Room 1 Term 2 Inquiry

Welcome to the Room 1 Ancient Civilisation Inquiry blog. Or big question this term was " How have technologies changed the lives of people over time?"
Our key understandings were - Ancient Civilisations developed tecnologies we still use today and technologies have changed over time and created the world we have today. We had to find technologies created by Ancient civilisations, upload the image and then put it on the timeline. We then had some wonderings about these technologies and researched information about these. As well as present our finding we had to record some information on the blog and link a relevant website.
We completed activities on the Multiple Intelligence sheet. We had to find similarities and differences between a technology in Ancient Civilisations and now. We shared our learning with other classes and learnt alot from the younger children!!
In the last week of term we had to use the BAR key ( bigger, add, replace) to improve a technology. Ruby and Jasmine made a new drinking straw - it worked!!

New Invention From Old

For technology we had to design a new invention from an old one. We used the BAR Thinkers key and had to make it bigger, add some thing and remove some part of it. Ruby and Jasmine designed a new straw.They found out the first straws were used in the 1888. They invented a new straw that is nine straws long. The purpose for it is so that they don't have to walk to get a drink. It is bigger as in large, they added more straws and removed the bendy bits.Guess what it works!!

Click on the title to find out more about the invention of straws.

Archaeologist Professor Charles Higham Talks To Us

Today Professor Charles Higham (Alis Grandad) who is an archaeologist came to talk to us about Ancient China. We learned about one subject in particular Lady Dai. She was a royal person in Ancient China.When she died people who respected her wanted her to go to heaven, not the land of the yellow springs. The land of the yellow springs is hell, and no royal person wanted to go there. Lady Dai (also known as Shin Chwa) was wrapped in 20 layers of silk, placed in 4 coffins and her last meal included melon. She loved to eat rich foods and she was very fat!Her tomb was covered in charcoal and clay to prevent air and water from destroying her worldly possessions. She was buried in 168 BC and her tomb was in perfect condition. Her blood was still red and it looked as though she had died an hour ago. Everyone enjoyed Professor Charles's talk and we all learned something new!! We hope you like the photo of her - some of us did not!
By Ali.