In this activity, students use literacy skills and strategies to locate information across a series of articles that feature Māori knowledge of animals.
By the end of this activity, students should be able to:
- locate information in the text
- interpret the information to answer literal and inferential questions
- use content vocabulary.
Download the Word file (see link below).
Related content
The following resources provide brief introductions of Māori knowledge about a selected sample of animal species indigenous to Aotearoa:
- Māori knowledge of animals
- Kurī
- Kiore
- Ngā manu a Tānemahuta (featuring pīwakawaka, tūī, kererū, rūrū, kōtare, tītī and toroa)
- Ngā ika a Tangaroa (featuring makō and tohorā)
- Ngārara – te aitanga a Punga
- Te aitanga pepeke
Activity ideas
These activities are also literacy based and use the Māori knowledge of animals resources listed above:
Acknowledgement
This content has been developed by Professor Georgina Tuari Stewart (Ngāti Kura, Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu, Pare Hauraki), Auckland University of Technology, and Dr Sally Birdsall, University of Auckland, with funding and support from the Ministry for Primary Industries – Manatū Ahu Matua and the Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART).