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Showing posts with label social studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social studies. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 April 2021

Hungarians Migration Group

 

Today my group presented our migration group about Hungarians. My group researched about each slide and presented it to the class to show them what we had learnt. 

Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Understand Migration Theories


migration - move from one place to another

theory - a formal idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain something

For social studies, we are researching about where Polynesians migrated from. We looked into documentary's, websites and history. Here is what we found out. 

1. Hawaiiki

Some Maori believe that they came from a place called Hawaiiki, which was their ancient Polynesian homeland. This theory suggests that people left their island of Hawaiiki because of rivalry between the two tribes. Whetenia and Rauru. 

2. South America

A theorist named Thor Heyerdrahl believes Maori originally came from South America. He noticed the wind and ocean currents from the East may have pushed travellers to the Pacific. To test his theory, he sailed on raft called "Kon-Tiki" from South America to the Tuamotu Island. 

3. Asia

Some theorists believe that Maori came from Asia. A lot of the language is similar throughout the Pacific. Most common foods like taro, yams and bananas come from Asia. 

The theory that I believe is right could be Polynesian people may have migrated from South America to Asia, then our islands coming to New Zealand. I think this because there's a lot of clues and Polynesian theories in each of these mentioned countries. 

Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Made In Taiwan Documentary


For Social Studies we watched a documentary called "Made In Taiwan". This documentary was all about how two guys who go on a journey to search and understand about their ancestral history. As my class watched the documentary, we would write a summary about what they did, saw, felt etc. They travelled to Rarotonga, Mahia in Aotearoa, Vanuatu and Taiwan.