:Symbols of New Zealand
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Approach: Station Level: Year 4 and year 8
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Focus: Relating symbols to things that are special to New Zealand.
Resources: 8 stickers (farming, trawler, sheep, logging, fern, Parliament, settlers/discovery, city of sails).
Questions/instructions:
In New Zealand we use symbols to show some things that are special to our country.
Use the stickers to show the best words for the symbols. 
 
% responses
y4
y8
Left:
farming
85
96
Right:
trawler
30
67
Left:
sheep
52
76
Right:
logging
41
70
Left:
fern
60
85
Right:
Parliament
67
94
Left:
settlers/discovery
43
84
Right:
city of sails
55
81
Total score:
7–8
13
54
5–6
33
31
3–4
33
10
0–2
21
5
Commentary
The most identifiable symbols were farming and Parliament. About 40 percent more year 8 than year 4 students placed all the symbols correctly.
 
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