Was sent a link to a video
Mrs Mathieson
Friday 9 November 2012
Wednesday 24/10
So… I’ve been trying to come up with alternative ideas for the video to present to the students on Friday.
Was sent a link to a video
Think I’m going to propose to the students that we do a collection of photos to the lyrics that they wrote last term, instead of trying to film a music clip as we don’t have access to some of the areas that we need
Mrs Mathieson
Was sent a link to a video
Mrs Mathieson
Today’s double
Today we did lots of things
The girls went with Ms Thompson and started the painting of the cow. With the paint on it looks very different, looks good.
The boys stayed with Mrs Mathieson to work on the music video. LOL they are having to sing
The girls are going to sing the chorus.
We have a practice run during our next lesson on Friday
Next Tuesday we will be making the music video, down at the Ag plot
they doing a voice over on Wednesday – so we’ll see how it goes.
Grace
The girls went with Ms Thompson and started the painting of the cow. With the paint on it looks very different, looks good.
The boys stayed with Mrs Mathieson to work on the music video. LOL they are having to sing
The girls are going to sing the chorus.
We have a practice run during our next lesson on Friday
Next Tuesday we will be making the music video, down at the Ag plot
they doing a voice over on Wednesday – so we’ll see how it goes.
Grace
Thursday 8 November 2012
the last minutes …..
finally putting the finishing touches to the Cow
love the flies 
Thanks Jarod
Cotton & I grow it video
Thankyou everyone for participating
Kate Mathieson
14/09/12 Cow designs
Some designs for the cows.
These ideas have been put forward by Lianna G from yr12 Art who found a template on a desk in out classroom during Bio, she did some as a joke, but then she can up with some other ideas as well once I told her about the project.
She was thinking the clothes could be good - made from cotton, maybe cut open the cow and see if we could grow cotton or something inside it?
Cara G. - We should really grow cotton inside of the cow, that'd be epic! Kate M- In that case we need to figure out how :)
Stuart Mc – You could cut it open and put lights in it and make it a greenhouse ?
Jackie B - roller skates would be cool lol
Lianna G to make the cotton stand you could use tutu material?
Beau B. Instead of tutu material cause it’s not cotton, could we use wire?
Cara G. - We should really grow cotton inside of the cow, that'd be epic! Kate M- In that case we need to figure out how :)
Stuart Mc – You could cut it open and put lights in it and make it a greenhouse ?
Jackie B - roller skates would be cool lol
Lianna G to make the cotton stand you could use tutu material?
Beau B. Instead of tutu material cause it’s not cotton, could we use wire?
13/08/12 Miscommunication hahahahaha
The funniest thing that happened in beginning of the process is that I forgot to mention that the cow was fibreglass. My staff members could understand why I was so calm about a ‘bull’ arriving and why i was going to paint it, as that’s against the animal welfare policy. My HT Ag wasn’t happy that i had a bull coming as we had nowhere to put it. After I explained that it was a fibreglass version, everyone laughed and told me I should’ve lead off with that. Then I had to go away, while away the cow was delivered, and the Science staff, were getting calls from the deputies and office staff, to find out where I wanted my ‘cow’ delivered and that putting in the shed was not acceptable and again against the animal welfare policy :) Now they understood why it was so easy to be misunderstood.
Kate M
Kate M
07/08/2012 ART4AG
Today I found out that GHS would be participating in the ART4AG competition. This was exciting and scary as, as a teacher I’ve never done anything like this. I was extremely thankful to the two companies Carroll Cotton Gin and the Naomi Cotton growers assoc. for sponsoring us :) The funniest thing that happened in beginning of the process is that I forgot to mention that the cow was fibreglass. My staff members could understand why I was so calm about a ‘bull’ arriving and why i was going to paint it, as that’s against the animal welfare policy. My HT Ag wasn’t happy that i had a bull coming as we had nowhere to put it. After I explained that it was a fibreglass version, everyone laughed and told me I should’ve lead off with that. Then I had to go away, while away the cow was delivered, and the Science staff, were getting calls from the deputies and office staff, to find out where I wanted my ‘cow’ delivered and that putting in the shed was not acceptable and again against the animal welfare policy :) Now they understood why it was so easy to be misunderstood. Kate Mathieson – Teacher
ART 4 Ag competition 07/08/2012
Today I found out that GHS would be participating in the ART4AG competition.
This was exciting and scary as, as a teacher I’ve never done anything like this. I was extremely thankful to the two companies Carroll cotton gin and the Naomi Cotton growers assoc. for sponsoring us :)
Kate Mathieson – Teacher
This was exciting and scary as, as a teacher I’ve never done anything like this. I was extremely thankful to the two companies Carroll cotton gin and the Naomi Cotton growers assoc. for sponsoring us :)
Kate Mathieson – Teacher
10/08/12 task 1 the Archibull
One of the tasks put forward today by Mrs Mathieson, once we found out about the “Archibull prize” was to decide on a name for our cow. Some of the names put forward included Babe, Steak, George, Petal, Udder Finally Mrs Mathieson put forward – “how about something aboriginal, to represent GHS?” so with unanimous vote we called the cow “Milambaraay” meaning cow in Aboriginal. So this is why our blog is called Gunny meets Milambaraay Courtney B
08/08/12 Starting the Archibull
Archibull competition will be looking at how innovation, efficiency gains & intensification are helping them maintain their quality of life.
To have a better look at what this task is about check this link out ART4AG details
We have to complete a variety of task including
1. this blog – at least once a week
2. video or a PowerPoint presentation here is a link to Colo HS – cotton
3. the cow itself
Have a look at the resources and we call talk about it in class.
To have a better look at what this task is about check this link out ART4AG details
We have to complete a variety of task including
1. this blog – at least once a week
2. video or a PowerPoint presentation here is a link to Colo HS – cotton
3. the cow itself
Have a look at the resources and we call talk about it in class.
15/08/12 Meeting Milambaraay
Designing the cow
We’ve had lots of discussions about how to design the cow.
Today we used templates to design parts of the cow and Ms Thompson is helping us by guiding us with ideas. So far we have decided to cut out the middle session and make it a looking glass type thing – where we’ll be growing cotton
The legs are going to be of an aboriginal design and the body is to represent the farm to clothing process and how that helps this industry be sustainable within out community. It will also have a tutu made from different cotton materials.
Not everyone is getting involved in the designing, those that aren’t are helping to design the video and polish the lyrics for the song so excited …
Courtney B
Today we used templates to design parts of the cow and Ms Thompson is helping us by guiding us with ideas. So far we have decided to cut out the middle session and make it a looking glass type thing – where we’ll be growing cotton
The legs are going to be of an aboriginal design and the body is to represent the farm to clothing process and how that helps this industry be sustainable within out community. It will also have a tutu made from different cotton materials.
Not everyone is getting involved in the designing, those that aren’t are helping to design the video and polish the lyrics for the song
so excited …Courtney B
Monday 10 September 2012–Food Consumption and Hunger
Today we where asked to investigate the hunger situation around the world, and identify factors that have contributed to world hunger, and if there is anything that we can do about it!
We where given two article and had to read one of them and answer some questions based on what we thought
A wicked problem http://chdairiesdiary.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/
A culture of waste http://chdairiesdiary.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/
We also played a simulation called 3rd World Farmer http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/
What factors have contributed to hunger world wide
- War
- Not enough adults to work, as they have been killed, maimed or conscripted.- Environmental factors
- Competing sides burning or destroying farm resources, so the other-side can’t get it.
- Drought- Availability of water
- Flood
- Fire
- Weather conditions - El Niño and LA Niña
-Pests
- Without access to water there is no crops, therefore no food or seed for the following season.- Availability of resources
- Such as seed
- Land
- Fertilisers
- Labour
- Equipment
- Money
What is the hunger situation at home and abroad?
Australia
I was surprised to read that Australia produces enough food for 60 million people, and even though we only have a population of 18million, there are Australian who are still hungry? Also that we waste 4 million tonnes of food because we cook too much, it goes off in the fridge, it doesn’t look like it should (not up to the standard of Woolworths or Coles [the produce is too big/ small or not the correct colour]) or we just don’t eat it and put it in the bin.
World Wide
In the World, 100’s of 1000’s of people are starving or dying of starvation a day. We recently watched the video about the Indian government providing hot meals to students and how American’s eat up to 3 hambugers a week.
Like Australia most developed countries have the same wasteful culture. This is due mostly to the fact that food is so cheap, and is the cheapest it has ever been. This cheap extremely proceeded food is causing overindulgence and high numbers morbidly obese adults and children. While in other counties children are suffering from many different disease caused by nutrient deficiencies. The problem is the price of food doesn’t reflect the true cost of the food. If this doesn’t change then in a few decades there may not be any farmers to produce the food!
Unfortunately the above factors listed in the section What factors have contributed to hunger world wide affect the people in developing counties greater than in developed countries. Developing countries have the most need as their populations are higher.
So what can we do as people to help from Australia.
1. be more aware of what and how we eat.
2. try and follow the food heichary
3. help those that need it. The link below is an Australian organisation that is involved with help Australian's in need http://www.foodbank.org.au/
4. We started a FREERICE group, as we study and answer questions correctly 10 grains of rice are donated to developing countries. Freerice is a non-profit website that is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme. Go to http://freerice.com/ and start today, see if you can beat us
Sophie & Cara
05/11/12 Nearly there
We’ve nearly completed the cow 
The paper mashae was part of the hardest bit, as the sides wouldn’t stay up! But we got there in the end.
A teacher asked us how does this represent ‘clothing and feeding out community in a day’, We responded “how many different animals and crops can you see?”
Teacher “Ummm… one the bull?”
Us LOL “We have dairy, beef & crops!” “It represents our community through the Aboriginal designs, the red and black soils, the mountain range (Warrabungles). The feed and clothe – dairy for the black spots/ clouds, beef for the abstract bulls, crops for the yellow crops of wheat/ canola, we are putting on cotton wool to represent as sheep, and different cotton to represent all the stages it has from harvesting to colouring”
Teacher “ that’s great, you guys have done well”
Below is the transformation it has taken over the past week
Courtney
The paper mashae was part of the hardest bit, as the sides wouldn’t stay up! But we got there in the end.
A teacher asked us how does this represent ‘clothing and feeding out community in a day’, We responded “how many different animals and crops can you see?”
Teacher “Ummm… one the bull?”
Us LOL “We have dairy, beef & crops!” “It represents our community through the Aboriginal designs, the red and black soils, the mountain range (Warrabungles). The feed and clothe – dairy for the black spots/ clouds, beef for the abstract bulls, crops for the yellow crops of wheat/ canola, we are putting on cotton wool to represent as sheep, and different cotton to represent all the stages it has from harvesting to colouring”
Teacher “ that’s great, you guys have done well”
Below is the transformation it has taken over the past week
Courtney
14SEPT12–What does it take to sustainably feed and clothe my community for a day?
Gunnedah Statistics Source: ABS,
Population 12,353 ERP (Estimated Residential Population in 2011, )
NSW
Population in NSW is according to Census is 7,302,174 ERP.
The greater Sydney
Population approx 4,600,000
therefore Gunnedah is
0.169% of the entire NSW population and
0.2685% of Sydney's population
very small in the whole scheme of things.
How much does it cost to feed and clothe our community?
| Sydney per day | Gunnedah per day | |||||
| Commodity Group | Kg Consumed each day | produce/ animals required | Kg Consumed each day | produce/ animals required | ||
| pork | 303,726.00 | 10,847.00 | pigs | 816 | 29 | pigs |
| horticulture | 2,090,795.00 | 8,664,032.00 | fruit & veg | 5,614 | 23,263 | fruit & veg |
| poultry | 1,295,562.00 | 1,423,832.00 | hens | 3,479 | 3,823 | hens |
| meat & livestock | 577,205.00 | 9,014.00 | beasts | 1,550 | 24 | beasts |
| Dairy | 1,817,315.00 | 390,146.00 | cows | 4,879 | 1,048 | cows |
| grains | 693,151.00 | 31,543.00 | loaves | 1,861 | 85 | loaves |
| bees | 12,603.00 | 882,191,781.00 | bees | 34 | 2,368,685 | bees |
| rice | 163,836.00 | 8,191,780,822.00 | grains | 440 | 21,994,932 | grains |
| cotton | 420,858.00 | 30,000.00 | hectares of land | 1,130 | 81 | hectares of land |
| aquaculture | 17.00 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Gunnedah per day | NSW per day | |||||
| Commodity Group | Kg Consumed each day | produce/ animals required | Kg Consumed each day | produce/ animals required | ||
| pork | 816 | 29 | pigs | 455,589 | 16,271 | pigs |
| horticulture | 5,614 | 23,263 | fruit & veg | 3,136,193 | 12,996,048 | fruit & veg |
| poultry | 3,479 | 3,823 | hens | 1,943,343 | 2,135,748 | hens |
| meat & livestock | 1,550 | 24 | beasts | 865,808 | 13,521 | beasts |
| Dairy | 4,879 | 1,048 | cows | 2,725,973 | 585,219 | cows |
| grains | 1,861 | 85 | loaves | 1,039,727 | 47,315 | loaves |
| bees | 34 | 2,368,685 | bees | 18,905 | 1,323,287,672 | bees |
| rice | 440 | 21,994,932 | grains | 245,754 | 12,287,671,233 | grains |
| cotton | 1,130 | 81 | hectares of land | 631,287 | 45,000 | hectares of land |
| aquaculture | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | ||
on the whole without the Agricultural sector we would starve and not have any clothes.
To clothe and feed all the people in NSW with cotton based products, we need 45,000 ha of Cotton to be grown a day. Currently there is 157,000 ha of cotton grown in Australia in 2006/07 growing season (Cotton Australia, 2012), which equals a shortfall of 16Million hectares a year.
As a class we believe cotton is extremely important as it is products are extremely versatile, from clothing to food stuffs
Most of what our town needs to survive each day, we can grow or produce here. There are some things such as Dairy and Pork products that we can produce just not very well due to temperature extremes.
Courtney & Cara
References
ABS, 2011, 3218.0 - Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2010-11 Retrieved 2012, Online: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/3218.02010-11
Cotton Australia, 2012, Fact Sheets Retrieved: 2012, online: http://cottonaustralia.com.au/cotton-library/fact-sheets/
19/09/12 Field to Fabric Narribbri
On Wednesday the 19th of September our Year 9 Agricultural class travelled to the Australian Cotton Research Institute at Narribbri. We were participating in the "field to fabric' schools course. We listened to different people talk about everything to do with cotton and even showed us some machinery. We had a great time and we learnt so much from everyone we met there. Special thanks to Trudy, we wouldn't of done it without you and for Mrs Mathieson for supervising and driving the bus. Thanks
Cara G
Cara G
21/09/12 Video Discussion
Today we decided how to proceed with our video.
And as a class we though “we can do that”
We watch a parody buy the FarmBros –“Farming and I know it”
After watching the FarmBros and the little kid, the class decided to do a parody.
So we downloaded the instrumental to “Sexy and I know it” by LMFO and the Lyric from the FramBros youtube site and started adapting their song to fit our topic COTTON
This is what we came up with, still needs a bit a of work, but major hurdle now it decide who sings/ performs/ videos and where do we get cotton from????? The Carroll Cotton gin might be able to help with part of the video, regarding the bales and the actually gin.
Kate M
Lyrics:
When I'm up at seven, the sunrise gives me a glimpse of heaven
I get right to work, a farmer's life can be a little berserk yeah
This is how I roll, harvesting cotton is my heart & soul?
In November the seeds we sow
To keep the picker going we need the dough
Gotta Feed Everybody
Gotta Clothe Everybody
Gonna Help Everybody
(Uh-Huh) I work out (side!)
Gotta Feed Everybody
Gotta Clothe Everybody
Gonna Help Everybody
(Uh-Huh) I work out (side!)
When I step in the gin (yeah)
This is what I see (Uh-huh)
All the cotton bales staring at me
I got passion for my cotton and I ain't afraid to show it show it show it show it
Cotton and I grow it
When I'm in my tractor, I got more power than an arc reactor
And when I'm in the field, I try to raise crops to maximum yield
This is how I roll, without me the world would be outta control
The hours I work, there is no equal
Gotta feed the mouths of hungry people
Gotta Feed Everybody
Gotta Clothe Everybody
Gonna Help Everybody
(Uh-Huh) I work out (side!)
Gotta Feed Everybody
Gotta Clothe Everybody
Gonna Help Everybody
(Uh-Huh) I work out (side!)
When I step to the lab (yeah)
This is what I see (Uh-huh)
All the big machinery staring at me
I got passion for my cotton and I ain't afraid to show it show it show it show it
Cotton and I grow it
Water, water, water, water, water (yeah)
Water, water, water, water, water (yeah)
Water, water, water, water, water(yeah)
Water, water, water, water, water(yeah, yeah)
Cotton needs water man
Its water efficient man
From the Namoi river man
Yeah
Cotton and I grow it
Gotta Feed Everybody
Gotta Clothe Everybody
Gotta Help Everybody
(Uh-Huh) I work out (side!)
Gotta Feed Everybody
Gotta Clothe Everybody
Gotta Help Everybody
(Uh-Huh) I work out (side!)
Cotton and you use it
03/10/12 How does Cotton grow in Australia?
Mrs Mathieson found a video called ‘How does cotton grow in Australia?”
It was interesting to watch and helped me understand better what cotton is all about. Especially before our test
Aleasha
07 September 2012 A Hungry World
A hungry world is what will happen if the world keeps on it’s current path of expansion. What can we do to change it? It is up to us the younger generation to influence the way the older generation think to secure our future. As a younger person from Australia I find it difficult to comprehend (but know it is true) that there are people in the world who do not have enough food. We waste food because of trivial reasons when our neighbours are dieing from starvation. In order to help countries with lower quality of life and to help conserve resources, we need to be more efficient, compassionate towards others and educated.
Currently the only way that the world is able to produce enough food is to make it fertilised, Mrs Mathieson has told us about a lecture attended and how the lecturer had every 3rd person stand up, he then told them without man-made Nitrogen all the people who where standing would not survive. Unfortunately it would not be in the developed countries such as our own, that most people would die but in the developing nations.
Slowly as people begin to recognise the need for better management practices and the fact that as a world we need to be more practical, places such as shown in the video below – Youth Education Farms, will be a much-needed occurrence.
What is hunger? Hunger is defined by the dictionary as “A feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat.” I think it depends on what you are used to, for me hunger is when I’ve skipped a meals throughout the day – and I am soooo hungry after school, but for others even in Australia they may not recognise skipping a snack as hunger when they may only eat once every one or two days.
In India the Huri Krishna's started a program where they cooked Dhal to feed local school a hot meal eat day as part of their service to the community. It started small but now nearly the entire nation has one hot meal a day, 5 days a week, as the Indian government has come on board to help as well. Since the program began more and more kids are coming to school to get an education, mostly for the free meal, but as people become educated their life becomes better as more opportunities are opened up.
Therefore quantifying hunger is extremely hard, as hunger means different things to different people, different communities, different counties.
Sophie
Currently the only way that the world is able to produce enough food is to make it fertilised, Mrs Mathieson has told us about a lecture attended and how the lecturer had every 3rd person stand up, he then told them without man-made Nitrogen all the people who where standing would not survive. Unfortunately it would not be in the developed countries such as our own, that most people would die but in the developing nations.
Slowly as people begin to recognise the need for better management practices and the fact that as a world we need to be more practical, places such as shown in the video below – Youth Education Farms, will be a much-needed occurrence.
Youth Education Farms
What is hunger? Hunger is defined by the dictionary as “A feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat.” I think it depends on what you are used to, for me hunger is when I’ve skipped a meals throughout the day – and I am soooo hungry after school, but for others even in Australia they may not recognise skipping a snack as hunger when they may only eat once every one or two days.
In India the Huri Krishna's started a program where they cooked Dhal to feed local school a hot meal eat day as part of their service to the community. It started small but now nearly the entire nation has one hot meal a day, 5 days a week, as the Indian government has come on board to help as well. Since the program began more and more kids are coming to school to get an education, mostly for the free meal, but as people become educated their life becomes better as more opportunities are opened up.
India’s food school programs
Sophie
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