Peer feedback • Years 7–8 • Unit 10 Week 9

Peer Review Checklist

You are reviewing a poster on a topic you did not research. That is the point — if you can follow it, it works. Give one specific, usable piece of feedback, not a compliment.

Ingoa / Name

Akomanga / Class

Best for

The 15-minute structured feedback swap in Lesson 9.

Kaiako use

Reviewers complete this and keep it — it becomes a reference for their own reflection. Swap with someone who researched a different topic.

Ākonga use

Check the four elements are present, then answer each prompt with something specific enough to act on.

Linked next step

Your own reflection is on the Unit Reflection.

Te Ao Māori lens

Tuakana–teina works here: feedback is offered to lift the other person's work, not to rank it. Model one piece of specific feedback before students start, so “it's good” is visibly not enough.

Free to teach tomorrow, adaptable to your rohe

The checklist is ready to print. Te Wānanga is useful when you want a version matched to a different assessment format.

Adapt the prompts if your class submitted digital posters or slides.
Generate a shorter version for a quick mid-production check.
Save your adapted Unit 10 review pack in My Kete.

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Kaiako planning snapshot

Use length: 15 minutes — 2 to swap, 10 to review, 3 to return and act.
Grouping: Pairs, matched across different topics.
Prep: One per student. Reviewers keep their completed sheet.
Teaching move: Insist on the quotation in prompt 2. Students who have to quote the cause element notice when there isn't one.

🧺 Kai systems ⚖️ Trade-offs

What this sheet already gives you

A four-element presence check
Four structured feedback prompts
A quotation step that surfaces missing analysis
A “what I learned” prompt that builds class knowledge
Space for the author's one final improvement

Prompt 4 is not filler. It is how the class builds a picture of food security wider than any one student's research.

Ngā Whāinga Ako / Learning Intentions

We are learning to evaluate work against shared criteria.
We are learning to give feedback specific enough to act on.
We are learning from investigations other than our own.

Ngā Paearu Angitū / Success Criteria

I have checked all four elements are present before reading in detail.
My feedback names something specific that would make the poster stronger.
I can name one thing I learned from this poster that I did not know before.

First — are all four elements there?

Do not read the poster yet. Just look. Can you see all four elements?

Element	Visible?
The problem	☐ Yes ☐ No
The cause	☐ Yes ☐ No
The response	☐ Yes ☐ No
The evaluation	☐ Yes ☐ No

Now read it, and respond

Prompt	Your response
The evidence in the problem section is ______. One piece of evidence that would make it stronger:
The cause element says [quote it here]:
Does that explain why the system produces this problem, or only what happened?	☐ Yes ☐ Partially ☐ Not yet
The evaluation element is ______. Is it honest about what the response cannot solve?	☐ Yes ☐ Partially ☐ Not yet
One thing I learned from this poster that I did not know before:

Poster author — your one final improvement

You have two minutes. Read the feedback and make the single change that most improves your poster. Write what you changed.