:Ngä Atua Kaitiaki Mäori — Mäori Gods
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Approach:  One to one  
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.		 Whakaaturia te käri äwhina.

Ko Tangaroa tënei, te atua kaitiaki Mäori o te moana. Ka möhio tonu koe ko te atua o te moana tënei nö te mea he hiku ika töna, he rimurimu te ähua o ngä makawe, ä, he rite töna tae ki te moana, he kikorangi, he käkäriki.

% responses
Ged
MI
Show picture 1.     Whakaaturia te pikitia tuatahi.

1. What do you think he is the god of?
    He atua kaitiaki ia. He atua aha ia?
    [Tawhiri-matea – god of wind/storms/ weather/clouds/rain]
name and ‘god of’ both correct
2
60
‘god of’ correct but not name
57
34
2. How does the picture show that?
    Whakahängaitia ngä tohu o te pikitia, e kïia ai näna ërä mahi.
    [judged in relation to student’s answer to 1]
appropriately argued, using multiple features
49
39
appropriately argued, using one feature
42
48
Show picture 2.     Whakaaturia te pikitia tuarua.
3. What do you think he is the god of?
    He atua kaitiaki ia. He aha ia?
    [Tumatauenga – god of man/people or war/fighting]
name and ‘god of’ both correct
0
41
‘god of’ corrrect but not name
32
35
4. How does the picture show that?
    Whakahängaitia ngä tohu o te pikitia e kïia ai näna ërä mahi.
    [judged in relation to student’s answer to 3]
appropriately argued, using multiple features
36
40
appropriately argued, using one feature
46
30
Show picture 3.     Whakaaturia te pikitia tuatoru.
5. What do you think he is the god of?
    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
14
‘god of’ corrrect but not name
14
15
6. How does the picture show that?
    Whakahängaitia he aha ngä tohu o te pikitia e kïia
     ai näna ërä mahi.
     [judged in relation to student’s answer to 5]
appropriately argued, using multiple features
41
33
appropriately argued, using one feature
41
37
 
Total score:
8–12
9
45
6–7
36
24
4–5
23
14
2–3
26
10
0–1
6
7

Commentary:
Students in Mäori immersion (MI) settings scored statistically significantly higher than Mäori students in general education (GEd).
 
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