New Stone Carving Project

Then whole class that is doing stone carving just started a new project called Harakeke. My progress so far is quite good I am up to cutting the sides and making it equal so every side is equal. I think this is gonna be fun and a great challenge for me to complete. It was unfortunate that the top part broke but I somehow fixed it by the help of Mr Mitchell. Here is my progress so far.

Stone Carving

We started a kete called Arts festival. I chose stone carving. I finished my first stone carving project and it was a  and I was proud of my self because I never knew anything about stone carving so it was a challenge for me to do. Here is some photos of the classes stone carvings

Triassic and Jurassic

Triassic Period Dinosaurs:

Jurassic Period:

Kaitiakitanga

What is Kaitiakitanga? Kaitikitanga means Guardians like the maori gods. Like Tane the guardian of the forest.

Introduce Species in NZ

Rabbits

Possums

Rats

Stoats

Ferrets

Weasels

Goat

Tahr

Red Deer

Wallaby

Pigs

Questions

1. Introduced Species mean a specie that came from another country.

2. Why were they brought to NZ? They were brought accidentally by ships that came from another country like rats that came from a boat that came from European country's.

3. The animals that came from another country has mated in the forest and make more of them.
4.They eat the crops that people eat. 

Endangered Species

Endangered Species mean that when they are not a lot of those animal left in the world or in your country.
 Maui Dolphins
Sperm Whales
Mokohinau stag beetle
Kiwi
weka
Fairy Tern 

If we do not help these endangered animals then they wont be around in the future because they would've been extinct by that time.

Maui Dolphins

maui dolphins are almost endangered because when people go fishing they get caught on the fishing nets making them not be able to move in the water.

The government had reduced the size of the the nets so the dolphins could get out.

The maui dolphins numbers aren't going down anymore because of the governments help.

Triassic

• Dinosaurs appear 
• First Mammal's and crocodiles appear
• Modern coral and fish 

Jurassic 206 MYA

• Lots of different dinosaurs 
• ferns and cone bearing plants 
• Mammals common but small
• First birds and lizards 
• Land mass, Pangaea breaks up into Gondwanaland and Laurasia
• High Carbon Dioxide levels

Cretaceous 144 MYA

• Lots of dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus
• New types of insects 
• Flowering plants appear and become plentiful 
• Modern Crocodiles and Sharks  
• Early Birds appear
• Gondwanaland breaks up 
• Rocky mountains appear 
• Carbon dioxide similar today

Paleogene

• Modern plants
• Lots of different mammals
• Dinosaurs Extinct 
• Primitive whales 
• First grasses 
• Rapid changes in Mammals 
• Climate cools
• Ice age begins and ends during this period

Neogene

• Modern Climate
• Modern  mammals and birds 
• Horses evolve from dog like animal
• Lots of grass
• First Apes 
• Southern alps of NZ appear

Quaternary 1.8 MYA- present

• Anatomically modern humans
• Human stone age culture 
• Ice age comes and goes 
• Sahara forms from grassland 
• Humans begin to agriculture 
• stone age- Bronze age 3300BC- Iron Age 1120 BC
• Industrial revolution leads to rise in carbon dioxide levels