:Mäori Gods
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Approach:  One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8 
Focus:  Interpreting symbolic elements.
Resources: Prompt card, 3 pictures.
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Questions/instructions:

Show prompt card.

This is Tangaroa, the Mäori god of the sea.

You can tell this is the god of the sea because he has a fish tail, hair like seaweed and is blue and green like the sea.

% responses
y4
y8
Show picture 1.

1. What do you think he is the god of?
[Tawhiri-matea – god of wind/storms/ weather/clouds/rain]
name and ‘god of’ both correct
0
1
‘god of’ correct but not name
42
58
2. How does the picture show that?
[judged in relation to student’s answer to 1]
appropriately argued, using multiple features
46
66
appropriately argued, using one feature
43
30
Show picture 2.
    
3. What do you think he is the god of?
[Tumatauenga – god of man/people or war/fighting]
name and ‘god of’ both correct
0
0
‘god of’ corrrect but not name
19
28
4. How does the picture show that?
[judged in relation to student’s answer to 3]
appropriately argued, using multiple features
35
47
appropriately argued, using one feature
46
39
Show picture 3.    
5. What do you think he is the god of?
[Rongomatane/Rongomaraero – god of peace/happiness or god of gardening/farming/agriculture, kumara/arts]
name and ‘god of’ both correct
0
0
‘god of’ corrrect but not name
3
14
6. How does the picture show that?
[judged in relation to student’s answer to 5]
appropriately argued, using multiple features
34
54
appropriately argued, using one feature
52
36
 
Total score:
8–12
5
13
6–7
24
40
4–5
36
27
2–3
28
17
0–1
7
3

Commentary:
Students at both year levels showed substantial ability to reason using visual cues but little prior knowledge of these images.
 
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