Digital resources and content for Māori learners provides interactive learning games, simulations, and digitized historical images and recordings to engage students. These include learning objects designed for the classroom as well as digitized cultural items. Teachers can use these resources for activities like matching games and repetitive language practice. They also support place-based learning, technology projects, art analysis, and developing students' visual literacy and writing. A catalog on the Digistore wiki helps teachers find and use these resources, which cover themes and include analysis questions for primary sources. The document encourages exploring the catalog and learning paths and sharing additional useful Māori content links.

1. Digital resources and content for Māori learners
Nā Janelle Riki and Suzie Vesper – National Māori Team, BeL Facilitator and Digi Advisor
http://digistore.tki.org.nz

2. What is Digistore?
Learning Objects Digitised Items
Digital images
Interactive learning games and
simulations specifically
Sound files
designed to engage and
motivate students.
Video files
Learning Objects
Digitised items

3. What are learning objects?
Learning objects combine still and moving images, text, audio and
animation to provide interactive multimedia experiences for
students. They are learning games and simulations.

4. What are digitised items?
Digitised items are resources that have been sourced from
leading Australian and New Zealand cultural and scientific
institutions and private collections.
Hānaki (fish trap) Te mahinga poi
Reproduced courtesy of the Reproduced courtesy of Archives New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

5. Go explore!
Visit a learning path to see a sample of the types of Māori digital
content available in Digistore. Be prepared to share your thoughts
on these resources on your return.
Learning path showcasing examples of Māori digital content in Digistore

6. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Matching activities
Match Te Reo Māori descriptions to the pictures.
He manu
tukutuku
raupō tēnei.
He hīnaki tēnei
hei hopu tuna.
Images reproduced courtesy of the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

7. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Repetitive engagement with Te Reo Māori games after using
the equivalent English ones.

8. Using māori resources in the classroom
Place based education / time frame inquiry
Māori school in the 1950s - Ruatoria on the East Coast
Reproduced courtesy of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara
o te Kāwanatanga

9. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Technology - Māori technology study
Image reproduced courtesy of the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
This is a Māori bird snare. How do you think it worked?
Can you create another simple design using wood and
a cord that could catch birds?

10. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Research and inquiry – use in children’s inquiry projects
Traditional Māori buildings
This is a Māori
food storehouse.
It is on poles to
stop animals
eating the food.
Image reproduced courtesy of the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

11. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Art - Understanding Māori art in context
Image reproduced courtesy of the
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
This is an example of rare materials (the albino kiwi feathers) being
used to make cloaks - the more decorative and rare the cloak
materials, the more likely that it was created for a person of high rank
such as a chief.

12. Using Māori resources in the classroom
As a hook for a new unit or piece of writing
Questions taken from the Library of Congress primary sources analysis tool
Describe what you see. When do you think it
What do you notice first? was taken?
What people and objects Who do you think was
are shown? the audience for this
How are they arranged? photo?
What is the physical What can you learn from
setting? examining this photo?
Why do you think this What’s missing from this
photo was taken? photo?
Image reproduced courtesy of Alexander
Turnbull Library
Beneath my fingers, the flax basket was beginning to form. It was
going to be ready in time for …

13. Using Māori resources in the classroom
Visual literacy – how picture book illustrations convey messages
Reproduced courtesy of Random House New Zealand, Gavin Bishop, Te Tai Tamariki
Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s Literature Trust
Hatupatu is similar in scale to the other pets in the illustration but
dramatically smaller than the bird woman which makes him appear
defenceless and vulnerable.

14. The Māori resources catalogue
Step 1
Go to the Digistore wiki
http://digistore.wikispaces.com
Step 2 Step 3
Go to the Māori related Click on the image Click the link to
resources page to open an online download a
version Microsoft Word
version
OR

15. Using the catalogue
The contents page – use to navigate the catalogue

16. Using the catalogue
A sample page
Title, picture preview Māori Title and ID number for English
and ID number description equivalent English entry description
Use ID code to
search Digistore
for the item

17. Other learning paths to explore
On the wiki, there are a range of learning paths that
explore different themes and focus on an analysis of
primary source materials.

18. Additional Māori related resources
On the wiki, there are also links to three Delicious stacks
where links to a number of websites with Māori related
resources have been collected. There is a place to
recommend links to be added to this resource.

19. Three important things to take
away with you!!
http://digistore.tki.org.nz/
http://digistore.wikispaces.com/
Want to know more or would like further support?
suzie.vesper@core-ed.org
merryn.dunmill@core-ed.org