Check:
Have you included the process for harvesting potatoes, kumara, corn and pumpkin?
Have you talked about grading and storage?
Have you included tikanga, such as karakia, whakataukī and maramataka?
Have you explained (in detail) what is done before, during and after harvesting?
Have you talked about tools used?
Look back to last weeks work for more detail on what is required.
You should be finishing your assessment now - Make sure you include your references.
Using the resources below and the pukapuka in the whare, research to find out the following:
Use the following crops:
Evidence of kūmara, rīwai, kānga, paukena is required.
Explain the preparation process for harvesting of crops in accordance with tikanga and crop requirements.
Make sure that pre- or post-harvesting of crops is explained. Think of the important things in Te Ao Māori - like tikanga - using karakia, following maramataka, What conditions mean you cannot harvest (Ikura for wāhine)? Which atua is/are related to the process?
Explain at least one for pre harvesting and one post harvesting in detail. At least a paragraph of explanation. Can you find an appropriate karakia or whakataukī for the situation?
Equipment, methods and tools for harvesting are explained. Talk about which equipment is used, what things are done by hand and what is done by tools - what tools, what were they made with, what did they do?
Explain the importance of timing in the harvesting of crops in accordance with tikanga and crop requirements. Optimum timing in relation to the harvesting of crops is explained. Think about the maturity of the crop, maramataka, observation of Matariki or Puanga, weather, companion planting, evidence of two required.
Explain the preparation process of crops for storage and grading in accordance with tikanga and crop requirements. Processes for the preparation of crops for storage during harvest is explained including curing, washing and drying.
The selection of crops for grading during harvest is explained. Explain the use of seeds for regeneration, animal feed, whānau consumption, marketing or trading - evidence of two is required.
The storage of graded crops post-harvest is explained: outdoors, indoors, quality - evidence of one is required.