Woodstock against Vietnam

     Today in Social Studies, we learned about the Woodstock concert of 1969. It was a 3-day concert held by the people to protest against the ongoing Vietnam War, taking place in Southeast Asia. We listened to a few songs, explaining and protesting against the war, and that it should just end, while also bonding over the music and concert.

I picked the song, "Give Peace a Chance" by John Lennon, during his time in the Plastic Ono band.

The song was about how people kept talking about politics and how they constantly sweat over the war. They sing about forgetting about these for even a moment, and to 'give peace a chance'.

Map: ignore the one for Vietnam

Making Salts

     In Science class, we were tasked to make a copper oxide mixture with some sulfuric acid to make something. At that time, I did not know what we were making, and so I thought that it was just a random experiment. But, now we're blogging about it.

Aim/Objective: Mix copper oxide with an acid to produce copper sulfate salt.

Methods: heating, mixing, evaporation

Results: blue water; appears slimy, crystal salt; jagged and uneven

Conclusion: After evaporating the mixture after the process of a few days, crystals have formed and under examination under a microscope, appear jagged and uneven. But hey, what do I expect? 

My Maps again - ANZAC

    The Gallipoli Campaign was a battle fought over in Turkey between the British, Australians and New Zealanders against the Ottoman Empire or Turkey in WW1. 

This is the map that we used for our other works. It's pretty much the same map that we used for our Parihaka and the other one, but everything we've got is on there. 

My map: My map again

Kahui bird info

      Mohua. It is a kahui in Hornby High School, and a bird out in the wilderness. It is a small bird with yellow feathers, and is also endangered. 

Their diet consists of small insects and worms, occasionally also some seeds that they can find. They migrate in numerous groups and sometimes, even migrate with groups of other birds. 

Over the years, the Mohua population has declined from the hundred thousandths all the way down to the hundreths because of pests like stoats and rats killing them and eating the eggs. Nowadays, they are found in the South Islands and are a protected species because of its low population.

This is all of the information that I could find about the Mohua. I am sure there is more information about them, but unfortunately I am unable to find more.

My learning using CoSpaces

 CoSpaces is an online simulating platform that uses 3d models and coding to make and create certain things and explore to as much as you want. 

In DTE class, we were told to show our learning using CoSpaces and on the management platform, Trello. 

We were given our own canvas to create what we can to show what we learned about binary code and how computers use them in their programming. Originally, I made my work on such; I was gonna have a corridor with walls showing text boxes, and when clicked, they would show what I've made. But, I moved to a different canvas, which wasn't even the right canvas.

On there, I used the moon as the background and the text boxes just floated, but darkened or whitened to be easier to see. Eventually, after inputting all of my info on there, I realized a little too late... that I have no idea how to share it. I couldn't see the share button and I might as well just have shown it personally.

There was also the 'use as assignment' button by the project, but I couldn't find it either. I thought that I'd have to restart, but thankfully, I got to share it because Mr. Carter let me. I was a bit worried that I'd have to completely restart all of that and probably lose the progress I made, but I didn't.

And then, I wrote all of this as I finished my CoSpaces. I think I'm good for now.

Parihaka

 Today, in Social Studies class, we continued on with our Parihaka studies. This time, we talked about the effect of Parihaka. We looked to Mohandas Gandhi and the Salt March, and Martin Luther King Jr. and the march from Selma to Montgomery. We updated our maps and we started doing this blog to show the significance of Parihaka to this song and generation.

We listened to the song made by Tim Finn and the Herbs - Parihaka. And we are asked to answer the questions in this blog.

What is the main message of this song? - To tell the story of Parihaka and how they remained to their choice.

What line explains their passive resistance song? - He watched the dog piss on the cannon's wheel.

What does ‘you can’t pull out the roots’ refer to? - You can't just erase someone's original nationality, or force them off it.

Give evidence of their determination? - The song represents the people of Parihaka to keep their land, but without any violence.

How does this song show the significance of Parihaka? - This song shows their determination and want to make sure their land stays theirs. The song also showed that they did so without any bloodshed.

What makes an event significant? - The reason, the people, the country, the imagery and the outcome.

How many people are affected? - It usually depends on how long the event goes on for, and where it happens and goes to.

How long were people affected? - Depends whether the event lasts or doesn't.

To what extent are people affected? - If the event happened because of something specific and were targeted towards something specific, like a group's race and status.

The people and groups up above were a big factor in how our society is nowadays. Without them, things would have remained the way they were and would have been completely different for us now.