Eruera Maihi Patuone lived to be 108 (some say he was 112). Over his long life, he would witness enormous change. Patuone was a boy when Captain Cook first arrived, and he was one of the first rangatira to sign Te Tiriti o Waitangi. As a warrior, he fought with both traditional weapons and muskets. Later in life, he became a peacemaker. Like his cousin Hongi Hika, Patuone was a descendant of Rāhiri, who in turn descended from Kupe.

This pack contains wide range of response activities including:

Two complete lesson slide decks. Each slide deck is fully structured and ready to teach, including:

• Clear WALT (Learning Intentions) and Success Criteria
• Engaging ‘Do Now’ warm-up activities
• Guided exploration of key historical content
• Explicit teaching of historical concepts (perspectives, cause and consequence, significance, continuity and change)
• Vocabulary development embedded throughout
• Opportunities for structured discussion and critical thinking
• Exit tickets to check for understanding

A Comprehensive Response Activity Pack - A wide range of purposeful activities that reinforce both historical inquiry skills and literacy development, including:

• A wide range of higher order thinking activities
• Perspective-taking and bias exploration activities
• Structured paragraph and extended writing scaffolds
• Vocabulary and language feature work
• Comprehension and inference tasks
• Cloze activities to consolidate key content
• Critical thinking and discussion prompts
• Independent or small-group response options

Themes explored include: ancestral wisdom, biography, Captain Cook, Eruera Maihi Patuone, Heki Pōkai, heritage, He Whakaputanga, Hokianga, Hongi Hika, land, leadership, Musket Wars, New Zealand Wars, Ngāti Pāoa, Northern War, power, rangatira, rangatiratanga, Te Tiriti, tūpuna, wars, whānau