Connection Across the Pacific

This resource provides some examples in the Instructional Series of Pacific histories and a link to the KNOW element in the Aotearoa New Zealand's histories curriculum.

After reading the story 'Kupe and Te Wheke, students can recreate the voyage using this Twinkl tool. Compatible with Beebots.

Sequence the ideas of 'Kupe and Te Wheke' with this Twinkl resource

Kupe is believed by many iwi to be the first Polynesian to discover Aotearoa. Students can explore this Māori legend with this Twinkl file.

This Twinkl Powerpoint or Google Slide of this story.

Using this Twinkl resource, students will explore this doubled-hulled vessel that Polynesian voyagers used to discover and then settle in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Step into the shoes of early Polynesian voyagers on their journey to Aotearoa, New Zealand with this Twinkl resource.

Use this Twinkl fact file and picture cut-outs to investigate Ruawharo, a priest from Hawaiki and how the whales came to NZ.