Aliens Reasearch - Where would aliens live

 Aim: To make a habitat/world map of a place aliens could live

Equipment: Cardboard, paint, paintbrush, paper, scissors, glue. Paper plates, newspaper

Method: 

1. Cut the cardboard into a rectangular shape.

2. Glue a white piece of paper to the cardboard.

3. get out the paint and paint the paper how you want your world to look.

4. Make a UFO by getting paper plates out

5. cut paper plates to the size you want.

6. scrunch paper on top of the paper plates.

7. Paint the UFO.

8. Add more detail if wanted.

Research: 

It seems that no one actually knows what an alien planet would look like if they even exist. Many people seem to share a similar idea of what an alien planet would look like. Most people believe that the planet would have to be fairly similar to earth in the fact it has land and liquid of some sort (mainly water). Some people predict that the planet would look something like this

Results:

Discussion:

Conclusion:

Should the Treaty of Waitangi be celebrated

 Hi Guys!

Recently I have researched about the treaty of Waitangi and if it could actually still be celebrated.

There were a lot of things that happened over the times of the treaty being signed to now. There was a lot of controversy surrounding this topic as many people believed that it should be celebrated but there were also many people saying it shouldn't be celebrated.

One argument in a video I saw was saying the things written on the treaty didn't happen such as Maori getting equal rights with the Europeans coming into the countries. This can be seen multiple times throughout history and even now things liken pay and opportunity isn't equal. There are also stats such as Maori only taking up 15% of the population but they are 51% of prisoners in the country. They are 27% of the unemployed kiwis, and 61% of children taken into state care are Maori. This proves that the treaty may not have been fair as not everyone has equality.

Watch the video here

There are some positives though, as Maori tribes will be considered as citizens under the country and the British Crown. They won't lose all their land but are able to sell it to the Crown. But overall the idea was that the Maori people could keep sovereignty over the land.

Overall the ideas of the treaty were not completely upheld and well I do still think that people should at least commemorate the idea and the people that died to get what they had been wanting. But I wouldn't be surprised if the country nation day was changed or if the treaty is finally upheld.

BYE!

US Governement and Native American treaties

Hi Guys!

Recently in social studies, we have been learning about different treaties. we had to choose one to study on. The one I choose to go and research was the US Government and Native American treaties which were very important. 

Here is my presentation:

This should teach you a little bit more about the US Government and Native American treaties.

BYE!

Volcano - Olympus Mons

Team

Tobey, Lincoln & Chris

Aim

To make a realistic representation of a volcano.

Method

get a 750ml Water Bottle, 

Make PVA glue  by mixing flour, water, and salt (to stop it from molding)

scrunch up balls of paper dipped in PVA glue to shape the volcano

then add strips of paper on top,

make it smooth and then paint it.

Our goal is to make it resemble Olympus Mons on Mars.

Research

Our volcano is on the planet Mars, we chose it because it is the biggest volcano in our solar system, it erupted twenty-five million years ago. The volcano is a shield volcano so the magma slowly flows up and flows down the sides of the volcano.

Results

Our Volcano

Our volcano eruption: 

Olympus Mons

Population of NZ throughout the years 1836-1901 Maori vs European

Recently in Social Studies, we have been looking at the population data in NZ.

Here is the graph I made of it: 

What does this graph show us? This shows us that over time the Maori population dropped and the European population went up. This would mean that over time the population of New Zealand became majority from Europe.

 
Why do you think the number of Maori changed?
The amount of Maori changed because they were dying due to the introduction of diseases and they were killed by Europeans throughout wars and while they were taking away their land.
 
Why do you think the numbers of Europeans changed?
Because the land was sold to the Europeans bringing them over to New Zealand. They would of course have children and their children would have kids since they had way better-living conditions than Maori’s

BYE!