This term for Social Studies we are learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. Even though we know a lot about the treaty we still don't know everything about what happened before and while the treaty was being signed. We were then asked to create a history road about five events that happened before the treaty was signed. This is what I have made.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Monday, October 19, 2020
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Social Studies - Know Your Places
- Know Your Place -
For the past few weeks for Social Studies, we have been trying out a new tool called Prezi. Prezi is a site that helps you create a presentation and lets you write in it, it also can give templates for you to use and make your presentation look better. For us to understand the tool better we were given the task to find places around Christchurch and the Canterbury region that have importance to the region and places that are important to us.
I learnt quite a lot of new things that I never knew about Christchurch or Canterbury, for example, lytteltons history and how it actually helped shape Canterbury to how it is today. Finding out Hornby High Schools history was actually the most interesting thing as I didn't know much about the school before researching about it. I think next time we should be able to research places that are solely important to us because I feel like I want to know more about the places that are important to me and my childhood.
Monday, September 7, 2020
Social Studies - Egyptian Technology Essay
How it works is there is a base which has roman numerals on to tell the time. There is something called a Gnomon, which is the part of the sundial which casts a shadow when the sun hits it. The sun casts a shadow and hits the base which has the roman numerals and covers them which tells the time. When the sun is at its highest point of the day or midday, the shadow is at its shortest place. When the sun is lower, in the afternoon the shadow is at its longest. You may think, why can’t I use a stick instead, if you try it out it wouldn’t actually work. The sun changes when a season changes as the earth axis changes the height of the sun, this means that you can’t use a stick as it wouldn’t be accurate.
Compared to before clocks now have become much more efficient as a pendulum is used instead of a Gnomon. They have also become smaller and more convenient for people these days to use. It has also become digital due to technological advancements and because cellular devices have become one of the biggest things used today. The difference between an ancient sundial and a clock is how they use the sun. A sundial uses the real sun and is quite accurate whereas a clock uses a makeshift sun, called a mean sun, which assumes to move orderly at all times of the year. This is only one thing that the Egyptians created that are still being used today in modern times.
Another thing that the Egyptians created was papyrus paper. Papyrus paper is an extremely early version of the paper that was used in life. This is important because it helped us get to our paper now, which is made with tree bark. Papyrus paper was made out of the Papyrus plant, which looks like little palm trees. The papyrus plant was used for many things for example sails, cloths, mats and cords. Instead of using the leaves of the papyrus plant instead, they used the root as it worked better than the thin leaves of the plant. Making papyrus paper is actually quite easy, all you need is papyrus plants, something to pound it down, water, and a burnisher, to make the paper smoother. The Egyptians would gather the papyrus plants, split the roots from the leaves, cut the roots in half, and then soak them in water for a day. They would then lay the roots across one another and pound them into strips. You would then soak it again for around three days, press it for three days and then burnish them with a smooth stone before it would be used. Compared to before the paper we use today is so much more different as we use tree pulp in the same way, but instead of pounding it down, we fit the tree pulp from water and let it dry for a day. The paper these days are also less time consuming as anyone at home can make paper in thirty minutes, instead of waiting for almost a week. This is another thing that the Egyptians have created that have still been used today.
The sundial and Papyrus paper are only two things that the Egyptians helped create. So much more has been created by them which have also helped shape human society today. Without the technology that our ancestors created, we wouldn’t be able to function as we do now, our world would work differently.
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Students and Cellphones
- Yes they are
What must you achieve
(in this paragraph I am trying to show/prove/explain that)
- Students are negatively affected by cellphones
Information
(Key evidence/information you want to include)
- Why attracted
- Time spent on phones
- Effects that happen when overusing phones
Delufiy
(best paragraph structure to convey this is)
- Lawyer paragraph
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Cellphones have negative effects on students. This matters because it can affect their mental states while on social media. It also matters because students will also start to depend on technology than reality and the people around them. Students are attracted to cellphones because they use social media to talk to people around them. They are also attracted to cellphones because of the people around them using them. This can negatively affect students as they can be cyberbullied and judged quite easily. It can also cause them to become addicted to cellphones and social media and rely on phones more than the people around them. Teenagers spend a lot of time on cellphones to pass time which can also cause them to become addicted as they have nothing better to do. They are also addicted to cellphones as they find it can distract them from the people and problems around them. This can cause negative effects such as poor eyesight, headaches, poor attention span and more. These can affect teenagers greatly as it can cause them to become distracted while in school or make them unable to get a job that they want in the future. Instead of focusing on studies they instead focus on what people think of their social media accounts and what people they follow are doing. These are only some points on why cellphones negatively affect students, Phones are useful but sometimes they can cause more problems than talking to people.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Technology
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Real Estate Agents
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Matariki Vs Good Friday
- getting my research went really well because I knew a lot about Matariki before I had started, I just had to research about Good Friday and write down my information.
What didn't go so well and why?
- Making the poster didn't go so well because I didn't have enough time to plan it out properly and write all my information
If you were to do this again what would you do differently and why?
- I would plan it our properly and choose what to write, I would also add more decorations so that the poster itself looks better.
Friday, June 19, 2020
Myanmar Refugees
What went well and why?
- The research went pretty well because I was given a lot of time to research. I finished the actual presentation quite quickly as I had already written all of my paragraphs while I was doing my research.
What didn't go well and why?
- I had written quite a lot for my research so I didn't really know what to write for the presentation itself.
If you were to do this again what would you do differently and why?
- I would give myself more time to be able to write everything again and add better photos.
Friday, May 15, 2020
DNA Testing
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YES OR NO: YES
WHY:
-Want to find out if I have distant relatives
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-How it is done
-Agree
-Would like to find out if actually Fijian
-How much of my ethnicity is true
-My ancestors
-Distant relatives?
-Nice to try though
-Conclude
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DNA testing is when you give your DNA to check something out, it could be to check your genes, find out if you are actually part of your family etc. Some people think that DNA testing isn’t good while others think that it’s a good chance to find out information you wouldn’t even know about. If I had the chance to get DNA tested I would. I would try it out because I would like to know if I am actually Fijian, it would be interesting to find out if I wasn’t and what I would’ve actually been. I would also like to know how much of my ethnicity is true, am I actually Fiji-Indian or am I something completely different. If I took a test I would like to find out about my ancestors, my family don’t really know who our ancestors are and If a test could tell me it would be really fun to see with my family. I would also take a test to find out if I have distant relatives, I wonder if I ever had family that I never knew I would have, it would be interesting to find that out too. Sometimes DNA testing isn’t good as some companies violate your privacy to sell your information to other companies or governments, sometimes they can scam you if you don’t choose the right company. This is why you should be quite careful with the company you choose, always look at the reviews to see if they are legit or frauds. It’s still nice to try if I ever got the chance to because I could find out so much stuff that I might have never known of, it could make me aware of how cultural I could be. These are some reasons why I would like to try DNA testing, it would be a little weird to try out but it seems fun, especially when I could learn so much about myself.
Journey Towards a Better Life
Life for this Filippino Immigrant has been better since they came to New Zealand. This matters because when they lived in the Philippines they didn’t feel that safe. It also matters because life over in the Philippines isn’t as easy as it is in other countries. In the text, it is explained that it is not compulsory to send your child to school, if you want your child to work then you can do that and they can’t say a thing. The healthcare is also very bad, if you want to be looked at properly or at the same time you have to hire a private doctor as public doctors are very busy. Public hospitals are often busy as doctors are given no breaks and are often harassed, this makes doctors jobs much harder than before. In New Zealand the doctor-patient ratio is 1 doctor per 300 patients, in the Philippines, it is 1 doctor per 800 patients which is insane. Another thing is crime, In the Philippines robberies and murders constantly happen. You have to be very careful with your belongings as they can be stolen easily. So many murders and robberies take place that the news only picks the most threatening ones. This is very bad because many people lose important things or get hurt nightly. These are some reasons on why life has been better for this Immigrant since moving to New Zealand. They feel much safer in a different country than their own which is a big deal. They are glad they moved to New Zealand because if they didn’t they might not have been able to have the same future as they have now.
Monday, April 20, 2020
Migration
Friday, April 17, 2020
Migration
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Jews In Nazi Germany
Some links I used to help me -
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust#section_10
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/why-did-hitler-hate-jews/#source-357344
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Child Soldiers

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Iqbal's Human Rights
Monday, February 24, 2020
Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery, In 1849 she escaped into freedom and became the most famous “conductor” for the Underground Railroad. She risked her life to save hundreds of slaves from the south.
The Underground Railroad is a system that Tubman used to carry enslaves people out into freedom. It was a network of people that helped fatigued slaves escape into Northern America and Canada. They hid people in Churches, Private homes and schoolhouses. Code names for the safe houses were commonly named as “Stations” Or “Depots”. The other slaves that were helping Harriet were called “Conductors” or “Stationmasters”.
Spirituals are a form of music that explains slaves longing or suffering while working. Singing gives them a drive to carry on with their work or get their mind of working. Some songs had meanings that only slaves knew. Some songs were signs that the coast was clear and that they could escape. An example of this is Swing low sweet chariot, the song is helping slaves escape when the song is sung randomly at night. It was a signal for slaves that the coast was clear and they could escape while they had time.
Harriet Tubman - https://www.biography.com/activist/harriet-tubman
Underground Railroad - https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/underground-railroad
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Spirituals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=v8frEt6w4G8&feature=emb_title
The song is about how people can escape slavery when the song is sung.
Monday, February 17, 2020
The Atlantic Slave Trade
This week for Social Studies we have started to learn about Human rights and the Atlantic Slave Trade. We were asked to make a map and write about the slave trade and the main places that shaped the trade. This is my map that I have done.


