Aspects of Technology
 : Ngä Warapï i Aotearoa – Wallabies in New Zealand
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Approach: Independent

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Focus: Comprehension
Resources:   Story in recording book; red pencil
Questions/instructions:
He mahi takitahi tënei. Kia kaha koe i töu kotahi.
Mäku e hoatu tëtahi körero mö te kararehe nei, te warapï. Kei roto i tö pukapuka whakautu ngä tohutohu mahi. Kia oti tö mahi, äta tirohia, kätahi ka homai ki ahau.

Kaua e äwhinatia te äkonga ki te pänui i ngä tohutohu.

Käore he wä aukati i tënei mahi.		 In this activity everyone works on their own, and does their best without getting help from others.
I’m going to give each of you a story about wallabies. The instructions in your answer book tell you what to do with the story about wallabies. When you have finished, check your work then bring it to me.
DO NOT help students with reading the instructions.
Note that there is no time limit on this task. 
Pänuitia te körero, “Ngä Warapï i Aotearoa”, ka whai ai i ngä tohutohu nei.
Wallabies
Mäori Immersion version:
Nui atu i te kotahi rau tau ki muri, i haria mai ngä warapï ki Aotearoa. Përä i te tia, i te räpeti, me te paihamu, he kino te mahi a te warapï ki ngä pämu me ngä ngahere, nä te mea ka kai te kararehe nei i ngä otaota hou.
He tino ririki te warapï kätahi anö ka whänau mai (ka karangahia he joey), he iti ake i te kotahi karamu täna taumahatanga. Ka whänau mai te punua warapï, ka ngöki haere ia mä ngä huruhuru o töna whaea ki te pükoro. Ka noho ki reira mö ngä marama e waru pea, koirä töna ükaipö.
Ki te hiahia te tangata ki tëtahi punua warapï hei mökai mäna, me whakaae atu Te Papa Atawhai. Kore rawa e whakaaetia kia tukuna he warapï ki te ngahere, engari, ka taea te whakanoho warapï ki te whare kararehe, me te papawhenua koraha.		 General education version:
Wallabies were introduced to New Zealand over a hundred years ago. Like deer, rabbits, and possums, they are a threat to farming and native forest because they eat young plants.
A newborn wallaby (called a joey) is very tiny and weighs less than a gram. When a joey is born, it finds its way through its mother’s fur to her pouch. It stays in her pouch, drinking milk from her nipple, for about eight months.
Anyone who finds a joey needs to get a permit from the Department of Conservation before deciding to keep it as a pet. Wallabies cannot be released back into the wild, but they can be kept in zoos and wildlife parks.
 
% responses
1. Porowhitangia te ingoa mö te pëpi warapï.
 Put a ring around the name of a newborn wallaby.
 
Ring around:
“a joey” 81
  
2. Tuhia he rärangi iraira pënei ki raro i ngä kupu,
e whakaatu ana i te roa o te noho a te pëpi warapï ki te pükoro o töna mämä.
 Put a dotted line under the time a joey stays in its mother’s pouch.
Dotted line under:
“about 8 months”
21
 
“8 months”
19
3. Tuhia he tohu pënei 4 ki runga ake i ngä kupu e whakaatu ana i ngä wähi e whakaaetia ana hei käinga noho mö te warapï.
 Put ticks 4 above the places where wallabies can be kept.
Tick above:
“zoos”
57
 
“wildlife parks”
51
“pouch”
9
no tick above anything else
30
4. Tuhia he tohu pënei 7 ki runga ake i ngä kupu
“e whakaatu ana i ngä mahi kino a te warapï
ki ngä pämu me ngä ngahere.
Put crosses 7 above all the threats to farming and native forests.
 
Cross above:
“deer”
15
 
“rabbits”
19
“possums”
17
“wallabies”(also “wallaby”, “joey”)
4
no cross above anything else
40
5. Ehara nö Aotearoa te warapï. Tuhia he rärangi, ki raro i ngä kupu e whakaatu ana i tënei.
 A wallaby is not a New Zealand native animal. Underline where it tells you this.
 
first sentence, or at least word “introduced”, underlined
11
  Total score:
10–13
2
 
8–9
0
6–7
24
4–5
27
2–3
36
0–1
11
Commentary:
Performance was quite strong for questions 1 and 3 but much weaker for questions 2, 4 and 5.
 
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