The remains of Te Aro Pā were discovered in the early 2000s in Wellington. This article explores the history of the pā and the iwi who lived there, as well as the impact of European settlers from the 1840s and the 1855 earthquake.

This pack contains wide range of response activities including:

• A guided reading plan exploring key literacy elements including inference and deduction, language use, making connection and text organisation, along with key questioning to promote emotional intelligence, metacognition and compassionate inquiry. 
• An independent learning contract complete with explainer videos for activity clarity
  
• A wide range of response activities to support developing and embedding key literacy skills including sentence and word work, spelling, and cloze activities. 

Themes explored include: archaeologists, artefacts, colonisation, daylighting, earthquakes, history, Kupe, māra kai, pā, Pākehā, Pipitea, pre-European, settlers, taonga, Taranaki, Te Aro, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, tīpuna, trade, tūpuna, Wellington, whare, Whātonga