New Settlers
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Approach:  One to one
ACCESS
Level: Year 8
Focus: Reasons for and consequences of migration  
Resources:
2 pictures
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Questions/instructions:

Hand student both pictures.
Here are two pictures showing a sailing ship filled with new settlers coming to New Zealand in the
1800s - about 200 years ago.

   
 
% responses
2009 ('05)
y4
y8
1. Which country or countries do you think these early settlers came from?    
tick Britain (including England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland)   70 (84)
Australia   7 (3)
Europe (excluding Britain)   30 (26)
2. Why did they come to New Zealand to live? Try to give me three reasons why they chose to leave their country to live in New Zealand.    
poor living conditions in home country/ better in New Zealand (money, jobs, health and food)   45 (44)
good land/own land   14 (18)
New Zealand healthy place to live (more space, less crowds)   26 (29)
3. What new things would these people need to learn and do, so that they could be okay living in a country that is very different and a long way away from the one they came from?    
Mentioned learning about/ needing to:    
Grow crops:    in New Zealand conditions (understand seasons, soil)   2 (0)
grow food/farming   16 (18)
build own home   23 (35)
gather food from the environment (fish, kumara)   19 (34)
speak Mäori (new language)/ anything to do with living with Mäori   26 (16)
laws of country/rules/customs   17 (12)
learn to trade/learn new trades/skills   11 (13)
 
Total score:
7–8
  2 (4)
5–6
  10 (14)
3–4
  40 (45)
1–2
  42 (31)
0  
6 (7)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 8


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