Y-Chart - Tūtohi-Y
Y-Chart
Tūtohi-Y
Explanation
The Y-chart is a tool to encourage students to see beyond the obvious and to create
a greater understanding of a topic. It is a great tool to use for analysing e.g.
preferred future career options, evaluating e.g. assessing this year’s school whakaari
and in design e.g. what could a great noho marae look like, sound like, feel like?.
How to introduce a strategy
Until students are familiar with any strategy always begin by:
 naming the strategy
 explaining why the strategy is being used,
 providing any important tips they need to remember or do to complete the task
successfully, and
 carefully explaining the procedure.
See How to introduce a technique or strategy for more information and an example
language frame for how to introduce a new technique or strategy.
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Procedure
This strategy works with either individuals or groups.
Provide each student with a copy of a Y-chart, or ask them to prepare one of their
own. Describe the scenario, topic or subject to students and ask them to brainstorm
each of the three categories (See, Hear, Feel).
To help spark ideas for others, you can facilitate a discussion with the whole class or
split the students into smaller groups to compare charts and note down any ideas
from others that they like.
‘Ki tā te karu’ (See) – encourage students to list the actual things that they can see,
the concrete and the obvious.
‘Ki tā te taringa’ (Hear) - encourage students to imagine the words and sounds that
people could hear as well as internal dialogues e.g. ‘I’m so
nervous’. Imagination can play an important role here.
‘Ki tā te ngākau’ (Feel) - encourage students to think of tactile and kinesthetic
possibilities and emotional responses a person might feel.
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Application: NZC The Arts (Dance) Level 8
The Y-chart could be used in any one of the four disciplines – dance, drama, music
or visual arts to drill beneath the obvious and to think about what the works will be
like as an experience from a performer’s perspective and the audiences’ perspective.
Students could take a pūrākau (Māori legend) e.g. the separation of Ranginui and
Papatūānuku and use the Y-chart to get a deep feel of what they want their original
dance works to look like, feel like, sound like for the audience. It will help students
understand what they want the audience to experience. Use it at the concept
development phase.
Kaupapa:
Te wehenga o Ranginui rāua ko Papatūānuku
Topic:
The separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku
Ki tā te karu (looks like):
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angry
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sad
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moves fast and furious
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sharp at times
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turbulent
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dark
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strong
Ki tā te taringa (sounds like):
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music dark and beating steady
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sound building to a climax in parts
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music very heavy at times with parts that are quick and furious
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drum beating steady at times as if a person was burdened by decisions
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percussion that sounds like arguing and chatter
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sound of the elements – wind, storm
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bird chatter and animal scratching
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bubbling from the earth
Ki tā te ngākau (feels like):
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the heart racing as it builds to a climax
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anxious at times
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heavy like it’s hard to move
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immense sadness at separation
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revengeful
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confrontational
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battling
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focussed and purposeful
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Application: NZC Reo Māori Level 7
Students could create a drama/role play to retell a myth or legend that they have
read or heard e.g. ‘How Māui Slowed the Sun’ or ‘Rona’.
Ki tā te karu
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a Tamanuiterā
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a Māui me ōna tuākana e huna ana
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ngā taura
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te patupatu, te hahau
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te ahi
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te tūkino
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te kauae raro o te kuia o Māui
Ki tā te taringa
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te auē o te waha i te mamae
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“Whakamutua! Whakamutua!”
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he tangi āwhina
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“Kūmea! Kaua e tukuna!”
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Te pā, te ngau o ngā taonga whawhai (ki a Tamanuiterā)
Ki tā te ngākau
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te mamae, te tārūrū
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te panapana o te manawa
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te manawawera
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te ngenge nui, te pau o te hau
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Language Support
What does it look like?
He pēhea te āhua ki te titiro atu?
What does it sound like?
He pēhea te āhua ki te whakarongo atu?
What does it feel like?
He pēhea te āhua ki te whāwhā atu?
He pēhea te pānga ki te ngākau?
He aha ngā kare ā-roto ka puta ake?
Have you got anything to add?
He mea anō hei tāpiri?
What other adjectives can you think of
He aha ētahi atu kupu āhua hei
to describe ...?
whakaahua i …?
There’s no ‘wrong’ answer – just say
Karekau ana he whakautu hē –
what comes to mind.
whakaputaina ko te mea ka toko ake.
Your ideas may spark ideas for other
Mā ōu nā whakaaro, tērā ka tipu ake he
people.
whakaaro anō i ētahi atu.
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Comments
 Depending on the topic or purpose of the task other splits could be pros and
cons, safe and unsafe, positive and negative, ethical and unethical, individual and
group, fair and unfair, practical and unpractical, adult and teen, teacher and
student etc.
 Using the Y-Chart and Split Y-Chart gives students a sense of ownership at the
pre-product stage which leads to greater motivation and ideas for the final
product such as a report, drama, role play, song, poem, story, proposal or art
work.
Template
See Ako Panuku Teacher Planner for English and Māori versions of the Y-Chart
template.
Download a Y-Chart template from Global Education Website.
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