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SouthPacific. The voyage out. Sailing ships If you were seeking a better life in New Zealand in the 19th century, you had to take a long and often dangerous voyage by sailing ship.
Not surprisingly, many people preferred to emigrate to the United States or Canada. The journey to New Zealand could take up to 120 days. Often, the travellers never saw land. Wealthier people travelled in cabin class, where there was more space and better food than for those in steerage under the deck. Steamships On steamships, which began bringing people in the 1870s, the journey was faster. Air travel A few migrants began arriving by plane soon after the Second World War. In the 1950s, the flight from Europe usually took several days, with many stopovers. But for most immigrants, New Zealand remains about as far away as they can get from their homelands. Here and there, by Punch Magazine, 1848. Alexander Turnbull Library. PUBL-0043-1848-15. World Flags Coloring Sheets 5. World Countries Flag coloring sheets 5 Free world flags - download and print!
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Use the zoom bar to go from a world view to a local view (or in cartographic terms, from a large scale to a small scale). If you zoom out to a world view, you will see that the map is in a Mercator projection. Use the location menus at the top to zoom from a world view to a continent, country, or other region. Identify your geographic position on the map using the latitude and longitude display at the bottom left.
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I think Wordle.net is a great tool that helps teachers and students to analyze text. Read my post to see some ideas for how you can use Wordle to foster literacy and critical thinking in your classroom. I used Wordle to make the "word cloud" below out of the text from President Obama's speech to Congress. I chose a setting to display the 25 most frequently used words in his speech. Glad to see that education made the top 25 of his verbal agenda! You can make your own Wordle version of his speech. Tags: Obama, Wordle Trackback URL. Elections / Hot topics / Themes / Home - WickEd. At this year's election we are also having a referendum to decide whether to keep voting with MMP, or, if not how they would prefer to vote.
Hover here Use these interactives to explore what a referendum is, what makes a fair election, and other interesting things about elections. Guess the word in 5. 48 Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom.