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Today in Social Studies, we are creating posters about rubbish and how we can help to reduce it. I made this poster with Elisha Mae and I think we did pretty good, whereas we had a short time to complete it. I hope you like it and have a great day.
Speeding Past School Experiment
Aim: To see how many cars are speeding past the school.
Method:
1) Measure the distance of power pole to power pole = 50m
2) Time how long it takes a car to travel this distance.
3) Collect 10 times.
4) Calculate speed in m/s then covert it to km/hr.
5) Are there any speeders?
Roles:
- "Flag" The person indicates when the car passes their pole.
- "Timer" The person starts when the car stops and when the car passes their pole.
- "Writer" The person writes down the time speeds.
Results:
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Today in Social Studies, we started a new task called Greenpeace. We were required to do a mini-research on it as well as answering three questions on our blog.
Who is Greenpeace?
Greenpeace is an international, self-sustaining organization that uses peaceful protest and productive ways of speaking out to reveal worldwide environmental problems. It develops solutions that are crucial to a green and peaceful future.
What have they done to make positive changes?
With their continuous strive through centuries, they have assembled at advance awareness and spoken out about the environmental issues that are happening on Earth. Greenpeace has continued to protest against nuclear testing, also to toxic-waste dumping, whaling, and other environmental issues. As a result, Greenpeace became a powerful influence on global environmental protection.
What are they doing now to help protect our oceans?
Greenpeace has helped to protect our oceans by getting together with scientists creating helpful ways of rescuing our oceans. They have started by constructing a global network of ocean "sanctuaries" that would be restricted to possible destructive production.
Resources:
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Today I will be blogging about what we have been working on in Music for the past few weeks. We were looking at Matariki and were required to research about it, recording it in a slideshow. There were four tasks assigned for us to complete, including detailed answers and interesting information. I hope you enjoyed viewing my post and learn something from my work.
Today in Social Studies, we were set another task to complete which is about Eco-Tourism. We need to write three paragraphs answering these three questions. I hope you enjoy this post.
- What is Eco-Tourism?
Eco-Tourism was created in the 1980s by an Academic Adventurer, Clause-Dieter. The definition present today is, a form of tourism involving responsible travel to natural destinations, minimal harmful impact on the environment, building environmental awareness among visitors, and improving local people's well-being. It is directed towards an exotic, often threatened and natural environment. The first general accepted definition of Eco-Tourism is to travel relatively undisturbed or uncontaminated areas with the specific objective of studying, admiring, and enjoying the scenery and its wild plants and animals. Eco-Tourism has many negative and positive benefits to our environment, for instance, negative benefits, the destruction of natural features; overused tracks lead to soil erosion and damage to vegetation. There are areas where they are becoming overused, causing danger. Tourist hotels are dumping waste into rivers producing water pollution. The positive benefits, firstly, it builds cultural and environmental awareness; encouraging positive experiences for visitors as well as hosts, secondly, it minimizes the impact of tourism if on the environment; reducing pollutions, natural habitat loss, increased endangered species etc, and another is the respect for local culture, supports humans right and democratic movement.
- Why is it a growing trend?
Eco-Tourism is a growing trend because it produces useful and helpful results for the environment along with improving the lives of local communities. It is both valuable and sustainable. There are many reasons and benefits why it is a growing trend, these include a higher rate of awareness about the need to protect the environment, it conserves the natural habitats and aquatic species, it encourages positive experience for visitors as well as hosts; minimizing the impact of tourism on the environment and it boosts local people to provide financial benefits in its favour.
- How does tourism help our oceans?
Eco-Tourism helps our oceans by protecting the species that lives in there, decreasing the damage being done by illegal fishermen such as overfishing and bycatch. Acknowledging and watching our actions when dealing with rubbish. Just basically helping it produce better quality ocean waters along with preventing such species to become instinctive and overpopulated.
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Today in Social Studies, we were assigned to write a Lawyer Paragraph declaring the two long term negative impacts of Overfishing. Here is the paragraph I have written:
Overfishing has been an ongoing issue and has been around for many decades. It is occurring in our oceans creating many negative consequences. The first example, it can cause overpopulation of other species, when fish being taken out of the oceans builds an imbalance that can destroy the food web and lead to other important marine life, including vulnerable species like sea turtles and corals. The second example, it affects the ecosystem. This is happening because overfishing damages the food chains, other creatures that rely on seafood have to alter and change their environment and characteristics. Animals go into force to travel to distant regions to live. When that occurs, they would be hunted down or imposed out of the place for not being their natural habitat. Another example is that it can increase pollution. Pollution is one of the main issues continuing today; the common pollutants affected are the oceans, environment and marine pollution. Bottom trawling and plastics are the most destructive. Numbers of garbage in the oceans produce water pollution, which can lead to danger to people and our animals to become unsafe. One more example just to set out more awareness of overfishing, it can cause the collapse of the total fish stock. Commercial fishing has made a negative impact on oceans uninhabitable to any form of marine life. As a result, fish populations have decreased by 90 per cent. If this doesn’t resolve, there will be more fish and other seafood sources available. In conclusion, as a result of these reasons we need to urgently prevent this issue of overfishing.
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Today this blog post is about what we have been doing for the past few weeks in English. We were assigned to create our own films in small groups, relating them to The Merchant of Venice story that we read at the start of the year. In my group was Jayden, Lasa, Camryn and Cruz.
1. What is your short film about? How is this a 're-telling of The Merchant of Venice?
Our film didn't really display any relation to the story Merchant of Venice at all, it was just camera angles on basketball shooting. However, before we started filming we were planning to make our film about Romeo and Juliet but instead, the boys ended up playing basketball.
3. What 2 additional film techniques did you use? What were the intended effects of these?
In our film we had to include the following angles/shots, Full shot, Long shot, Tilt, Pan, Close up, Extreme close up, Mid shot and two more techniques of our choice. We covered a few of the angles in our film like Pan and Close up. There were actually more than two film techniques we used in our film which was Wide shot, Tracking shot, High angle and Worms eyeshot.
These film techniques were intended to...
Tracking shot - To make the audience visual moving with the person and seeing what it's like when shooting the basketball from the player's point of view.
Wide shot - To show the body movement and footwork of the person. To tell the audience who is in the scene and where is the scene set.
4. What were some challenges you encountered while doing this project? What learnings did you gain from these challenges?
What our group found challenging was planning and deciding what we were going to film, especially if it had to identify The Merchant of Venice in it. Overall, in the end, we recorded a decent amount of angle/shots and made it to the point where we have a result to show with you guys.
Lesson learned: You can't do the work without asking for help and not knowing what to do.
5. What would you do differently if you were to do this project again?
I would probably choose carefully with who I might work with instead of working with people I know that won't cooperate with the work. I would also ask for more help when we are stuck and don't know what to do. I have learned my lesson when it comes to group work and noted that I have to pick wisely before confirming right away.
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Today I will be blogging about what we have been working on in Social Studies. The topic we are focusing on is Sustainable Fishing. We have been looking at a new way of presenting our work and have decided to create them on Prezi. This presentation includes 4 main sections as well as The Lawyer Paragraph; Commerical Fishing, By-Catch, Dolphin safe labels and Sustainable ways of fishing. I hope you enjoy reading my Prezi and learn something from this.
Hi everyone, today in Social Studies we are looking at Sustainable Fishing.
Is Sustainable Fishing even possible? I do not think that in the near future sustainable fishing will be possible. People have been fishing to feed their families and local communities, which has led to a massive amount of aquatic animals dying each year. Fishers have been removing more than 77 billion kilograms ( 170 billion pounds) of wildlife from the sea. More and more of our marine life are disappearing. Turtles are getting caught in nets, as well as dolphins seeking nets as a way to get food. While that being said, in order to prevent this from happening, fishers will need to start using sustainable fishing practices. As the common methods produced such as gill netting and trawling; it will be difficult to meet such demand during the ongoing actions of these methods.
How is commercial fishing a threat to dolphins and birdlife (bycatch)? Commercial fishing is a daily life serious threat to dolphins and birdlife. Why? It is because equipment like Purse seining, longlining and many other types of fishing, can result in a lot of bycatch. The definition of bycatch is when you catch species that weren't purposely targeted. The common bycatch species that were accidentally caught are dolphins, birdlife, sharks, turtles and many other species. There is around 40% of bycatch in fishing, 10,000 bycatch dolphins each year in France, and upsettingly it's estimated that 300,000 dolphins, whales, and porpoises are killed bycatch. We need to put an end to this promptly, although, commercially won't be possible.
Hi everyone, today in Social Studies we are looking at Shark Finning.
What is Shark Finning? Shark finning is when people cut off living sharks, fin and throw them back into the ocean, where it dies a slow and painful death. It is used in traditional Chinese dish that exists 1000 years before and it is called Shark-fin soup. It is considered a rare delicacy consumed by only the Chinese high class back in the day. The definition of the delicacy is something rare or expensive that is eaten during special occasions.
How is this impacting our oceans? If Sharks go instinct and disappear. The food chain cycle would collapse and the ecosystem would be torn. Especially Sharks are top of the food chain. That being said, we must put a stop to this issue. However, there is currently a new huge problem happening which is where people are preparing dishes out of Sharks meat. This will likely reduce the population of sharks even further.
What is the main message of this poem? That even the smallest change can make a difference.
Give evidence: The last sentence saying "it made a difference for that one"
Include an image:
THE STARFISH POEM
Once upon a time, there was a wise man
who used to go to the ocean
to do his writing.
He had a habit of walking
on the beach
before he began his work.
One day he was walking along
the shore.
As he looked down the beach,
he saw a human
figure moving like a dancer.
He smiled to himself to think
of someone who would
dance to the day.
So he began to walk faster
to catch up.
As he got closer, he saw
that it was a young man
and the young man wasn't dancing,
but instead, he was reaching
down to the shore,
picking up something
and very gently throwing it
into the ocean.
As he got closer he called out,
"Good morning! What are you doing?"
The young man paused,
looked up and replied,
"Throwing starfish in the ocean."
"I guess I should have asked,
why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?"
"The sun is up and the tide is going out.
And if I don't throw them in they'll die."
"But, young man, don't you realize that
there are miles and miles of beach
and starfish all along with it.
You can't possibly make a difference!"
The young man listened politely.
Then bent down, picked up another starfish
and threw it into the sea,
past the breaking waves and said-
"It made a difference for that one."
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Today in Social Studies, we have been creating our own Articles about the topic we are learning this term, GPGP (The Great Pacific Garbage Patch). We had to give an explanation about what the garbage patch is, how it is affecting the world as well as us humans, along with some more information. I have created my article on Canva. I hope you like it and learned something new.
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In Term 2 in Social Studies, we are focusing on the ocean of how it is polluted with garbage and plastics. We are mainly looking at GPGP which stands for 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch". We were assigned to create a slideshow about GPGP along with some question answering, information about it and as always sharing it on our blogs. Here is my work and I hope you learn something new from this.
