Happy Waitangi Day, Aotearoa!

In celebration, we're highlighting Whale Rider, the international hit movie about a Māori girl who challenges gender norms to pursue her destiny, based on the acclaimed novel by Witi Ihimaera.

When Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance at age 13, she became the youngest actress ever nominated for the award at that time and the first Indigenous actress and first Māori actress ever nominated.

We were honored to partner with the filmmakers to make the official teaching guide for this film. Get our free lesson plans to share this beautiful film with your learning community.

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/whale-rider/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Waitangi+Day&utm_content=Link

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Seeing the news of that whale stranding today, it's hard to not think:

"Ok, time to fess up NZ: Who called the ancients here again?! I know we've had a whole host of challenges recently, but damn..."

(Yes... I did rewatch that film recently. 1st time since we went took a class trip to Hoyts Northlands to watch it when it came out! TBH, while we were generally disappointed by the adaptation, watching it again, it holds up quite well + is better than I remember!)

#WhaleRider

🎉 Happy International Day of the Girl! Inspire your students of all genders with amazing films celebrating girls from around the world + our free teaching guides!

https://journeysinfilm.org/girls/5-films-that-celebrate-girls/

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#OTD in 1897, the first International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zürich, Switzerland. The congress even included four women!

That makes today a great time to point out that we have film-based lesson plans for math classes. — Yes, you can teach math with film!

Get our free, classroom-ready lesson plans to teach math with films like Hidden Figures (the math of space travel), Like Stars on Earth (the math of determining your grade), Whale Rider (Fermi problems) and more.

Get students of all genders excited about math. Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/teach-math-with-film-for-math-and-stats-month/

Like all our resources, our math lessons are free for everyone.

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We were excited to spy Whale Rider on this Kanopy poster at #ALAAC24! We are big fans of the award-wining coming-of-age film about a Māori girl who challenges tradition to fulfill her destiny. Students love it!

#ALA #SanDiego #AmericanLibraryAssociation #GlobalEducation #Education #WhaleRider