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: Te Kararehe o te Ana — Cave Creature (Crayon & Pastel Drawing)
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Time: 20 minutes  
Approach: Independent
Focus: Students can produce an expressive coloured drawing based on an imaginative idea, using skills of composition and media effects.

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Resources: Video containing words on screen and voice-over. Per student: set of 12 oil pastels; set of 12 soft crayons; 1 sheet of B3 grey sugar paper; cardboard under-surface; tray for crayons.

English instructions:
On each student's table place a sheet of grey sugar paper on a cardboard under-surface, and a set of 12 pastels and 12 crayons arranged tonally on a tray.

Show video tape.

Cave Creature video script.

In this activity you are going to draw a picture of a make-believe cave creature.

You will have your own set of crayons and pastels to work with. Try to use both the crayons and pastels in ways that make your colours and shapes look strong, bright and really effective. You can get different effects in your colours and shapes by using crayons and pastels over the top of each other. You can blend, mix and rub different colours in all sorts of interesting and unusual ways.

Now let's think about that make-believe cave creature – your very own special cave creature that comes from your own ideas and imagination. A cave creature that glows big, bright and colourful.

Imagine that at night your creature lives in a huge hollow cave at the edge of a steamy, swampy pool of weedy water. During the daytime it likes to stomp and stalk through the bushes and grasslands, and to cool off in a pool of slimy mud, muck and water that surrounds its cave.

Let's pay attention to the creature you are going to draw. It's a strange kind of creature, because in one way it helps to protect the swampy pool and everything that lives in it, but in another way it can be scary and frighteningly fierce. As well as being a good protector, it can also be an awesomely powerful beast that none other would like to tackle or challenge.

Think about what your cave creature might look like. Think about the size and shape of its body, and think about the parts of its body – its eyes, its nose, its mouth, its teeth, its tongue and its powerful jaws. This cave creature is going to look strong, fierce, alert and full of energy? It's a creature that can bellow an enormous and spine-shivering roar that will make attackers twitch and tremble?

Think about its spine, its tail, its legs and claws. This creature can stomp and splash and thrash its way through the mucky pool as well as run, prance, grab and shake with great power and speed?

By now you will be thinking hard about the shape, colours, body parts and body patterns of your wonderful cave creature – a cave creature that will seem to have almost magical powers to protect and attack.

No one has ever seen a real live cave creature of this kind, so no one can ever say that your drawing is right or wrong. But try to make it special, interesting, and as big as you can make it, so that it fills your paper.

You need to work quite quickly to do as much as you can in 20 minutes.

Remember — bright, glowing colours and a wonderfully big and powerful cave creature.

When there is 5 minutes to go, remind students of the time remaining.

Mäori instructions:
Whakatakotoria ki runga i te tëpu o ia äkonga tëtahi papakäri ä-raro [cardboard undersurfaces] kei runga tëtahi pepa huka kerei, tëtahi huinga piakano hinu 12, ngä piakano 12, e tätai ä-tae ana i roto i te paepae.

Whakaaturia te rïpene ataata.

Te Kararehe o te Ana

Ko tä koutou mahi, he tä whakaahua o tëtahi tino kïrehe noho ai i tëtahi ana.

Whakamahi ai koutou i äu ake penehinu me ëtahi piakano, mä te tuhura i ënei, kia kitea ëtahi ähuatanga whaitake, pënei i te muramura me te hahae mai o ngä tae mö ngä ähuahanga ka hiahiatia e koe, ä, e wana ai te titiro ä-karu. E rerekë ai äu tae mö äu ähuahanga, tuhuratia äu rawa tä, mä te whakapaparanga o ëtahi ki ëtahi atu, mä te whakaranu, mä te muku, mä te aha noa. Ka mau te wehi.

Na! Me whakaaro ake ki tënei tümomo kïrehe — näu anö täu, ka puta noa mai i öu mahara, i öu whakaaro auahatanga o te hinengaro. Me tino whakanikohia tënei kïrehe kia tino kanapa mai, kia muramura mai hoki ï te huhua o ngä tae.

E huri öu whakaaro ki te po noho ai tö kïrehe i roto i tana ana i te tahataha o tëtahi repo, matomato nei te tupu o te otaota me te rere o te korohü. Tae atu ki te awatea ko ia tënä me töna tino kaingäkau ki te takatakahi, ki te mökihi haere i waenga uru räkau me ngä pätiti hoki, ä, ki te hia whai hauhau, arä anö tëtahi punawai kï nei i te paru häwaniwani me te wai rere noa ana, huri noa i töna ana.

Anä, me huri te titiro ki te tino kïrehe ka hangaia nei e koe. Kätahi nä te kïrehe rerekë me öna taha e rua. Ko tëtahi taha öna he äta manaaki i töna taiao, ngä rawa ëtaha whakamataki, taratutü nei. Häunga tonu, ahakoa töna ngäkau manaaki nui, na te ihi, te wana me te wehi o töna tü taikaha, e kore ai tëtahi atu e hia whakapätaritari atu, e whiu wero atu ränei  ki a ia.

Me hoki mai te whakaaro inäianei ki te ähua o tënei tümomo kïrehe. Tërä, ko töna rahi me ngä ähuatanga o öna wähanga ä-tinana — öna karu, töna ihu, töna waha, öna niho, töna ärero me te kaha o töna kauae. Käore e kore mä töna tinana e whakaari mai i töna kaha, töna tarawetiweti me te hihiko o te püngao. Ki te papä mai te waha, turituri katoa te äo, wiriwiri kau ana ëtahi kaituki, i te kaha haruru o tënä waha.

Tënä! Pëhea hoki te whakaaro ki töna tuarä, töna whiore, öna waewae me öna matihao. Taea tonu e tënei kïrehe te takatakahi, te pöhutuhutu o ngä waewae i a ia ka whakawhiti atu i tetahi punawai paruparu me töna ähei anö ki te oma tinana i te hohoro o tana haere.

Käti rä, i tënei wä, tërä pea kua tau kë ëtahi whakaaro mö te whakaritenga ähuahanga, momo tae, wähanga ä-tinana me ëtahi tauira hoki hei whakakäkahu i tënei kïrehe äu — he tino kïrehe rerekë — puta ohorere noa mai öna ähuatanga, ära, ko töna taha tinana ko töna taha wairua, me i kore, e kitea tahi tonu taha rerehua.

Käore he tangata kua kite noa i tënei tümomo kïrehe no reira, käore e taea e tëtahi te kï, kei te tika tö mahi, kei te hë ränei. Hangaia tö kïrehe kia tüturu mïharo, kia tata kï tonu tö pepa i a ia.

Me whakapau kaha koe kei oti ai tö whakaahua i roto i te rua tekau meneti.

Kia maumahara — whi runga i töna rahi, töna ake mauri me te huhua o ngä tae ka whakamahia e koe.

Kia tae ki te 5 meneti i mua o te mutunga, ka whakamahara atu ki ngä äkonga mö te wä kei te toe.

   
mean score
GEd
MI
Key attributes:
(0 low – 3 high)
   
expressiveness: 1.1 1.3
image appropriate to task (cave creature); strength, vitality, colour, movement, dynamism, imagination, avoidance of cliche    
composition: 1.1 1.3
use of whole pictorial space; appropriate context; arrangement of images; balance    
detail: 1.15 1.35
finer features included; use of line, texture, pattern, colour blends    
use of media: 1.15 1.2
technical control of media; exploiting a range of mark making    
Global rating:
(0 low – 5 high)
1.7 2.25
Commentary:
Overall, the ratings obtained by MI (Mäori Immersion) students were statistically significantly higher than those obtained by GE (General Education) students.
 
 
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