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.
Te Pūrākau o Mauao (the legend of Mauao) is a bllingual picture book created by students from Otūmoetai College in 2021.
The book includes QR codes so that readers can also listen to the story in both English and te reo Māori.
Date Published: 2021
Authors: Haylee Van Herpen-Jacobs, Paige Sutton, Imogen Lowe and Jasmine Evans
Te reo Māori text: Bobby Ketu
Illustrator: Isabella Chaney
Subject Area: Languages, Taonga
Subject Themes: Tauranga Moana, Mauao, pūrākau
Handling Collection Number: HC245
