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| Questions/instructions: Show picture cards. Make sure pictures are in order. NOTE THE ORDER IS 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8. Do not give the student the pictures yet. In this activity you will be looking at some pictures and putting them in order.The pictures show events that happened in the history of New Zealand. Give the student the pictures one at a time, starting at number 1. Read the captions to the student. |
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(Note: Year 4 does not use postcards 2 & 6) |
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| 1. I would like you to put these pictures in the order in which you think they happened. Put the pictures in a line on the desk starting on the left with the event that came first. | ||||||||||||
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Order
of pictures:
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Mäori
explorers first
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49 (46) | ||||||||||
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Captain
Cook before Treaty of Waitangi
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61 (58) | |||||||||||
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Treaty
of Waitangi before vote for women
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54 (46) | |||||||||||
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vote
for women before World War I
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34 (35) | |||||||||||
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Hillary
climbing Everest after all others
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67 (58) | |||||||||||
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Dates:
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three
dates in correct order
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54 (47) | ||||||||||
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1769
used for Captain Cook
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25 (20) | |||||||||||
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1840
used for Treaty of Waitangi
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18 (11) | |||||||||||
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1914
used for World War I
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23 (13) | |||||||||||
| Point
one at a time to the following cards, asking:
3. Why was this an important event in New Zealand’s history?
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Quality
of explanations:
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3 (0) | ||||||||||
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basic
answer
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10 (10) | |||||||||||
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4 (3) | |||||||||||
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basic
answer
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25 (22) | |||||||||||
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1 (1) | |||||||||||
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basic
answer
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15 (6) | |||||||||||
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Total
score:
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8–15
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7 (4) | ||||||||||
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6–7
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25 (14) | |||||||||||
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4–5
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34 (44) | |||||||||||
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2–3
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29 (32) | |||||||||||
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0–1
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5 (6) | |||||||||||
| Commentary Students were much more able to place events in order than to assign dates them. Explanations of the importance of events were quite limited. Year 4 students in 2001 scored a little higher on almost all task components and hence overall. |
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