Pearson Social Studies: Tangata Whenua - First Footprints: People, Land and Resources in Aotearoa, 2nd edition

Updated to comply with the current curriculum.

WHY DO WE NEED TO STUDY ABOUT THE PAST?

In this book – the first in the tangata whenua series – students will explore why learning about and understanding the past is relevant to all who live in New Zealand.

They will do this through: 

• examining the challenges the first settlers faced when they arrived in their new homeland
• investigating the ways that the first settlers, and later the first European settlers, adapted to and impacted on their new environment and, over time, changed the way they interacted with the environment.

Through these investigations they will discover that we can all learn important lessons from the past.

The world of the first settlers to Aotearoa New Zealand and the consequences of their presence are explored through learning activities that focus on the social studies processes of inquiry, values exploration and social decision making.

The text is fully up-to-date and has been written by a Maori historian, while the activities have been prepared by a social studies expert. The text is well illustrated with full colour drawings and photos.

1. Aotearoa untouched 
2. Making Aotearoa home
3. Human impact and change
4. Learning from the past
5. Valuing places and the past
6. Protecting our places and heritage

• Identity, Culture and Organisation
• Place and Environment
• Continuity and Change

• Maori migration, settlement, life and interaction in various areas of New Zealand over time;
• The physical environment of New Zealand and how people interact with the landscape;
• Changing patterns of resource and land use.

Bicultural perspectives and perspectives on current issues have been used to explore the significance of peoples’ impacts on places, both in the past and in the present.

Also in this series:

• Face To Face : Two cultures meet in Aotearoa  ISBN: 9781442517929
• Framing the Frontier : Life in 19th Century Aotearoa  ISBN: 9781442534070