Technology Through The Ages: Ancient Egypt

This term we looked at how technology has evolved through time. My group decided to focus on the impact and inventions that Ancient Egypt has had on today. We had to research five technologies that where invented during that time period. We choose Medical tools, Papyrus, The Civil Calendar and scissor. After that we had to choose three of them and write a essay on them.

My essay.

In Ancient Egypt there were many important inventions that were created. Some of these inventions are papyrus later known as paper, scissors and the calendar. These inventions are still commonly seen and used today.

The Ancient Egyptians also created the first civil calendar. The Civil calendar is a very important invention, because keeping track of time was essential to their civilization since everything relied on the flooding of the Nile. The civil calendar allowed them to keep track of when the Nile would flood and their yearly celebrations. Originally like many other cultures they solely used a lunar calendar to keep track of time, but at some point they changed to the first solar calendar. The solar calendar had twelve months with three ten day weeks with an extra five days of celebration to make up the rest of the year. It was also the one of the first calendar to have four seasons instead of three. The civil calendar is an important invention for the Ancient Egyptians that is still used today.

One important invention in Ancient Egypt was the invention of papyrus later known as paper. Papyrus is the first form of paper in history. The creation of papyrus is important because you could write instead of having to carve into rock all day. Papyrus is made with the papyrus reed that commonly grows in the mashs around the Nile. The longest papyrus scroll is around 40 meters. Papyrus is an important invention because it allows someone to easily record information.

In 1500 BC the first scissors were created. Scissors were used in fashion to cut hair. Scissors were made of one solid piece of bronze. They were two blades connected by a metal strip. The metal strip kept them apart until they were sweased together. In 100 AD the Romans took the basic idea and created the sort of scissors we still use today. These days scissors are used for a lot more than just cutting hair.  

Ancient Egypt is an era where a lot of important inventions were invented. Some of these are papyrus, scissors and calendar. These inventions are still commonly used today.

Syrian Refugees

In Social Studies this term we are looking at refugees. For this assessment we had to chose a country to look at. I chose to look at Syria. Here is the slideshow.

I think I did well keeping track of all the websites I used with my bibliography.

I answered the question 'What Aid or support has been provided for these Refugees?' terribly. I couldn't word it the right way and I left out a lot of information.

I enjoyed learning about something it had no prier knowledge of, even surrounding such a horrible topic. We shouldn't need to be learning about this because this shouldn't be happening.

If I could do this again I would chosen the country to look at quicker so I had more time to actually do the research. Although I spent a little less time to do research than I normal do for something like this.

Child Slavery In The Democratic Republic of the Congo

In Social Studies we are looking at our human rights and what happens when someone takes our rights away. For this assessment we had to chose a topic and a country to focus on. I decided to look at child slavery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here is my slideshow.

Sustainability

Sustainability means providing for the humans of this generation while making sure it's still there for future generations. Some ways we do this is with conservation, maintaining an environment, habit or wildlife to make sure it will be in our future instead of becoming instinct. Carbon footprint is an example of a way we look after our environment, we keep track of the carbon dioxide and methane created by an entity. 

Sustainability is important because if we are not sustainable we could lose an entire species. 

Money

Money is a common everyday thing, but it also plays an important part of our lives. Money is connected to everything in our lives, we work for it, we spend it and we store it.

Māori Trading

In social studies we are looking at Pre-European New Zealand. This week we looked at Pre-European businesses. If you were generous in your trades you where seen as having lots of mana and people where more likely to trade with you. If you where greedy you where seen as having very little mana and people where less likely to trade with you. I made a mindmup to show my learning.

Goverment: Dictators

In Social Studies this term we are looking at different types of government. For this activity we wrote a paragraph about the main characteristics that we think Dictators have.

I think that the characteristics dictators mostly have are controlling, power-hungry, manipulative, ambitious, unemphatic, dishonest and greedy.

Dictators are the sole rulers of a lot of people, that gives them a lot of power, in time that power can go to their head causing them to become corrupt leading them to become controlling, power-hungry, manipulative, ambitious, unemphatic, dishonest and greedy.

In WWII Hitler controlled the people of Germany with lies enabling to have full control of them, turning people against others like Jews.

These are a few characteristics the I think Dictators have.

Family Crest

For Social Studies we got to make our own family crests, this is mine.

A family crest is a symbol/symbols that represent your family, it's important because it shows how you are different from other people and families.
The bottom left is t.v. shows I watched growing up, then on the right is t.v. shows I watched with my Mum.
The map in the middle left is a map represents our love for walks and exploring, then on the right is a stack of books that me and my mum enjoyed reading.
Top left is a Wii and Wii U controllers, as a family we enjoy playing games on the Wii and Wii U, on the right is movies that we enjoy.

Culture and Identity

For the last week we have been looking at culture. Culture to me is who you are, how you act in your day to day life, what you like and who your family is. One of the activities was to create a flyer about a culture tradition someone in the class celebrates, my flyer is about White Sunday from Samoa.