I hope you enjoyed your Social Studies field trip to the Dunedin Chinese Garden & Otago Settlers Museum and found it informative and interesting.
First task, now that you are back from your cultural visit... is to get out your KWL chart out and look at the left hand and middle columns. What did you already know about the Chinese Garden and what did you what to find out?
Now we want to know What did you learn at the Dunedin Chinese Garden?
Full paragraphs, or bullet pointed details... you need at least 3 or 4 different ideas.
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ReplyDeleteWhat I Know:
They came to New Zealand for the gold.
They were very mistreated while here.
They have a Different Culture.
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What I Found Out:
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Final Note: Blame Carl for me not being there...
The Chinese built bent bridges so devils cant go across them.
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese have male and female rocks.
Chinese people make a mean stirfry.
Chinese people work in harsh conditions.
Chinese came to mine gold, when the gold ran out they worked in laundrys then in Fish n' Chip shops.
Over 380,000 handmade tiles were used to make the roof.
There were no nails or glue used to construct the gardens.
The whole gardens were made in China. The rock and builders even came from China.
Reece Stackhouse
What I learnt at the Chinese gardens:
ReplyDelete• I learnt about how racists our country was when the shines came over.
• How there is not one nail or any glue in the whole building.
• That there are 380,000 roof tiles. They were all hand made
• That the rock had been brought in from china.
• They use no machinery apart from heavy machinery to lift the things that could not be lifted by man power.
By Oliver Sidey-Moore
I learnt.....
ReplyDelete-that the Chinese find a meaning in everything
-that the paths must be wonky so that the devil cant walk down them
-the building doesn't use any nails, it all slots together
-the rocks used in the pile (that represents the mountain of gold in Otago) are a very specific type mined from the bottom of a lake
What I Know:
ReplyDeleteThey came to NZ for the Gold.
They were mistreated in NZ.
We tried to keep them out
What I Found Out:
It was apparently a waste of money
James Felt Ripped off
The place was a waste of time
It was built with 38 Tonnes of Reinforced Steels
380,000 Roof tiles were used to make the roof.
I learnt that authenticity was very important when the Chinese garden was being built. I learnt that they had actual Chinese builders construct the gardens and that they got rocks from the bottom of a lake and they shipped them to Dunedin.
ReplyDeleteI learnt that:
ReplyDelete- They employed a whole lot of chinese workers to build the gardens.
- They spent a whole lot of money on special rocks that were imported from Shanghai.
- The Chinese garden was built mainly from Chinese tools.
chethaka
ReplyDelete-they sent everything from china including the rocks the wood and everything. it was imported around shanghai and was assembled there as well.
-they had to make it by hand and everything was hand carved in china all made using traditional methods.
-there was many accusation on the chinese and many bad rules against them like they werent alllowed they werent allowed to get new zealand residensy and it was very expensive to get into NZ.
I learnt that:
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Traditional Methods used
No Glue or Nails
Wood fits into place
built there, deconstructed and brought here