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100+ Ideas for Teaching History,
Julia Murphy
ISBN: 9780826497888
This little book has over 100 ideas for teaching History in a creative manner. Ideas range from Menu creation, to teaching Family Trees and Theme Days.
Julia Murphy is a History and English teacher in South Wales.
You can find this book on Amazon or at Whitcoulls
The Information-Literate Historian
Jenny L Presnell
ISBN: 9780195176513
This book is great for extending your students research process, and how to differentiate between reliable and unreliable evidence from the internet.
You can find this book on Amazon or at Whitcoulls
Settlers: New Zealand Immigrants from England, Ireland and Scotland 1800 - 1945
Jock Phillips and Terry Hearn
ISBN 9781869404019
Who were our Pakeha ancestors? From which parts of the United Kingdom did they come from? Were they Catholic or Protestant, urban or rural, farmers or factory workers?
The use of individual examples of immigrants and their families show us that these settlers were a distinctive group. Adding elements of their own diverse cultures to their new homeland, along wtih their shared characteristics, they helped to forge New Zealand's culture and history.
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You can find this book on Madras Cafe Books, Whitcoulls.co.nz or the University Book Shop
More information about this topic can be found on NZHistory.net
The Heather and the Fern: Scottish Migration and New Zealand Settlement
Edited by Tom Brooking and Jennie Coleman
ISBN 1877276332
The Scots were one of the largest migrant groups to New Zealand and contributed a lot to our evolving society. This book contains nine essays on a variety of aspects of the SCottish settlement in New Zealand. Both nineteenth and twentieth centry migration is covered alongwith the Scottish diaspora, bagpipes and Robbie Burns.
You can find this book at Whitcoulls