Term Two Inquiry Project

New Zealand Peoples – Mini Inquiry

L.I - WALHT: Evaluate positive and negative consequences of cultural interaction for individuals and society, from a range of perspectives.

L.I - WALHT: Identify ways in which past and present cultural interaction has influenced the development of New Zealand society.

Select a cultural group of interest and relevance to your class, and provide students with a range of resources on this groups’ cultural interaction in New Zealand.  Resources may be found at http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples/enhttp://www.teara.govt.nz/en/history-of-immigration
http://www.teara.govt.nz/new-zealanders/new-zealand-peoples/chinese/en
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/classroom/incident-at-featherston
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/classroom/human-rights-day
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/assisted-immigration-to-nz-from-the-uk
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/home-away-from-home
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/scandinavians/2

Choose a group of people that have moved to New Zealand.

When did this group of people come to New Zealand?

How does this group interact with New Zealand society?

Has the cultural group been discriminated against? If they have been discriminated against, explain how.

How has this group contributed to New Zealand society?

Present either on a poster or a powerpoint. 

Due on the last Friday of Week 8 - 15th June. 

Homework Project Weeks 5 and 6

Carrying on from some of the work that we have done looking at money in class, I have decided to give you a homework project that will allow you to explore budgeting in the real world.

WALHT: create a budget based upon needs and wants

Imagine that you have been given $10,000 (ten thousand NZ dollars) to create your dream bedroom. What would you spend that money on? I want you to prepare a budget of what you would spend the money on, and order what you purchase according to necessity. A bed is a necessity in a bedroom, so that has been put at the top of the list. The next most important thing is the TV, then the laptop bundle. This has been put in the order of needs and wants.

Present this information in a table like the one below complete with the price to show that you can work with a budget :

Bed	$500 (estimate)
TV	$300
Laptop bundle deal from Noel Leemings	$1,150
Total spent	$1,950

Success Criteria:

·         Create a budget based upon needs and wants

·         Stay within the $10,000 limit

·         Order your ‘purchases’ based upon need

·         Research the cost of items you want to purchase

·         Estimate the cost of items you want to purchase

You have two weeks to complete this project. It is due on the 9^th of March
Happy imaginary shopping!

Research Week 4.

At 12:50pm on February 22nd 2011, many Cantabrians were enjoying their day: students sitting in their classrooms; business people eating their lunch; workers working in their offices. Many of them were unaware of what would change in the next minute.

The rest, as they say, is history. We all know what happened on that fateful day last year as a magnitude 6.3 Earthquake struck Christchurch.

As New Zealand gathers to remember what happened, I want you to reflect on what you saw that day on the news, and what you have seen since on TV or in the newspapers.

[Note: I simply don't know if any of you have relatives that are in Christchurch that were effected by the Earthquake. Some of you may do, if this makes it difficult to complete this homework, please let Mr Caradus know].

My reflection questions to you are: 

• Where were you on February 22, 2011? 
• What did you think when you heard the news? 
• What images or videos have you seen that you will always remember. Post a hyperlink to these videos or pictures. 
• Out of adversity comes opportunity. If you had an opportunity create a sculpture or a monument for the people of Christchurch to remember the Earthquake, what sort of monument would you choose? Have a look at some of the monuments around the world with Google to find one you would like to use.

Like always, this homework is due on Friday!
Have a great week :) 

Swimming Sports

Wow, what a fantastic day Friday was at Swimming Sports. I have caught some of the action from the day on my digital camera and my video camera. 


Follow this link to check out the photos I took at Swimming Sports: 
http://s1078.photobucket.com/albums/w492/MrCaradus/Swimming%20Sports/  




Follow this link to check out the videos that I took at Swimming Sports:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCaradus?feature=watch

Research for Wk 3

The All Blacks won the supreme award at the Halberg awards last week. Graham Henry won coach of the year, and Richie McCaw won Sportsman of the year as well.

My Questions to you are: 


Who are the Halberg awards named after? Who was this person? 


Choose one Halberg winner (except the 2011 winners) and tell Room 13 why they won their particular award. Clicking on this link will take you to a website that has all the starting information you need. 


Remember your research is due on Friday. You can either post it to the blog, or email it to Mr. Caradus. If you don't have internet at home or can't use internet at home, ask Mr. Caradus in the morning if you can use the class computers.

Research for wk 2

We have all enjoyed another long weekend because of Waitangi Day. However, do you know what Waitangi Day is about?


For this week's research I want you to answer two questions: 


What is Waitangi Day?
Why is Waitangi Day important to all New Zealanders? 


Mr. Caradus wants your answer in a written paragraph. Remember to put your answer in your own words. Do not copy and paste your your answer from another website. 


Check out these websites for your answers:  http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitangi_Day


Remember, this research is due by Friday morning on 10th of February. It must be either posted to this blog thread or emailed to Mr. Caradus. 

Cool websites to help your learning

Khan Academy
This is an american based website that has a lot of tutorial videos that will help you with Maths and a lot of other subjects like social studies, business and history. You can also sign up to practice your maths skills and see watch yourself unlock harder problems as you learn more.

BBC Schools
This is a British based website that has a lot of pages dedicated to lots of different things that we learn about in school. Find an activity that you can use to help your learning in a particular area...maybe maths or science?!


NZ History
This is a NZ website where you can learn heaps about the history of New Zealand.

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a great website to use sparingly. It is a giant encyclopedia that gives you good general knowledge about topics that we are learning about in school.


Typing Tutor
Speed up your typing by practicing it using this online tutor. Work you way up to see if you can type at 80 words per minute.

TED
TED is a website dedicated to changing ideas, changing attitudes, changing lives and ultimately changing the world. There are lots of inspirational and educational videos here on a range of different topics.

Electrical Circuits   Electronics   First Aid  Helping animals - PAWS

Room 13's blogging guidelines

Room 13 have talked about how to keep safe while we are online and using our blog and these are our blogging guidelines. We have all agreed that we will follow these guidelines to keep us safe.

We have AGREED that...

*We will only use our FIRST name and will NEVER give out personal details such as phone numbers and addresses

*We will tell our family members and friends to only comment using their FIRST names only or describe themselves as 'Jack's Mum' (for example)

*We will get our teacher to CHECK all posts before they are published

*We will only use the blog for SCHOOL stuff, not as a social networking site

*We will use APPROPRIATE language and do our best not to offend others

*We will use CORRECT spelling

*We will ask others for their PERMISSION before publishing their work or photos

Our blog is a positive place for us to share our school life with friends, family and whanau.

All comments are "moderated" by Mr Caradus, which means he checks them and they have to be approved before they are published onto our blog.

It is VERY important to keep SAFE online so we have all agreed to these guidelines