Dec 7-11,2009 History Classes

This week we saw more presentations about the first nation groups.

Something I found interesting:
- the Iroquois group
- it is pretty cool that they discovered agriculture
- it is pretty bad that they fought and played dangerous games instead of hunting

Something hard:
- Did the other first nation groups or the other people from the New World learn to fight because of the Iroquois or from the Europeans?

Something Easy:
- To find out why agriculture is really important, despite the fact that it made people bored and fight, they found easier ways to get food and not having to travel all the time.

Dec. 1-4, 2009

This week we learned about the First Nation People, their culture and about the Places in Canada that have tribes.

It was really cool learning all about the new tribes that were in the presentations. Some I already heard about. We also learned more about their way of living and how hard their life was. I learned that those people who were living there were really strong, because they had to survive all the harsh times to survive.

Something I found easy to understand was that humans follow food around, no matter where the animals went. Well, not everyone did that. Some tribes already had everything they needed, so they didn't really need to move much. They already have fish (a lot of them) and so they can just catch them whenever they want.
But also some people still had to follow their food. For example the people who live in the Plains. All they could eat was buffalo. (Pretty sad to me)

Something I found hard was how the tribes were kind of different but kind of the same. If they were so similar, they can just combine together. Of course every tribe has their own kind of culture.

My question is:
What will happen if one tribe moved to another place that already has a tribe, because no more animals were left there? Do they usually have fights/wars, or are they very peaceful?

P.S. My questions is not really good, because this is my only question. :I

Nov. 27,2009

Last week, we learned a lot more about history.
I am starting to like history, because we get to watch videos when looking at power points. We learned about glaciers, and how humans migrated, and when they did. It was really interesting knowing about these information.
But memorizing is not that easy....if we have to. Since there are a lot of dates that are really important.
We also have to know about the places in Canada, since we are in a Canadian school, AND we are learning a bit about Canada, and how the glaciers were there.
For homework, we have to do a presentation in a group, and I'm kind of nervous of doing that.

Not a lot of things were difficult, and knowing the facts and finding it interesting was easy. :)

Question:
Is it possible for the humans to have traveled in a different path than the one that is shown in the power point?

Nov. 18, 2009 History Class

Today is the 2nd class of History class.

The things I found interesting today is that humans didn't come from the New World, which is in the U.S (around there), and humans came from the places near where I am, like Africa/Asia, (the Old World).
The things I found confusing was that the animals can evolve into something really different over a period of time. To me that was really weird.

Actually my sister was interested in the different kinds of "animals" that were similar to humans.
They were called Homo Erectus and Neanderthals. My sister was watching episodes/movies talking about evolution. (since my sister is interested in History) They looked really realistic!

Questions for this week:
How can animals evolve into humans?