The Treaty of Houston

The Treaty I have researched is the Treaty of Houston. It was a Treaty signed between the Texas Commissioners and the Cherokee tribe. It relates to the Treaty of Waitangi as it was created to stop conflicts between two parties of varied development.

Maori and European populations 1836-1901

In social studies,
we have made graphs on the populations of the Maoris and the Europeans every 5 years between 1836 and 1901

Here is mine:

Questions

1. What does this graph show us?: The more Europeans that arrived, the more the Maori population decreased

2. Why do you think the numbers of Maori change?: They either went off on ships or died in the musket wars

3. Why do you think the numbers of Europeans changed?: Because more Europeans came on ships and were bred in colonies

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Maori Mythology

In social studies, we have been discussing Maori mythology.

Discuss the idea of Mythology/stories in religion, and the role myths and stories play in society?: They make people believe that back then there was a God that created the world. It is providing people with an understanding of how the world was created, as well-meaning to their life.

What similarities are there between the myths and stories of Màori and the first British Missionaries?: They all believe that there is some type of god that created the whole back then

Why would the difference between Màori beliefs and English beliefs cause conflict?:
Both the Maori mythology and Christain religion emphasised worship and solidarity of their god/s respectfully

We have also been talking Maori deities. Mine is Tane Mahuta, God of forests and Birds:

Technology and Change

In social stuies we have been doing technology and change. We learnt about the Stone age, the Ancient Egyptians, and the Romans.

Stone age: We learnt about the different ages, the Paleolithic and the Neolithic, the different tools they used, and the cave paintings they made. Then we made our own. Mie was some people praying to an almighty fish lord

Ancient Egyptian: We learnt about what they used to make the pyramids such as sandstone and limestone. We also learnt about hieroglyphs and mummifying. We then made mummies ourselves.

Romans: We learnt about the way that rome was run and all sorts of different thing they invented. Then we made a display about how Julius caesar was assassinated. Then we presented it at an exhibition. 

The exhibition was really cool and I liked all the displays.

Here is a video of everything

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Thank you for reading my blog, I had a lot of fun in this unit.

Egyptian Pyramids

The ancient Egyptian pyramids were large stone triangles in the middle of Egypt. They were and still are marvels of engineering. Commonly made of limestone and other stone materials used to form large structures that were the eternal home of the dead pharaohs and nobles. The oldest pyramid in the world is the Pyramid of Djoser. The largest pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Giza at 139 metres tall

In social studies, we made our own pyramids out of Mega Bloks. My group's pyramid was the largest and probably the Great Pyramid of Giza out of the lot.

I had fun with this and hope we can do more with the mega bloks

Please leave a comment to tell me what I can do better

Ancient Egyptian Inventions

The Ancient Egyptians are famous for doing many things, mummifying, the pyramids and other things like that. But one thing they also did was invent. They invented some of the most amazing things, here's some:

Surgical Instruments: One of the parts of the mummification process is removing the internal organs. To do this the Egyptians invented tools that they used to cleanly (sort of) remove the organs and stitch them back up



Police: The Egyptians had many nobles living at the time, as well as pharaohs. So to protect them and their prized possessions, they invented policing forces to stand guard and keep order




Irrigation: The Egyptians had a lot of people to feed. So, as a result, they had large farms. To water those farms, they dug large canals to feed water to their crops. They would build their farms next to the River Nile so that when the river burst its banks (as it did everyyear), it would enrich the soil with water and then they would start farming. Sort of like a large automatic farm in Minecraft. Some people still use systems like this today, even in modern Egypt



Pyramids: Like I mentioned before, the Ancient Egyptians built pyramids. These were used to bury the fallen kings and their noblemen, such as advisors and all-round rich people. They were very large an had lots of chambers to house all their gold and jewels



This is just some of the great inventions that the Ancient Egyptians had, I hope you found this interesting. Please leave a helpful comment

Cave Art

In social studies, we are learning about the art that humans made during the Stone Age. It is very interesting to learn about this, as they used different mixtures of pastes and liquids as paint to create wonderous pieces of art.

We also created our own art by designing our own cave art. We added creatures and people, among other things

In my picture (though not all is there) It contains some people praying to the holy fish lord. Then above that is the Council of Water-Sheep, watching over the worshippers, making sure they don't stray too far from the original culture of The Legendary Water-Sheep, with a picture memorium in the corner

We then rolled glue on the walls, tossed sand on it and painted it red to give it a vintage effect. The whole class then painted it 

Thanks for reading, I had a lot of fun painting, even though it killed my fingers.

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Device usage for 10Bu

Mr Wilson challenged us to record our device usage over the weekend, here are the results

And here is a timeline of the history of the mobile phone

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Careers - Social Studies #1

In social studies, we are doing careers. The purpose of the unit is to help get an understanding of what we want to do when we can get jobs and how we can get there. The career that I was given was an office administrator, which is the person that does all the budgets and stock-taking around the office. At the moment in social studies we are working on budgeting our lives around the monthly deduction as those people, these can include Taxes, fuel costs, rent and KiwiSaver.

This unit is really fun as it gives us insight into what it is like to have a full-time job

Boomerangs in Social Studies

In Social Studies we have painted boomerangs as a project to end our migration topic. My boomerang is blue, with yellow, black and teal stripes. It also has teal and red dots on the ends.

My boomerang is dominantly blue because it is the colour of Ford, Capitalism and America, three of my favourite things. And the stripes are because all Fords look good with stripes. The dots are there as well.

I had fun with this, the throwing of them especially. I hope you enjoyed my blog, please leave constructive feedback (*cough* Kaiden)

The Stolen Generation

What is the stolen generation and what does this song say about

The Stolen Generation
The Stolen Generation was a large group of children that were taken from their families and sent away. These kids were half cast children. Half Cast meant mixed race between Aborigine and White. They were taken to schools and foster homes and taught to do jobs that fit into the new society

The Song
The song is Took The Children Away by Archie Roach. It is about how children were taken from their families and the lasting impact it had on those families

Song Link: Took The Children Away: Archie Roach

Child Slavery - Social Studies

This term in social studies we have been learning about slavery and child slavery. We were asked to make a presentation about either Child Trafficking, Child Soldiers or Child Slavery

Here is mine (and Nathans):




My research was about the use of children as slaves in African Nations.

Something new that I learnt is that 72.1 Million Children are used in child slavery

My most useful resource was the International Labour Organization website. It has lots of information about the situation and what they are doing to stop it.

Thank you for reading my blog post. Please comment as it helps me work on my learning and is good feedback

The Underground Railroad

In social studies, we are learning about the slaves in the 1800's. I have made a slide show about Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad, let me know what you think:




The underground railroad was important to the slaves as knowing about it helped the slaves get through the tough times of working in the fields

Please give me feedback as it helps me improve on my work

Human Rights Poster

One of the tasks we were given in social studies was to make a poster displaying all the human rights. This is mine, hope you like it:

This was a fun task and I would do something like it again.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

Our Rankings Of Human Rights

In Social Studies my group and I have been assessing and ranking on what we think are the most important human rights. Let me know what you think in the comment section

Our Rankings Of The Human Rights

Let me know if you agree with these because feedback is always welcome.

Thanks for reading