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Our team and research process |
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| We are Year 5 and 6 children (9-11 years old) from Wakari School, Dunedin, New Zealand. We worked in groups for our project and each group had a page that they were researching and publishing. We went on a visit to the Otago Settlers Museum and after that had a big job organising all the information that we had collected. We also looked at articles and cartoons from old copies of the Otago Daily Times as well as watching a video called Illustrious Energy. | |
| Our
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Room 2 at Wakari School. Students: Finn, Alastair, Garreth, Lachlan, Ryan, Michael, Reuben, Scott B, Marcus, Jarrod, Liam, Zacariah, Scott M, Mark, Andrew, Nathan, Alex, Mitchell, Melanie, Nicole, Zoe, Virginia, Natasha Mc, Natasha S, Aleisha, Courtney, Amy, Eden, Nico, Kate and Helen. Teachers: Mr P Storer and Mrs G Donnelly (College Teacher) |
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| The Otago Settlers Museum Visit | |
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At the Otago Settlers Museum, we got information off boards from a display called Windows on a Chinese Past. In the class room, we looked at shoes. Some people didn't know that women bound their feet to fit one kind of shoe called lotus boots. We didn't know that the mining huts were made out of stone. We found out what games the Chinese people play. One group found out how the mothers wash the clothes. The Chinese invented silk and other fabrics. Most of the clothes that the Chinese wore then were made out of the fabrics that they made. |
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The cartoons were published a long time ago when gold was found in the time of the gold rush. In the cartoons the European people discriminated against the Chinese because they looked different to other people. European people did not even understand their language from China or anything about them. |
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- Illustrious Energy
The video we watched was called Illustrious Energy (available from the New Zealand Film Commission). The video was about two Chinese miners in Otago during the goldrush called Chan and Wong. We learnt that the children did not like the Chinese and we learnt that the Chinese were not planning on staying so their houses weren't permanent. We also learned that the Chinese had books at church that were written in Chinese. The Chinese people could not understand English. We learned that the Chinese did not live in very luxurious homes. |
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big thank you
We would like to thank Mrs Kay and Mr Timmins from the Settlers Museum for giving us information about the Chinese and giving us artefacts to look at. We would also like to thank our college teacher, Mrs Donnelly who found the information to tell us and found a video for us to watch. Thank you to all the parents that drove us to the Otago Settlers Museum and helped us find the information we needed. Thank you also to Lucy at Living Heritage who helped Mrs Donnelly make the site. A big thank you to Mr Brunton at the Dunedin City Council website who helped with finding out who we needed to ask to use their pictures. Thanks to Deborah at Asia 2000 for some more great pictures to use and Mary from the Hocken Library as well. Lastly, we would like to thank Mr Watt and Mr Storer for helping us with the computers to create this website.
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