The Great Depression | Social Studies

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for Social Studies, we learned about the Great Depression. Because of the fact that we have started learning about the Holocaust, we started by looking at the Great Depression the cause of it and why it was related to the Holocaust. Our task was to write three paragraphs answering questions on the impact of the Great Depression.

Why was Germany hit the hardest during the depression?

Germany was incapacitated the hardest during the Great Depression of 1929. The Great Depression is a relevant topic that displays the importance of money, banks and the stock pay market. After suffering a grand defeat from the first world war, Germany had to pay off the debt that was assigned t them from the allies due to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany did not have enough money to pay off its debt, making society treat money as if it wasn't worth as much much as a block of butter. banks weren't of much help either; it was very difficult for them as they experienced many downfalls where people would withdraw a hefty amount of money. This just shows how much damage the Great Depression did to Germany. 

Explain what Germany had to agree to by signing the Treaty of Versailles?

Germany was forced to acknowledge various amounts of terms by signing the Treaty of Versailles written by the Allies. The Treaty of Versailles was very damaging towards Germany as some of the terms included them losing a lot of money. The Treaty of Versailles which was an agreement written by the Allies included many clauses that the Germans hated the most because it blames Germany for starting the first world war. Germany also had to agree to pay reparation of £6.6 billion which Germany did not have. This caused the fall of Germany's economy and the beginning of the Great Depression. 

How was NZ affected by the Depression?

The Great Depression, like Germany, also affected many other countries outside of Europe which caused a huge fall in the economy worldwide. The appearance of the Great Depression did a lot of damage to Germany but also to other countries which created a big mark in the history books. During the Great Depression, many citizens lost their jobs in New Zealand due to the large economic fall. In just three years the national income fell by 40 per cent, which was further weakened by the burden of interest on the overseas debt. This caused the fall of New Zealand's economy which had affected the lifestyles of many citizens. 

What did Hitler say about Jews? | Social Studies

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for Social Studies we started learning about the Holocaust. What we did first learn about Hitler's hatred for the Jews by looking at two of his quotes, after that we then had to summarize these quotes. 

Quote 1.

"The Jews were responsible for bring negroes into the Rhineland with the ultimate idea of bastardising (lowering the quality of) the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominte."

In this quote, Hitler was writing about how Jews are lowering the standards of Germany and how Jews are planning to overthrow the people of Germany to gain dominance. 

Quote 2. 

"The Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end... spying on the unsuspicious German girl he plans to seduce... he wants to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew hates the white race and wants to lower its cultural level so that Jews might dominate" 

In this quote, Hitler talked about how a Jew was planning to take advantage and take control of a German girl. Hitler again talking about how Jews hate Germans and how they want to dominate.

Visual and Sound Techniques | English

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for English we started our new focus for the term which is a Film Study. For the first two weeks, we are studying some film techniques. For the first week we studied visual and sound techniques, we then had to show our learning by creating a dictionary, Kahoot, pick-a-path or a crossword. As you can see I did a dictionary. 

Land Yatch | Science

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, for the past few weeks in science we have been working on a new unit called "Forces and Motion". Recently we built a land yacht to test out how fast it could do by using a formula where we calculate the speed. 

Aim: Our goal was to find out how to make our land yacht faster. 

Method+Equipment: 

- Cart

- Sticks (of any size)

- Strings 

- Plastic or anything that can be blown into.

- Leaf Blower 

Using a leaf blower, blow towards your land yacht at a reasonable distance and continue to move forward as the land yacht travels forwards, then stop only when you have reached where your land yacht started. Then measure the distance. (Start the time once the leaf blower is on, then decide on when you want to stop your time.) 

Result:

Our distance was 4.5m and our time was 7.3s. We had to use a formula to calculate the speed of our land yacht 

Calculating Speed:

v= d/t 

v (speed) = d (distance) ÷ t (time)

Conclusion:

Our final speed was 0.61m/s-1. 

Aerodynamics 

Wind tunnels: Wind tunnels are used by scientists to help them see the flow of air the travels over an object. Stream of smoke can be used to make the flow of air visible. 

Down Force: As air coming from the wind tunnels move down the rear wing of a car it produces something called downforce. This helps the car maintain speed when going around at high speeds. 

The Skeletal System | Health

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, for the past few weeks in health we have been working on a research topic called revelation. For this research topic, we had to choose from a range of health-related topics and conduct research about it. 

After choosing a topic to research about we had to choose/create some 5 questions that revolve around that topic, to answer. In those questions, we had to include one about the Values and Attitudes of people towards that particular topic. Finally, we then get to decide on how we present our work, I decided to present my work on a Prezi. 

References:

KidsHealth

Healthline : 1, 2, 

Cleveland Clinic, 

NCBI: 1, 2, 3

ASMBR

HINDAWI

Arthritis Foundation 

Everyday Health 

Mayo Clinic, 2

Bone Health NZ

Ministry of Health 

Cyber Security | DTE

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post for the past few weeks of term we have been working on learning more about computer science and about cybersecurity. For the first week, we learned about computer science and cybersecurity. We learned about computer fundamentals and how they relate to cybersecurity. To present our work we were introduced to CoSpaces where we created an interactive setting presenting our work. 

Personal Rubbish Diary | Social Studies

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for social studies we did an activity about collecting rubbish. Last week we were tasked to track how much rubbish we have thrown for three days, it was categorised as rubbish, recycling and organics. After we have collected our data we had to put that data on a hand-drawn bar graph. 

What can be done to reduce what goes into your rubbish bin?

Use fewer plastics and throw organics in compost. Instead use reusable lids that can be used again, to cover up leftover food. 

Where was the majority of your waste going?

Organics/Recycling or Rubbish?

Most of my waste was rubbish according to the data. 

Did you find that one day had more waste than another day? Why was this? 

I had thrown away more waste on the first day because we didn't have food cooked for us.