What is the Maori name for New Zealand?
• Discuss an example of Maori tradition or culture. • What is its most famous fruit? • What are the two major languages of New Zealand? Top of Site Art • What is the Maori’s most important form of art? • What did the early Maori hunters make from bone? • Print out at least three pictures depicting Maori art. • Where do paua shells come from and how are they used in traditional Maori art? • What is “green stone” and where is it found? Top of Site Resources You may use your social studies book, a trade book from the library, and/or Grolier’s Multimedia Encyclopedia CD, but your primary source of information will be the Internet. Use the Internet sites listed below to help you. • History of the Maori • Destination New Zealand • Map of New Zealand • Weather of New Zealand • Fruit of New Zealand • Flag of New Zealand • Art of the Maori Top of Site Process You will work in groups of five. Team members will work together and have specific jobs. The Leader will keep the group on task. The Reco
