for Maramataka is ‘the moon rotating’. A rotating moon appears as different shapes when orbiting the Earth. These shapes are called ‘phases’. Learning the phases of the moon and the corresponding Māori names can occur in the classroom and at home. For a home activity, students can observe and record the apparent shape of the Moon in a diary over a month, which then could be shared and discussed at school. After every observation students should also learn the corresponding Māori name for that phase and what it represents.

-Compare the Maramataka to the Gregorian calendar. Frame the concept as a question. How does the Maramataka compare with the calendar used today? Place the Maramataka poster next to a recent calendar for students to make initial comparisons. Immediately they will see contrasting and comparable features. They may identify things such as one month in the Maramataka includes two months in the Gregorian calendar, they may also notice that the Maramataka begins in June as oppose to January. Once students have identified as many examples as possible record their initial findings on a compare and contrast map.

-Make a traditional fishing net: Materials you can use are harakeke for the netting and flexible vines.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ

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Maramataka: The Māori calendar learning resource

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Teach the Maramataka and the Māori months in your classroom with the help of our teaching resource and classroom poster.

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The lighthouse is sourced by batteries that are charged using solar panels. Engineers design technologies that can turn sunlight into electricity to power households and businesses. This could be linked to the Science, Technology, and Mathematics sector of STEM learning.

Class Ideas & Suggestions:

-Solar oven s'mores: Start by having the students cut a flap in the lid of the pizza box, leaving one side attached. Next, line the inside of the flap and the bottom of the box with aluminum foil, ensuring it’s smooth to reflect the sun’s rays. Place a piece of black construction paper inside the box to absorb heat. Cover the opening created by the flap with plastic wrap to create a greenhouse effect, trapping the heat inside. Place the s’mores ingredients on top of the black paper, close the lid, and prop the flap open to direct sunlight into the box. Have the students observe and record the temperature inside the box at intervals, noting the melting process of the chocolate and marshmallow. This activity not only teaches about solar energy but also introduces concepts like reflection, absorption, and the greenhouse effect.

-Solar water desalination: This experiment introduces students to the concept of desalination using solar energy. Start by dissolving a significant amount of salt in water to create a saline solution, mimicking seawater. Pour this solution into the large bowl, then place the smaller, empty bowl in the center. Cover the entire setup with plastic wrap, securing it with tape around the edges of the large bowl. Place a small weight or stone in the center of the plastic wrap, just above the smaller bowl, causing the wrap to dip slightly. Position the setup in direct sunlight and let it sit for several hours. The sun will cause the water to evaporate, leaving the salt behind, and condense on the underside of the plastic wrap. Droplets will then form, eventually dripping into the smaller bowl as freshwater. Discuss with students the process of evaporation and condensation and how this method can provide potable water from seawater using solar energy.

-Organise a tour of a home or facility that uses one or more solar technologies.

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4 Fun Solar Energy Activities for Students - EU Solar

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Solar energy isn’t just key to a green future; it’s also a blast for learners of every age! Mixing up …

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As one of New Zealand’s oldest island sanctuaries, Tiritiri Matangi is brimming with wildlife rarely seen on the mainland. The kererū, also known as wood pigeon or simply New Zealand pigeon, is endemic and one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most valuable assets when it comes to native bush regeneration. It is one of our most iconic birds with its beautiful blue-green and white plumage. A bird that you often hear before you see, the noisy beat of its wings makes a distinctive sound as it flies from tree to tree. This could be linked to the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics sector of STEM learning.

Class Ideas & Suggestions:

-Discuss what the kererū looks like. Show its size by equating it with something familiar, a toy maybe. Pass around an item of the same weight as a kererū – between 400 and 650 grams (a 500g block of butter is about right!). Is the kererū bigger than other garden birds? (Yes!). Have a quick look at birds that are sometimes mistaken for kererū – e.g. tūī, magpie, the rock pigeon.

-Make a kererū protector: Birds like kererū don’t see the glass in our windows so can fly into it and get Experiment with shape and colour to make some simple window decals to prevent bird strikes.

-Nest Build: Kererū builds their untidy nest out of sticks in the forks of trees. Though messy, it has to be strong enough to hold the weight of two large adults and an egg. In groups ask the students to find items to build their own nest. Have a collection of stones and test them to see which is the strongest.