Activity T20: A Restoration Project

Tiritiri Matangi Activity	Teacher Manual P 41 Social Studies Level 2 Place and Environment Created 21/09/2001	AO1 - Students will demonstrate knowledge and understandings of how people's activities influence places and the environment and are influenced by them Process : Inquiry and Values Exploration. SLO - Students will be able to talk about and describe the changes in the natural environment resulting from Maori and Pakeha land use on Tiritiri Matangi. © Heurisko Ltd www.learnz.org.nz/2001

Read the background pages Land Use, Restoration and Visitors. When Maori came to Tiritiri Matangi they were able to catch and gather food, grow crops, build villages and construct pa (defence sites). Name four ways European settlers used the island:         What changes did people make to the forest and the land when they grew crops? built houses? grazed stock? Recent changes When the grazing stopped and the land reverted back to the government what happened to the island? Why did the scientists begin a planting programme and was it successful?