Olympics - Year 5

These resources will help you to find the information you need to help you answer the question “As kids, should we play more Olympic sports instead of games or sports not features in the Olympic Games?”

Databases

In our class workspace in Encyclopaedia Britannica in epic, you will find some relevant articles and pictures.

Websites

Te Ara is the online Encyclopedia of New Zealand. http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealandInBrief/SportsAndLeisure/4/en

In our library

Sporting events : from baseball to skateboarding / by Gabriel Kaufman 796

796 Sports 920 Biographies

796.48 Olympics 613.2 Healthy eating

Please add any good points you have thought of, or any other good resources in your comments.

Possums -Yr 12 Biology

This pathfinder has been put together by Ms Morgan (librarian) and Ms Bio (biology teacher)

To complete your assignment this week, you firstly need to find out how possums damage the New Zealand environment

Databases

• In the Australia/NZ MasterFile in epic, check out the folder entitled possums, there are several articles saved in there that might be useful to you as a starting point. Use your class log-in details.
• You will also find useful material in the ProQuest Science database in epic and in INNZ.

Websites

• Landcare Research is a New Zealand environmental research organization.
  http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/publications/infosheets/possums/
• The Department of Conservation is a government department charged with conserving the natural heritage of New Zealand.
  http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcover.aspx?id=33422
• Te Ara is the online Encyclopedia of New Zealand. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage administers it. http://www.teara.govt.nz/TheBush/Conservation/IntroducedAnimalPests/2/en

In our library

• Possums / Frank Saxton. 599.23
• The brushtail possum : biology, impact and management of an introduced marsupial / edited by T.L. Montague. 599.232

Possible keyword for further searches

• possums, marsupials, “trichosurus vulpecula”, control, pests, New Zealand, “forest ecology”

Please add any other useful links you may have found by clicking on the "comments" box below

New Zealand Wars Resources

The following resources on the New Zealand Wars, are available on desk copy at the library -

• The New Zealand wars [videorecording : DVD] = Nga pakanga nunui o Aotearoa / a Landmark production ; written & presented by James Belich ; director, Tainui Stephens ; producer, Colin McRae. video 993.022
• The newest country in the world : a history of New Zealand in the decade of the Treaty / Paul Moon 993.02 22
• Two peoples, one land : the New Zealand Wars / Matthew Wright 993.022
• The New Zealand wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict / James Belich 993.022
• Click here to view New Zealand Newspaper reports on Ruapekapeka from 1845 to 1850
• Click here to view photograph of Ruapekapeka Pa site - from Te Ara, Encyclopedia of NZ

Author of the week - Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright. He played the piano, trumpet, guitar and saxophone and was the creator, the principal writer and a performing member of The Goon Show.

Click here to view Spike Milligan website

Available from school library -

• 101 best and only limericks of Spike Milligan / illustrations by Desmond Milligan 821.914
  
• Bad Jelly the witch ; and, Dip the puppy : two tales of wonder / Spike Milligan MIL FIC
  
• Goodbye soldier / Spike Milligan. 828/.91403