How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? Reenacting the story was fun and engaging. The only thing I would like to suggest for the future is to maybe have some surprise elements in there for the students to discover.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? I really enjoyed sharing New Zealand's history through the different view points. It helped students understand how easy it is to misunderstand what has happened in the past. It has helped me feel more confident approaching teaching history in this way ag

“This was an awesome kit that enabled students to learn through hands on activities. We had already spent a lot of time on Tuia 250 earlier in the year. Working through this kit allowed us to further consolidate our learning. We also extended the concepts by using Process Drama which was really fun.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? It was very valuable in helping them to understand there are many different sides to a story, depending on where you are, what you hear, what you see. The introductory activity, which involved a jar of scattered counters was a great starter, as children h

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? I would definitely be keen to teach this again. I believe teaching New Zealand history should be a compulsory part of the curriculum. As New Zealanders, we should know our backstory, and yet so many of us either don't or only get one side of the story.

“Sorry this is late, but thank you Schoolkit for the opportunity of working with another amazing hands-on resource. The kit had everything we needed, and even better; ideas for teaching the unit were also included. Learning about this small piece of New Zealand history was a real eye-opener for my children as the colonisation of Aotearoa was not something they had previously been taught. There was plenty of rich discussion and arguing about which group was 'in the right' and which was 'in the wrong', and why? The museum exhibition in the library and the school was invited to come along to view our artifacts, stories and posters. It was a great success. Plenty of hard work went into that, and children rotated as curators, dressed in period costume. They handled the many questions from other students and teachers, confidently. Again, an absolutely brilliant resource, and one I will be using again in the future.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? We were able to link to situations that the students have experienced where they are part of a situation that has people sharing multiple versions of the situation. It also allowed them to look at how we record history and the influences that can be in pl

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? It gave a broader scope of our history. As a resource it provided multiple perspectives and allowed the students to explore aspects y=that past resources haven't provided.

“An amazing kit for my year 7/8 class that we collaborated on with our year 6 class. It generated a huge amount of discussion and further exploration - we were lucky to end this learning with the Waitohi visit of the Tuia 250 encounter.”

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How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? It has helped me to understand more of NZ History and has certainly made it easy. I love the way it was set up and how good it looked up in our classroom.

“This kit was awesome. It certainly helped to put together our thinking and what lens we wanted to take with teaching NZ History. We were able to make it fit with our lines of inquiry and our end result was a showcase focusing on differing perspectives of events based on culture and prior knowledge.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? It made history come alive for them. They had the chance to be someone else and walk in their shoes. They could look at the morals and outlook of people and how society has changed. It gives hope of a brighter future.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? Looking at events and actions through the eyes of others makes history relevant. The idea of letting the children become the person and walk in their shoes having research their back ground is amazingly powerful. The large easy to use maps gave them an ov

“It was one of the best kits I have had from you. The children loved it and were totally engaged.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? The kids really bought into the imaginary theft of a teacher's lunch and when we revealed it actually had not happened but rather helped illustrate the point that there are multiple perspectives were surprised but enlightened!

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? I think for me personally I have been challenged to dig deeper into NZ History and not just take the dominant colonial perspective as the true and right one. If I am completely honest I am very lacking in my knowledge of the Maori perspective and need thi

“This kit was a welcome and refreshing change to teaching history! Often history is dominated by a single narrative so it was excellent to have this kit teach and show how different people view the same event in varying ways. For some of my kids they got it right away and realised how complex even one event can actually be, for others it took longer as they just wanted to know the 'right' version!”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? While watching a video clip that portrayed Captain Cook in a very good light it mentioned ";Captain Cook had friendly relations with the native people wherever he went."; One of my boys said ";Well we know that's not true! That's just one person's point o

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? I really didn't know much about Captain Cook and his early interactions with Maori so this was new learning for me. I think it is so important for our children to hear these stories and see a more real and balanced view of history and I think this kit doe

“Thank you school kit and Auckland Museum for another wonderful kit! Apologies for the late feedback...we started our kit in term 3 and we were a bit behind due to school camp and I wanted to do the kit justice before sending feedback. To be honest there were bits of the kit that I found tricky to get my head around and it required me spending quite a bit of time researching and piecing the story together myself, I have learnt a lot along the way! Because I come from a South Auckland School of Māori and Pacific Island learners we spent time acknowledging explorers such as Kupe and traditional wayfinding techniques. The highlight of the kit for me was seeing the excitement on the children's faces as they connected the characters together ";Hey! Your character shot me!"; and also when they watched the museum video then we had a package from the museum delivered to our classroom. The planning of our exhibition was driven solely by the children. They had such great ideas! While time restraints meant we didn't get to include all the things we wanted we were still absoultely buzzing and thrilled with how well it went. We invited another senior school class to our museum and the children created a scavenger hunt which required the visitors to go around each artifact, read the information and answer a question. There were prizes. Children had roles, museum security, DJ (they created their own playlist to help set the mood), someone collected the tickets we had sent out with our invitation, and stamped their hands as they arrived in the room, a child greeted them and went over the museum rules, children created a presentation of their learning and shared it with the visitors and we had children marking the scavenger hunt.”

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How did this kit help your students to discuss the idea of multiple perspectives? It opened up opportunities for us all to discuss events of the past and how we feel about these issues, and what we can do about it now.

How has this kit changed your perspective on teaching NZ History? It has always been difficult, knowing what early settlers did that conflicted with the Maori way of life. Confronting,

“Timely, with the governments new initiatives that we start thinking about exploring our own histories and backgrounds.”

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