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Unit Plan: Kowhaiwhai Panels

Cross-curriculum Unit: Visual Arts and Mathematics

LEVEL DURATION 3 4/5 weeks

Achievement Objectives Being Assessed Learning Outcomes

Visual Arts Students will be able to explain what some Maori Communicating and Interpreting in the Visual Arts symbols mean. Students will: Students will be able to incorporate Maori symbols  Level 3: describe the ideas their own and into their art work in a creative and current manner. others' objects and images communicate. Students will demonstrate effective use of Visual Arts techniques shown using a variety of materials. Developing Ideas in the Visual Arts Students will:

 Level 3: develop and revisit visual ideas, in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination, supported by the study of artists' works.

Visual Arts Developing Practical Knowledge in the Visual Arts Students will:

 Level 3: explore some art-making conventions, applying knowledge of elements and selected principles through the use of materials and processes.

Mathematics and Statistics: Geometry and We are learning to reflect, rotate and translate our Measurement (Level 3) Maori symbols in our kowhaiwhai panel. Transformation In a range of meaningful contexts, students will be engaged in thinking mathematically and statistically. They will solve problems and model situations that require them to:

 Level 3: Describe the transformations (reflection, rotation, translation, or enlargement) that have mapped one object onto another.

AIMS Students will work to create an Aotearoa New Zealand in which Maori and Pakeha recognise each other as full Treaty partners, and in which all cultures are valued for the contributions they bring. Students will be creative, energetic, and enterprising.

LEARNING INTENTIONS

1. Students will be able to explain what some Maori symbols mean. 2. Students will be able to incorporate Maori symbols into their art work in a creative and current manner. 3. Students will demonstrate effective use of techniques shown using a variety of materials.

KEY COMPETENCIES

Thinking Using language, symbols, and texts

FOCUSING QUESTIONS

1. Why do Marae have kowhaiwhai panels? 2. What is the significance of Maori symbols? 3. Are symbols used in all cultures - how, where, why?

TEACHER BACKGROUND READING

 Paihia School: Arts in collaboration using Maori Contexts (Word) http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/documents/Paihia.doc

LEARNING SEQUENCE

Teaching and Learning Experiences Ongoing Assessment Approaches

Introduction to Maori symbols and meanings. Discussion of symbols and their meanings. Share pictures of kowhaiwhai panels. Discussion of what they mean, why they have them.

Share current kowhaiwhai panels e.g. from Te Papa marae. Practise drawing symbols. Decide on one panel pattern - repeat this three times, incorporating some or all of reflection, rotation, translation.

Summative Assessment

Finished art work - kowhaiwhai panel. Brief explanation of symbols used and what they mean; and what Mathematical transformations are in the pattern.

ASSESSMENT Arts

Learning Outcomes

1. Students will be able to explain what some Maori symbols mean.

2. Students will be able to incorporate Maori symbols into their art work in a creative and current manner.

3. Students will demonstrate effective use of techniques shown using a variety of materials.

Criteria

Students will:

1. use no more than four colours 2. use colours that reflect our urban, modern society 3. use paint and/or crayon that is applied thickly and tidily so that the finished work looks smooth 4. repeat the pattern at least three times 5. have some translation, rotation or reflection in the panel 6. explain the meaning of symbols in their panel

Mathematics and Statistics: Geometry and Measurement

LEVEL 3 Transformation

Criteria:

Students will: 1. be able to explain what reflect, rotate and translate mean. 2. be able to demonstrate this in their kowhaiwhai panel.

RESOURCES

Electronic

Arts Online

 Teacher Resource Exchange - Koru Patterns http://artsonline.tki.org.nz/resource-exchange/view_resource.php?res=429  Teacher Resource Exchange - AS90018 Heritage in Containment http://artsonline.tki.org.nz/resource-exchange/view_resource.php?res=63

Reviewed Resources

 Maori Art and Culture http://www.zeroland.co.nz/new_zealand_maori.html

New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars

 The Arts Exemplars http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/arts/index_e.php  Mathematics and Statistics Exemplar Project http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/maths/index_e.php