Term 3 - Topic

This term we are trying to find out if one person can change the world.

Each class is learning about things and people who have made a difference by inventing something (like the wheel) or by helping people (like firemen) or by being really bad (like Hitler)

Stay tuned to see if we think it is possible or not.

Room 2

Houses now have lights that use electicity - Joshua

Houses look different - Damon

We now have clothes that are coloured - Marshall

They used slates and we use books - Joshua

The oven doesn't use fire anymore - Tony

We have washing machines not a scrubbing board - Yangaliliki

Roads have changed - Damon

We now used electricity - Tarsha

We have a playground at school - Hauhautapu

We have cars - Apeta

We use cars not trams - Diego

They had a water pump outside and we have taps inside - Damon

Our irons use electrivity - Ilaha

We don't use a washboard - Yanga

We have a dishwasher - Shishanth

Room 4 - How has the world changed - Transport

Bikes
The first bike was made out of wood but today they are made of metal.
They sat on the bike and pushed along with the feet while todays bikes have pedals.

Housework
It took all day to do the washing. First Great Grandma had to light a fire under the copper to get hot water. Then she had to push the clothes up and down with a long stick to get them clean. Next she put them through a mangle to get soapy water out before rinsing them in cold water. Then she had to put them through the mangle again before whe could hang the washing out.
Today we have a washing machine and push the start button.

Room 9 & 12 have been learningabout bridges throughout time

Early bridges were beam and arch bridges and modern ones are suspension and cable stayed. Materials used for early bridges were stone and wood and now they are concrete and steel.

The uses and loads of bridges have changed as well.

Some of our thoughts can be viewed at the link below.

https://rumaiwabish.wikispaces.com/

Room 3 looked at the changing seasons and how this made life in the olden days hard.

At school we noticed and thought about:

It's getting colder because it is heading into winter.

Butterflies die in the winter.

It is frosty in the winter.

At Ferrymead we learnt:

100 years ago baths were different from us now.

Toilets had a hole and no flush.

Clothes went througha mangle to get the water out. Then they were pegged out to dry.

Tables were scrubbed down.

Irons wer heated on the stove because there was no electricity.

Room 11 found out about the changes to food packaging

We think there is too much plastic in modern packaging. We think that too much plastic ends up in landfill and that it is a waste of oil (plastic is made from oil just like petrol).

If we made less plastic then the petrol might last longer.

We like the way that glass is still being used even if the jar lids have changed from cotton to screwtops.

Stay tuned to here some of our ideas to improve the world!

Comments from Anton, Jamie, Ako and Shanya

How has the world changed?

This term each class has been trying to answer the question

"How has the world changed?".

Classes have used

different topics

and themes to help them explore the question further.

Stay tuned to find out what we discovered.