Conservation Week 2003:
Young Historians Competition

Our Places - Our Stories
Nga whakanikoniko o te Ao Tawhito
The strands of our history are woven into the tapestry that is our heritage

Attention teachers & students!

Enter the Conservation Week Young Historians competition and explore people, places and stories from New Zealand's past. Use the specially developed Young Historians teaching unit to help prepare your entry.

There are two award categories for individual and group participation at both junior and senior level, and great prizes to win! The competion is summarised here, please make sure you download and read this file for full details of entry terms & conditions, prizes and helpful hints.

Award Categories

Category 1: Individual Award - Story Telling

Senior category: years 11–13
Junior category: years 7–10

Tell a story about an historic place associated with an important event that happened in your area. Explain in your story why this place is important to your community. You can use your imagination to tell the story but the events surrounding your chosen place must be based on fact.
OR
Tell the story of a person who lived in your area at some time in the past. You could choose a local identity, ancestor or family member. You can create a person so long
as their experiences are based on fact. In your story you want to gain a sense of what life was like for this person. Show the past through their eyes.

Stories can be written or recorded on audiotape. Written submissions for this category of the competition may be sent in electronically or in hard copy.

Category 2: Group Award - Design a Heritage Trail or Display Panel

Senior category: years 11–13
Junior category: years 7–10

A group of students must work collaboratively to design a heritage trail showing features of their local history. The trail might include old buildings and structures, landscape features, and events and stories connected with places along the trail.
OR
a student group may design a display panel for a local historic site. Use words and visuals to describe the site. What’s special about it? What happened there? What people and stories are associated with it? Are there any issues or problems associated with the site that you want to communicate?

Closing date for entries is Friday 29 August 2003. Winners will be announced during September.

Entries

Send entries to Anne McLean, Department of Conservation, P O Box 10420, Wellington or via email to amclean@doc.govt.nz

Please make sure your entry is labelled with the teacher’s and student’s or students’ names, your school name & address, and clearly identify the category in which you have
entered.
The judges’ decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Young Historians Teaching Unit

This teaching unit was developed to support the Conservation Week 2003 Young Historians competition, and for use as an ongoing resource to support the teaching of culture and heritage in the Social Sciences programme.

The unit covers the Culture and Heritage strand of the national Social Studies curriculum. Read more about the teaching unit here, and also obtain useful teaching notes for supporting your students who wish to enter the Young Historians competition.