🌱 Core planning fit
Students should investigate future pathways, connect learning with contribution, and evaluate choices in relation to people, place, and purpose.
Why this lesson fits
This lesson asks ākonga to examine STEM futures through contribution, innovation, and community impact rather than job-title memorisation. It supports future-focused learning while keeping Māori aspirations visible.
🚀 Futures and pathways
🤝 Key competencies
🌍 Contribution to community
Use this page when reporting how the lesson supports pathways education, option selection, and culturally responsive senior planning.
🧪 Strong science / technology fit
Senior learners should understand that science and technology operate in social and cultural contexts, and that innovation responds to environmental, community, and ethical needs.
Why this lesson fits
Students explore Māori-led science and technology examples, then connect skills and subjects to real pathways in Aotearoa. That makes the lesson a strong bridge between curriculum learning and authentic futures.
🧪 Pūtaiao / Science
🛠️ Hangarau / Technology
📚 Senior planning
Best used when a department wants to show why STEM learning matters in real pathways, not just in assessment tasks.
🧭 Supporting local curriculum fit
Local curriculum design should help students connect learning with identity, whakapapa, aspiration, and opportunities in their own communities.
Why this lesson fits
The pathway lens becomes much stronger when kaiako localise examples: iwi environmental work, community health initiatives, engineering projects, digital work, or regional tertiary/trade opportunities.
🏘️ Local curriculum
🌿 Mātauranga Māori
👨👩👧👦 Whānau pathways
Use Te Wānanga to localise pathway examples, then keep this companion for planning and reporting continuity.
💬 Talk, reflection, and decision-making
Students need opportunities to discuss choices, weigh evidence, and articulate goals in ways that build confidence and agency.
Why this lesson fits
The pathway profile and action-plan tasks support oral language, reflective writing, and decision-making. This makes the lesson useful well beyond careers week.
🗣️ Oral language
✍️ Reflection
🎯 Agency
Strong supporting fit for tutor time, mentoring, whānau evenings, and senior transition programmes.