Welcome to Room One's Blog Page
Hello to students, teachers, parents and family members that are viewing Room 1's Blog Page. We are a busy Year 7 class at Balmacewen Intermediate School in Dunedin. Come to our page to check out where we have been, what we've been up to and some examples of our work. Students of Room 1 will be writing blogs and posting their work on here regularly.
Hello to students, teachers, parents and family members that are viewing Room 1's Blog Page. We are a busy Year 7 class at Balmacewen Intermediate School in Dunedin. Come to our page to check out where we have been, what we've been up to and some examples of our work. Students of Room 1 will be writing blogs and posting their work on here regularly.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Week 5:
Amazing Race: China
Week 6: Tuesday 16th November:
Otago Athletics.
Week 8: Friday 3rd December
We present our class story/presentation.
Week 9: Friday 10th December
Yr 8 lipsynch presentations
End of Term:
Thursday 16th December, 12pm.
Mrs Q
room one's teacher
the body useful sites
- http://www.kids-courier.com/kids_learning/.../science_human.html
- http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/humanbody.html
- http://www.kidsbiology.com/human_biology/index.php
- http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject.../31.../337-human-body.html
- http://www.ehow.com › Health › Family Health › Childrens Health
- http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/humanbody.html
SCIENCE FAIR SITES
ANZAC PAGES
TEXTAREA_ID
14 comments:
i couldnt open the gold page or become a follower so i dont know the information i should compare to.
from bebe.
1852: nz mint
1861: goldmining nz, teara.govt.nz, te papa
1862: cadrona eprints. otago
Gabriel Read may have won the reward for being the 1st to discover gold, but he wasn't.
www.odt.co.nz
Many people thought Gabriel Read was the person who started the gold rush. What much less people did know is that an Indian prospector,Edward peters,beat Gabriel Read by three years to locate Otagos first gold field.
www.teara.govt.nz
Edward Peters found gold in the streams around Lawrence in central otago, three years before the famous worker Gabriel Reid showed up.
www.nzetc.org
Mr Edward Peters should have won the reward for being the first to discover gold in Tuapeka.As he was taking a pan of water from the stream to Quench his thirst,the thought struck him to try for gold by scooping up the pebbles with the pan, and he was rewarded with a rough speck of gold.
Hannah
Hannah, some good research here well done. What did everyone else find? Henri, they look like your references, but what did you find out?
In May 1861 Gabriel Read discovered gold neaby a gully nowdays known as Gabriel's gully.
Later, Gabriel Read was rewarded with 500 pounds.
Result found at:
http://www.totaltravel.co.nz/travel/south-island/southland-otago/southland/atrractions/heritage/lawrence
Gabriel Read discovered gold in May 1861 and early next year there was around 14,000 miners in the valley.
Result found at:
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/history-of-immigration/7/1/1
And the last reference was the Awesome Aoteroa book by Margret Mahy
By Jaren
In May 1861 Gabriel Read discovered gold in a gully now known as Gabriel's Gully. He was later rewarded with 500 pounds.
Result found at:
http://www.totaltravel.co.nz/travel/South-Island/southland-otago/southland/atrrations/heritage/lawrence
Gabriel Read dicovered gold in 1861
and early next year there was around 14,000 miners in the area.
Result found at:
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/history-of-immigration/7/1/1
And my last referance is
Awesome Aoteroa
By Margret Mahy
Jaren Roy
that information is incorrect Edward Peters first discovered gold
www.nzect.org :
Mr Edward Peters whilst crossing the Tuapeka stream he stopped for a of the creeks waters and discovered there was a speck of gold in his pan.
www.teara.govt.nz:
Edward Peters found gold in the Tuapeka stream in 1879 and used it to pay for his provisions. It was his success that bought Gabriel Read to the area.
www.odt.co.nz:
For many gabriel read is the key figure of the Otago gold rush. But this is not the truth Mr Edward Peters was the first to locate Otago's first viable gold field.
From Bebe
1. In 1862 Gabriel Read discovered Gold in central Otago (NZ Mint)
2. Gabriel's Gully (Wikipedia)
Gabriel Read, an Australian prospector who had hunted gold in both California and Victoria, Australia, discovered gold in a creek bed at Gabriel's Gully, close to the banks of the Tuapeka River near Lawrence on May 20, 1861. "At a place where a kind of road crossed on a shallow bar I shovelled away about two and a half feet of gravel, arrived at a beautiful soft slate and saw the gold shining like the stars in Orion on a dark frosty night".[2]
The public heard about Read's discovery via a letter published in the Otago Witness on June 8, 1861, documenting a ten day long prospecting tour he had made. There was little reaction at first until John Hardy of the Provincial Council stated that himself and Read had prospected country "about 31 miles long by five broad, and in every hole they had sunk they had found the precious metal."[3] With this statement, the gold rush began.
3. As you found Mrs Q I found reference to the reward offered...see below
This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand,
READ, Gabriel
(1824–94).
Prospector and miner.
Major Richardson, who on behalf of the Council offered a reward for any discovery that might be made. Thus it was that Read turned his attention to Tuapeka, Waitahuna, and Wetherstones.
Having heard of a find by one, Black Peter, at a locality known as Woolshed Creek, Read set off for that area, and despite a good deal of good-natured derision from the local inhabitants, he disappeared into the hills and gullies, and on 23 May 1861 struck colour in a gully that has borne his name for a hundred years.
Hayden Johnston
www.wikipedia.org
Gabriel Read, an Australian prospector who had hunted gold in both California and Victoria, Australia, discovered gold in a creek bed at Gabriel's Gully, close to the banks of the Tuapeka River near Lawrence on May 20, 1861.
www.goldfieldstrust.org.nz
Over 140 years ago the young province of Otago was excited with the news of the discovery of gold. The first find was in the Lindis River early in 1861, before the much better known discovery in Gabriel’s Gully at Lawrence in May 1861.
www.essortment.com/
Gold was found as early as the 1830s in New Zealand. Convicts and whalers living on Beeson's Island near Coromandel Harbour reported finding gold but no one seemed to notice or acknowledge their claim. In 1852, Charles Ring made a discovery of gold at Kapanga Creek in Coromandel.
Ar-thit
www.wikipedia.org
Gabriel Read, an Australian prospector who had hunted gold in both California and Victoria, Australia, discovered gold in a creek bed at Gabriel's Gully, close to the banks of the Tuapeka River near Lawrence on May 20, 1861.
www.goldfieldstrust.org.nz
Over 140 years ago the young province of Otago was excited with the news of the discovery of gold. The first find was in the Lindis River early in 1861, before the much better known discovery in Gabriel’s Gully at Lawrence in May 1861.
www.essortment.com/
Gold was found as early as the 1830s in New Zealand. Convicts and whalers living on Beeson's Island near Coromandel Harbour reported finding gold but no one seemed to notice or acknowledge their claim. In 1852, Charles Ring made a discovery of gold at Kapanga Creek in Coromandel.
Ar-thit
on the 23 may 1861 Gabrial Read found GOLD, [thats why Gabrials Gully got its name] but another man, called Edward Peters, found gold earlier in the same area, but he had not been able to prove it. Edward Peters was eventually awarded a smaller amount of money.
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from Amy.C
Gabriel Reads was not the first person to start the gold rush
I went on three websites to check this information. The first one was
www.teara.govt.nz - I found out that this web site said Gabriel Read discovered the gold on 23rd May 1861. They named it Gabriel's Gully. It said by December there were 14 000
on the goldfield.
The next website was www.cluthacountry.co.nz. This website said that Gabriel Read found gold on the 25th May which was different to the first one. It said by July 11000 people were on the gold field which was the same as in the Information you put up.
The next website was called www.absoluteastronomy.com and they said he was an Australian who discovered gold on May 20th which was different to both of them. This shows that all three had some information the same and some different like the dates and number of people at different times.
See my homework book for more information.
James Mitchell
Encyclopedia of New Zealand.com
Having heard of a find by one, Black Peter, at a locality known as Woolshed Creek, Read set off for that area, and despite a good deal of good-natured derision from the local inhabitants, he disappeared into the hills and gullies, and on 23 May 1861 struck colour in a gully that has borne his name for a hundred years.
Te Papa.com
On 23 May 1861, Read made the discovery that was to change Otago life dramatically. In his own words, 'At a place where a kind of road crossed on a shallow bar I shoveled away about 2" feet of gravel, arrived at a beautiful soft slate and saw the gold shining like the stars in Orion on a dark frosty night
To this day, the gully where he found those nuggets is called Gabriel's Gully
Absolute Astronomy.com
Gabriel Read was an Australian gold prospector who, after working on the goldfields of California and Victoria, Australia traveled to New Zealand, having heard rumors of gold being found in Matarua, Southland. On may 20 1861, he discovered gold close to banks of the Tuapeka River in Otago, at Gabriel’s gully.
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