:Mere’s Whakapapa
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Approach: Station Level: Year 8
704KB
Focus: Understanding whakapapa (family tree).
Resources: 7 stickers (Mere, Ana, Pita, Jim, Hone, Koro Tio, Kuia Ruhi).
Questions/instructions:

Mere has written a story about her family.
Here is her story.
Mere’s story tells some of her whakapapa (family tree).

 

My name is Mere and I live on a farm. My mother’s name is Ana and she likes to bake cakes. My father, Pita, likes to ride our horse on the farm. Dad’s younger brother, Uncle Jim, helps Dad work on the farm.
My little brother’s name is Hone. Sometimes Hone and I go fishing with our grandparents. We call our grandparents Koro Tio and Kuia Ruhi. They used to take Dad fishing when he was a little boy.

 
  % responses
y8
Use the stickers to show Mere’s family tree.
Stickers placed to show:
Koro Tio is married to Kuia Ruhi:
 
yes, top right
90
[yes, middle left]
3
Ana is married to Pita:
yes, middle left
90
[yes, top right]
5
Hone and Mere are siblings: yes, children of Ana and Pita
93
yes, not children of Ana and Pita
3
Pita and Jim are siblings:
yes, children of Koro Tio and Kuia Ruhi
81
yes, not children of Koro Tio and Kuia Ruhi
1
Commentary
Seventy-nine percent of the year 8 students got the entire family tree correct.
 
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