1. Copycat Te Tuhi Pre-Visit / Lesson 3: Personal Symbols
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2. Welcome to Copycat During this lesson we will be exploring…
Personal symbols
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3. So lets explore what Personal Symbols mean and what they look like…
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4. The word symbol means to represent something…
In sporting events the silver fern is a symbol that represents New Zealand
What sports teams can we think of that have the silver fern on their uniform?
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5. Symbols are usually very flat simple shapes with little colour.
What could this symbol mean?
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6. A Personal Symbol can help represent a person’s identity…
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7. A personal symbol may include things that are important to you, such as…
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8. Pattern and design to help tell someone about your culture and how important it is to you…
This pattern and many others can be seen in different types of polynesian tapa cloth.
The Koru shape can be seen in Maori carvings, paintings and ta moko (tattoo)
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9. The shape of your church or certain things in church
The shape of your church or certain things in church. This may help tell someone about your religion…
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A number may represent how many people are in your family. 6 5
This may tell someone how important family is to you… 7 3

11. A Personal Symbol may include things you enjoy or like doing…

12. Sports equipment may tell someone that you like to play a particular
What kind of sports does this person like to play?

13. The shape of an electronic object may tell someone about the things you like to use…
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14. Food may tell someone that you like eating particular
What kind of food does this person like?

15. If we put all those things together we can find out a lot about this person….

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What can we find out about this person?

17. So Personal Symbols can be
any of these things
Lets reflect on what we
have learnt so far… 6

18. So what have we learnt so far?
Personal symbols…
are usually very flat simple shapes with little colour.
Can help visually represent our identity
Can include things that are important to us like our culture, religion and family
Can include the things we like such as our favourite sport or food
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19. Now that we have learnt about symbols, we can begin to create our own…6
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Using our ‘identity’ artwork in the previous exercise, we will now create symbols for all the things that are important to us or enjoy doing
My name is…..and my favourite food is….
i have 2
sisters and 1 brother….
i enjoy playing…..
and my culture is important to me because…..
My family
Rugby
Our symbols will go around the outside of the body
culture
Jane’s identity
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20. In the next lesson we will explore what a “copy” and what an “original” means.
End of lesson