Activity T22: A Forest for the Future

Tiritiri Matangi Activity	Teacher Manual P 45 Social Studies Level 4 Place and Environment Created 21/09/2001	AO1 - Students will demonstrate knowledge and understandings of how places reflect past interactions of people with the environment. Process : Inquiry and Values Exploration SLO - Students will be able to investigate and make conclusions about the natural environment resulting from local Maori and Pakeha land use on Tiritiri Matangi. © Heurisko Ltd www.learnz.org.nz/2001

Read the background pages Land Use, Restoration, Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi and Visitors. People in the past made use of the land on Tiritiri Matangi to meet their needs. Describe how people changed the forest or landscape when they were: building dwellings planting food crops farming animals operating a lighthouse People in different times hold different values about forest ecosystems. Imagine you are a lighthouse keeper working on Tiritiri Matangi about 100 years ago. It was a very isolated place and supplies were only brought to the island every 2 or 3 months. What would you value more - having stock for food or preserving the native forest? Why ? Now imagine that today you are a visitor from Auckland to Tiritiri Matangi. You've come to see the threatened bird species and the pohutukawa in flower? Would you give a different value to the forest as a visitor today Why/why not? The Department of Conservation manages land on Tiritiri Matangi to restore the biodiversity and conservation values. List the ways people can help with this restoration.