From Steve.Watters at mch.govt.nz Mon Jul 17 10:48:07 2006 From: Steve.Watters at mch.govt.nz (Steve Watters) Date: Mon Jul 17 10:48:39 2006 Subject: [Nzhistory-teachers] Term 3 newsletter Message-ID: 17 July 2006 Thank you for subscribing to the nzhistory teachers email list. Here are some of the recent additions to NZHistory.net.nz that you may want to include in your lesson planning. NUCLEAR FREE NEW ZEALAND Topics include nuclear testing in the Pacific, nuclear ship visits, the adoption of nuclear free zone legislation and the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985. Here is the main feature: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/nuclear-free And here are some suggested related activity ideas for the Level 1 'International Relations: New Zealand's Search for Security 1945-1985' theme: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/classroom/ncea1/ncea1-nuclear-free TE KINIGTANGA - THE MAORI KING MOVEMENT We have recently launched two features on the Kingitanga and a third (covering the period since 1894) is in the pipeline. To support these features we have created some suggested activities for levels 12 and 13 students: Level 2 (part of Maori leadership in the 19th Century): http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/classroom/ncea2/ncea2-maori-leadership Level 3 (part of New Zealand in the 19th Century): http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/classroom/ncea3/ncea3-kingmovement GUIDE TO STYLE This guide was created for writers at the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. There is much here that would also be of use for teaching kids the techniques of history writing. http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/handsonhistory/style-guide COMING UP There are a number of major new features in the pipeline, most of which are relevant to the history curriculum, including : - Maori participation in 20th Century wars - Crime and punishment - particularly 19th century crime and capital punishment - '81 Springbok Tour (25th anniversary) We have also now taken over the treatyofwaitangi.govt.nz website and will be starting to integrate this content into a new Treaty section of NZHistory.net.nz. Part of this process will be to add educational material for history teachers, so watch this space! We hope you can make use of all this new content. We love to get feedback, so please feel free to either respond to this list or email me directly: steve.watters@mch.govt.nz Good luck for the term ahead Steve Watters Web historian NZHistory.net.nz