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Thursday, August 4, 2011

"Where in the World?"

Uganda, Chinese Taipei and more others. We had to research on more of these countries on CIA fact book and answered some questions like what continent the country is and more other things

1. Uganda.

2. The continent of Uganda is Africa.

3. The capital city of Uganda is Kampala.
4. The population for Uganda is 32,709,865.
5. The national sports for Uganda are football and rugby union.

Chinese Taipei
1.

Chinese Taipei is located east and south east of Asia
2. The continent of Chinese Taipei is Asia.
This week we have been learning about countries that didn’t qualified for the rugby world cup like Uganda, Chinese Taipei and more others. We had to research on more of these countries on CIA fact book and answered some questions like what continent the country is and more other things.

3. The capital city of Chinese Taipei is Taipei
4. The population of Chinese Taipei is 23,071,779
5. The national sports for Chinese Taipei are baseball and football

Keep Your Eye On The Ball


We are using the nations of the 2011 Rugby World Cup as our inquiry path. For this unit we are in one of four teams: Brumbies, Force, Rebels, Stormers.
My team is Force
There will be a number of tasks for us to navigate to achieve our goal of an excellent result in this unit. There are a mixture of individual and team tasks to be completed.
The main task that will show our learning in this unit will be a Hyperstudio presentation about one of the countries in the World Cup competition.

Where The Heck Is Mission Bay

Different Auckland town centres have adopted Rugby teams from countries that qualified for the World Cup.
I found out information about; the location in Auckland, something special about this place, a 'potted' history of the place, if it has it's own symbol of some sort.
(If we couldn't find a symbol we chose a picture that told more about the place).





  1. Hossanah
  2. Force
  3. Your prediction of what nation will win the 2011 World Cup. All blacks



Task One – “Where The Heck Is Mission Bay.

Mission Bay is a suburb of Auckland city, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located seven kilometres to the east of the city centre.


2. Mission Bay takes its name from the Melanesian Mission, which was based in the bay.

3. Mission Bay has a number of attraction of historic of interest.The Melanesian Mission House was built from volcanic stone bought from Rangitoto. It was opened in 1859 to coincide with the arrival of 38 Melanesians on board the Mission vessel, Southern Cross. By 1915 only the stone dining hall block remained, the rest of the buildings having been removed or used in the repair or erection of farm houses and outbuildings on the Melanesian Estate.









http://www.missionbay.co.nz/?s1=LocalAttraction ( august 2 2011

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  1. Hossanah
  2. Force
  3. Your prediction of what nation will win the 2011 World Cup. All blacks



“Where The Heck Is Mission Bay".

Mission Bay is a suburb of Auckland city, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located seven kilometres to the east of the city centre.




2. Mission Bay takes its name from the Melanesian Mission, which was based in the bay.

3. Mission Bay has a number of attraction of historic of interest.The Melanesian Mission House was built from volcanic stone bought from Rangitoto. It was opened in 1859 to coincide with the arrival of 38 Melanesians on board the Mission vessel, Southern Cross. By 1915 only the stone dining hall block remained, the rest of the buildings having been removed or used in the repair or erection of farm houses and outbuildings on the Melanesian Estate.









http://www.missionbay.co.nz/?s1=LocalAttraction ( august 2 2011