NZL-Identity

This term for New Zealand Histories we learnt a lot about identity and who we are. We have also learnt about where we come from and the Census. The Census is a survey that happens every five years in New Zealand. Before we did anything quiz wise, we had to go deeper into what a Census is. We had to figure out what is was specifically, why we needed it and what does it benefit for our future as New Zealand citizens.
The main thing we focused on for the Census was the type of questions they asked and why they asked them. There was all the personal questions like your gender, ethnicity etc. There were also questions about your dwellings or in other words, the house you lived in. A few of the questions they might of asked was
how many residents live in your house at the moment, any mold or asbestos or do you own the house you live in. The reason why they ask so many questions about your dwellings is because They will know what needs to be improved, mostly in households so living would improve by them fixing the problems that have occurred in the household. We got told a few fun facts here an there and we asked a few questions that we got the answer to. One of the main ones that stuck in my brain was the fact that if you weren't in the country at the time of the Census, you didn't need to fill it out. I learnt later that you didn't need to fill it out because your name would've been written down by a friend in the dwellings section.

We got to design our own coat of arms. When our teacher told us about these, it flew over most of our heads until she showed us what one looks like and it clicked in my brain because my home country has a coat of arms. We only had one lesson to do this so we didn't have much time to do it but we had to make it so it represented who we are as a person. Since we didn't have much time, I did it at home.

Near the end of term we did "The Great Greymouth Treasure Hunt". It was basically a quiz that our teacher made up and we had to search the internet for the answers but lucky for me, I had already known some of the answers that she asked in the quiz. I finished first equally with another person but it wasn't about who finished first, it was about who got more correct and we basically had the same answers. The winners at the end got some chocolate eggs as a prize.

The final Project that we did this term was making a poster that was basically saying how great Greymouth is and that it can bounce back and there was a hashtag on one of the articles that we had to read for the treasure hunt and it was #LoveGreymouth. My group had really good designs on our poster and I think we were on track to win. We had one issue with the printer which basically made it so we had to wait before we could glue our information onto our poster so we didn't win. We spent a whole lesson finishing it off and at the end it turned out to look really good.