Activity T21: Using the Island

Tiritiri Matangi Activity

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Teacher Manual P 43

Social Studies Level 3

Place and Environment

Created 21/09/2001

AO1 - Students will demonstrate knowledge and understandings of how different groups view and use places and the environment.

Process : Inquiry and Values Exploration

SLO - Students will be able to identify and explain changes in the natural environment resulting from Maori and Pakeha land on Tiritiri Matangi.

Read the background pages Land Use, Restoration, Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi and Visitors.

  1. Explain some of the changes that people might have made to the environment when they were:

    • building dwellings


    • planting food crops


    • farming animals such as sheep


    • building and operating a lighthouse



  2. The Department of Conservation manages land on Tiritiri Matangi. They are charged with protecting and managing this land for the benefit of all people.

    List three examples of important habitat or cultural and historic heritage on the island. Tell why it is a special area.

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  3. How did the establishment of the Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi group benefit the island in the past and now?



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