Traditional Foods Unit

 Maori Kai 

Growing and gathering traditional foods was a big change for the Maori Culture. The Maori ancestors brought many edible plants from their homeland such as kumara, yam, and taro, these crops then had to adapt to the new environment.  In New Zealand, the climate was much colder than their home. 

Maori had a very traditional way of cooking food for their families, which was called a Hangi (Earth oven), this method was very useful for cooking meals for large families or big gatherings. Maori did not make pottery, so for them to boil water was to place a red hot stone in a wooden bowl of liquid. Nowadays, people use ovens, stovetops, microwaves, and other cooking sources to cook food. Hangi's are still used but not as often as they did, but mostly used for special occasions. 

Social Studies - Human Rights

 Human rights - Hitler View

Hilter said “the jets were responsible for bringing negroes in the Rhineland” this shows that Hilter was against anti-semitism because he showed that he didn’t like the Jews, he didn’t count them as the white race, and they lower the cultural-political level. 

“The Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end... spying on unsuspicious German girls he plans seduce” Hitler wanted to take the Jewish out because of what they did to the German girls, He wanted to keep the German a pure race.

Extracting DNA - Science

 Aim: To extract DNA. 

Method: 

1. mush half a kiwi fruit into a zip lock bag with a splash of water and a small teaspoon of salt. 

2. Strain the solution through a cloth into a beaker. 

3. Add a squirt of dishwashing liquid and stir together. 

4. Pour the liquid into a testtube. 

5. Place the test tube into a beaker filled with warm water. 

6. Leave for 10 minutes. 

7. slowly pour 5ml of methylated spirits down the inside of the test tube. 

Results: 

Discussion: 

You find DNA inside an organism, inside that organism in a cell, every cell has a nucleus which is the control centre of the cell. Each nucleus is made up of 46 chromosomes and those chromosomes represent your DNA. 

Did you know we share 60% of our DNA with a banana. And we share 96% of DNA with a gorilla although we are more chimpanzees than we are gorillas. 

Conclusion: This experiment worked really well. 

Social Studies - The Holocaust

Germany 

In social science we are overlooking the Holocaust we are starting by looking at the big depression.

During the global depression, Germany was hit the hardest. The worldwide depression affected many countries, leaving people without a home, with no money, unemployed, and being affected by World War II. An obvious consequence that occurred was a huge rise in unemployment. Numbers went from 1.4 million unemployed to 2 million people.  By the time Hitler became the leader, 1 and 3 people were unemployed. Americans endured the biggest crisis in the nation’s history, at its worst over a quarter of the workforce was unemployed. Housing prices went up to a percentage of 67, making it very hard for families to have a home.  This shows that the global depression had a big effect on everybody no matter their situation. 

Germany was demanded to sign the Treaty of Versailles, to ensure peace between countries but to take the power away. This treaty was made at the end of World War 1,  the treaty was produced by Paris peace, and was signed in 1919. By signing this treaty, at the start, the treaty caused anger, hate, and revulsion of the society.  Germany lost many rights as a country or an individual. Germany was made to pay reparations of 70 Billion dollars in today’s money. This took them a very long time to pay off and finished paying this is off on 3rd October 2010. 

The great depression reached right around the world starting in the United States. The reason it reached over here in New Zealand was that overseas countries brought New Zealand’s goods, after that, they did no longer buy the goods which meant there was no income coming into the country. New Zealand is an agricultural country. Unemployment in New Zealand rose to 12%, and those who were lucky enough to keep their jobs lost 20% of their income.

Wind Racers

Aim: To make the fastest wind racer. 

Method: 

1. Glue popsicle sticks together, into a big triangle.  

2. Plastic bag over the popsicle sticks. 

3. Add string to the end and pull it over to the edge of the platform

4. Add the bag over the edges. 

5. Blow with a leaf blower. 

Results: 

Before we started this activity we learned the 4 forces (Thrust, gravity, weight, drag). 

We used our knowledge and what we weren't over the topic to create a sail for the wind racers and see who for the furthest. We placed 4th. 

Star Fish Poem - Social Studies

 The main message of this poem is a mand trying to make difference to the starfish by chucking them back into the ocean. And another man says that what he is doing is useless. 

"I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?" "The sun is up and the tide is going out. And if I don't throw them in they'll die." "But, young man, don't you realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along with it. You can't possibly make a difference!"

News Paper Article - Social Studies

 Newspaper Article 

 The main problem in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is that there is a great pacific garbage patch in the ocean. A garbage patch is a gyre that is circulating around in a certain place of the ocean, causing a garbage patch underneath the water, which can not be seen. This is caused by the rubbish that has ended up in the ocean. The movement of the water is causing the rubbish to get stuck in this gyre and it’s getting bigger by the second. Tones and tones of marine life die every day because of this environmental catastrophe. 100 million marine animals die from plastic waste alone, ⅓ of the marine life is found tangled in the litter.  Fisherman's abandoned fishing gear makes up a big population of rubbish in the ocean estimated at around 8-12 tons in the ocean each year. Meaning the cause of this is death. This shows that because of one mistake it’s turned into a bigger situation.