Purpose: Wellness of whānau, hapū, and iwi through holistic care.
Key Features: Spiritual, mental, physical, and family health treated together. Rongoā (traditional medicine) alongside modern healthcare.
Purpose: Community decision-making and conflict resolution.
Key Features: Consensus-based decisions, elder wisdom, collective responsibility for outcomes.
Purpose: Sustainable guardianship of natural resources.
Key Features: Seven-generation thinking, spiritual connection to nature, sustainable harvesting practices.
Purpose: Connect people to each other, land, and knowledge.
Key Features: Tracks relationships, inheritance rights, cultural knowledge, and responsibilities.
Purpose: Community consultation and collective decision-making.
Key Features: Everyone has voice, consensus seeking, shared responsibility for implementation.
Purpose: Provide concrete examples of indigenous systems thinking to help students understand how non-Western knowledge systems address complex challenges.
Students will engage with this resource to build understanding of systems, governance, and civic action in Aotearoa New Zealand, connecting to Te Ao Māori principles.
Differentiation: Provide sentence starters or word banks for students who need scaffold support. Extend capable learners by asking them to find a real-world NZ example connected to this resource. Support ELL students with vocabulary pre-teaching. Adapt for neurodiverse learners by offering choice in how they record their thinking.
Prior knowledge: Best used after the relevant lesson or as an introductory hook. No specialist prior knowledge required.