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![Image: Five World War Two nurses, including Jean Bond (https://digitalnz.org/records/33840122/five-world-war-two-nurses-including-jean-bond-photograph) by [unknown]. Collection: Picture Wairarapa. On DigitalNZ. Image cropped.](https://images.ctfassets.net/q60gmaba8x5v/33gS0hEFZQloeYaNn6SWlq/384c04e0e646e01f75a10520152e8cb0/WW2_Many_Answers.png)
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Primary sources are things like letters, diaries, photos, poems and other documents and objects created during the war or soon after by people who were invol...
Entry last updated: 10/07/25
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Lunar New Year is a festival celebrated in Asian cultures that marks the beginning of the new year. It is based on a lunar calendar and begins with the first...
Entry last updated: 14/04/26
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
World War Two took place from 1939 to 1945. Almost every country in the world was involved. It was the deadliest war ever, leaving millions dead and wounded....
Entry last updated: 6/07/26
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Māori music has many important composers, some of whom use traditional mōteatea (chanted song-poetry), and others whose music includes introduced musical sty...
Entry last updated: 10/07/25
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Christianity is the biggest religion in the world. It is based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or Jesus Christ. People who follow the religio...
Entry last updated: 5/12/24
Pāua shells and gemstones like pounamu are considered precious taonga (treasures) in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our long shorelines are covered with shells of all...
Entry last updated: 10/07/25![Image: Māori carving, weapons and tools (https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/50916) by [unknown]. Collection: Hocken Digital Collections. Ref: P1910-008-022e. Image cropped.](https://images.ctfassets.net/q60gmaba8x5v/1OQmQJa1dNpbdhHP5jJ3uF/72925c7f204434a459086939844f7584/MÄ_ori_carving__weapons_and_tools.jpg)
The ancestors of Māori arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand, around 1250-1300 AD. They used the materials found around them to make weapons and tools to help them...
Entry last updated: 14/04/26
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Māori came to Aotearoa New Zealand more than 700 years ago, between 1250 and 1300 CE. They travelled by waka (canoes) from East Polynesia and landed at diffe...
Entry last updated: 14/04/26![Image: Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.] (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington,_D.C._(Dr._Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._and_Mathew_Ahmann_in_a_crowd.)_-_NARA_-_542015_-_Restoration.jpg) by
Rowland Scherman on Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Image cropped.](https://images.ctfassets.net/q60gmaba8x5v/1qc9fDQdeK29F6ANGfuJgY/b2803cc2b7873d86f18c39e702010525/Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington__D.C.__Dr._Martin_Luther_King__Jr._and_Mathew_Ahmann_in_a_crowd.__-_NARA_-_542015_-_Restora.png)
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister who became the most powerful voice of the American civil rights movement in t...
Entry last updated: 14/04/26
Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)
The movement of people from one place to another is called migration, and when people enter a new country to live, it is called immigration. Aotearoa New Zea...
Entry last updated: 6/07/26