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|  |  | Enabling
the 21st Century Learner: e-Resourcing the School Curriculum
1 TKI/EPIC - http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic
requires password, no limit to number of school users.
Collection
of 18 data bases, Discovering Collection- primary level, Encyclopaedia Britannica-school
edition-has junior level, Biography Resource Center, Oxford English Dictionary,
Proquest science journals, Grove Art & Grove Music online and more!
2 Discover - http://discover.natlib.govt.nz
An online treasure trove of NZ art and music items, many of which reflect
our
Maori & Pakeha heritage.
3 Papers Past -
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Selection of early NZ papers
housed in the Alexander Turnbull Library - showcases selected 19th century newspapers
and periodicals. The site currently contains digital images of over one million
pages from 41 publications.
4 Te Ara -
http://www.teara.govt.nz Encyclopedia of New Zealand
New Zealand
in Brief: Snapshots of the nation, including its history, natural environment,
government and culture.
Earth, Sea and Sky: The first group
of natural environment topics includes marine life, people and the sea, natural
resources, and shaping forces such as geology and climate.
Māori
New Zealanders: Learn about New Zealand’s Māori people, who define
themselves as iwi (tribes), by descent from the crew of voyaging canoes or other
illustrious ancestors.
New Zealand Peoples: Discover the people
who travelled from around the globe to settle in N.Z.
Places:
The Canterbury region is the fourth to feature in Te Ara’s coverage of New Zealand’s
distinctive places, joining Manawatū and Horowhenua, Northland and the Bay
of Plenty.
1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand: Take a trip back
in time and explore New Zealand with a state-of-the-art encyclopedia from the
mid-20th century.
5 Matapihi - http://matapihi.org.nz
Experience a selection of pictures, sounds and objects from New Zealand’s
archives, galleries, libraries and museums.
6 Te Ao Hou -
http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz
This website lets you search and browse
all 76 issues of the magazine Te Ao Hou The New World.
Te Ao Hou was published
from 1952 to 1976 by the Māori Affairs Department in New Zealand Aotearoa.
According to its first editorial, Te Ao Hou aimed "to provide interesting
and informative reading for Maori homes … like a marae on paper, where all questions
of interest to the Maori can be discussed."
7 Dictionary of NZ
Biography - http://dnzb.govt.nz
This
website contains over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their
mark' on this country. It does not include people who are alive. So you will not
find people like Helen Clark or Sean Fitzpatrick, but you will find people like
George Nepia or Michael Joseph Savage.
8 Timeframes -
http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz
Timeframes is an online database
of heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, a division of the National
Library of New Zealand, which holds the nation’s pre-eminent collection of publications,
manuscripts, music, maps, sound recordings, ephemera, photographs, cartoons, paintings,
drawings and prints. The picture collections cover the social and natural history
of New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica from the earliest European contact
to the present.
9 Any Questions –
http://www.anyquestions.co.nz
This service is designed to help you
find useful, accurate, online information - our online librarians will help you
work out the sort of information you need, and then begin searching with you.
Hours - Monday to Friday - 1pm – 6pm |
