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Regional Resources

Lots of things have happened that have had an impact on Rotorua. The following resources explore these events and can offer some different perspectives.

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Historically people have been communicating with each other in many different ways. There is verbal communication, which uses sounds and spoken language, non...

Regional Resources

Māori lived on the East Coast for a long time before the arrival of European settlers, traders, whalers, and missionaries. The region is well known for the a...

Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)

Classical music has developed and changed over hundreds of years. Music from each of the four main eras has a distinct sound as composers experimented with e...

Regional Resources

Hutt City has many interesting places both from it's history and dedicated to it's history, we'll recommend some websites and collections you can use to find...

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

The Arctic region is the area around the North Pole. It includes parts of Russia, Norway, Canada, the USA and other countries. The centre of the Arctic regio...

Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)

Māori were the first to use pounamu (greenstone) and stone to make tools, weapons and ornaments. In the 1840s, coal and gold were discovered and mining began...

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Floods happen when large amounts of water from rivers, oceans, seas and lakes overflow onto land. This can result in the loss of lives, and the destruction o...

Regional Resources

There are many places that are significant to Hawke's Bay, known as Te Matau-a-Māui in te reo Māori. Here are some resources you can use to find out about th...

Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)

Kate Sheppard was born in England on 10 March 1847. She and her family moved to New Zealand in the late 1860s. Kate was a founding member of the Women's Chri...