Today, I completed the #14 Te Reo Maori challenge which was to locate nine different Maori place names and translate the Maori term to the English name.
I started this challenge by looking at the PBS Te Reo Maori challenge blog page and found a list of nine different Maori place names in New Zealand. I then used Google My Maps to locate these nine places and find out what their name is in English.
Tūranga-nui-a-kiwa means Gisborne, Te Whanganui-a-Tara means Wellington, Waihopai means Invercargill, Kirikiriroa means Hamilton, Tāmaki-makau-rau is Auckland, Ōtepoti is Dunedin, Ōtautahi is Christchurch, Ngāmotu is New Plymouth and Motupōhue is The Bluff.
Once we added the places to our map, we linked images of the places to the area it matches to. We included the Maori and English name in the layer title.
I really enjoyed this activity because I was able to practice using the Google My Maps and finding out a new way to translate Maori place names into English.
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