Hands on Tauranga offers students stimulating and original learning opportunities with real museum objects that support the New Zealand curriculum at primary and secondary school level.
Ngā Maunga Tōhora | The Whale Mountains is a bi-lingual picture book in te reo Māori and English, telling the Ngā Pōtiki pūrākau of the three whales. This beautiful book tells of how the maunga in the area came to be. The book aims to introduce new generations of Tauranga Moana tamariki to the history of the rohe, including some of the local kai to be found in the sea.
'At the base of Mangatawa and opposite Mangatawa Marae is the fresh water spring. The name of the spring is called Te Waiū of te Tohorā. At times the water flows milky white, and we remember the pod of whales that beached at Rangataua.'
We have two copies of this pukapuka available to teachers - HC270 and HC271
Date published: 2017
Authors: Vincent Olsen Reeder and Hinemarie Burton
Illustrations by Tiare Dickson including Courtney Shepherd
Published in conjunction with Inspired Kindergartens
subject area: Te Ao Māori, Languages, Taonga, Geography
subject themes: Tauranga Moana, Ngā Pōtiki, whales, the ocean, place based curriculum
handling collection number: HC270
Why not get your hands on:
Ngā Maunga Tohorā picture book HC271
HC272 Te Ara o Pōtiki picture book
HC273 Te Ara o Pōtiki picture book
