:Aotearoa

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Approach: One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8
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Focus: The naming of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Resources: Map of Aotearoa/New Zealand.  
Questions/instructions:
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Here is a map of New Zealand.

% responses
2001 ('97)
y4
y8
1. How did New Zealand get the name “New Zealand”?
PROMPT: Is there anything else you know about how New Zealand got its name?
Named by:
(Abel) Tasman
0
3
Dutch explorer, first (non-Mäori) to discover New Zealand
0
2
Dutch explorer
1
1
first (non-Mäori) person to discover New Zealand
4
5
Captain Cook
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14
the pakeha, Europeans
3
2
Reason for name:
after “Zeeland”, a place in Holland
3
5
after a place Tasman knew
0
1
after a place the explorer knew
1
4
after another place (vague)
4
7
New Zealand is often called “Aotearoa”.   Point to name: Aotearoa.

2. Try to explain the name “Aotearoa” to me.How did we get the name Aotearoa?

PROMPT: Is there anything else you know about the name Aotearoa?
Named by:
early Mäori explorers/settlers
7
11
Kupë or Maui
3
2
Mäori people
48
48
explorers/settlers
0
1
Reason for name:
appearance–land of the long white cloud
7
28
part of above
4
11
Commentary
The results show very limited knowledge of how Aotearoa/New Zealand got its name.
 
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