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TOPIC TERM THREE!

This term our topic was Us, Now, and in the Future. We've done three mini inquiries. The first one we got to choose to do it about something that has changed either in the past, present or future.

I chose to do mine on Future Architecture.

For the second mini Inquiry, we had to find out about the country of Georgia, because the Wairarapa is hosting them for the Rugby World cup. You can go to this link to check mine and Bella's : https://sites.google.com/a/greytownschool.com/alicesusnowandinthefuture/home/georgia

For our third Inquiry, we had to choose an aspect of the All Blacks (New Zealand's rugby team) and compare it to what it was like at the first Rugby World Cup. Here is mine and Michaela's.

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That is all for topic so far this term!

Fresh water Ecology

Today we watched a movie called The Guardian of the Mauri. It tied in with our topic, because it was about the pollution to the rivers and streams. I learnt that we have to be careful with what we put into the rivers and streams, and if we look after the waterways, they will look after us.

What is Mauri? I think Mauri is the rivers and streams, Nature. The life force that creates all of these things.

Positive things happening to the Rivers and streams Some of the rivers and streams aren't polluted. The word seems to be getting round about how we need to look after our Mauri. Fish were still reproducing fish.

<span style="color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Negaitve things that are happening to our streams <span style="color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">There's chemicals in the water <span style="color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">The water tastes bad <span style="color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">There's rubbish in the water <span style="color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The animals are dying

<span style="color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Tomorrow w e are going to our school creek at the end of the field, to see if anything has changed since we made it enviromentally friendly.

<span style="color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">What should we see in our waterways?

Clean and Clear water Lots of Fish, creatures and plants No rubbish

What I expect to Find in our Creek

A bit of weeds and mud Fish Lots of plants

<span style="color: #10b226; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Lake Taupo is the biggest Lake in new Zealand, and the biggest body of water in Australasia. Lake Taupo was formed by past volcanic activity. It has 40 streams and rivers flowing from it. The largest rivers are the Tongiriro River, the Waitahanui River and The Hinemaiaia The fresh water leaves the catchment, via the Waikato River. There is also lot's of smaller lakes, which were also formed by volcanic activity.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">There is only so much Fresh water on Earth. We need Fresh Water for nearly anything we do. How would we live without it? <span style="color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 130%;">Fresh water is under threat, because introduced species such as Catfish, are ruining the foodchain and ruining the environment. People are using to much water for things such as irrigation. When storm water runs off roofs and drains, it goes into the waterways, carrying pollution.

<span style="color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">People are trying to get rid of pest fish and Didymo. Also people are being told not to release any new fish or weeds.

BIODIVERSITY

<span style="color: #5f00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">S <span style="color: #5f00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">o really what is biodiversity?

<span style="color: #5f00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">BioDiversity: Biological + Diversity=Biodiversity

<span style="color: #5f00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">I think that biodiversity is the world, and how we need to keep saving our precious Earth. More than ever before, animals, plants etc have been becoming endangered and extinct. Instead of saying we need to save the world, we say 'Biodiversity' instead of branching out and elaborating on the topic.


 * __<span style="color: #5f00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">My Wonderings about Biodiversity __**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">-What can we do to help biodiversity and help save our Earth? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">-What can we do to learn about biodiversity and spread the word? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #03ba03; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">-How do we help people learn about the importance of biodiversity, and how it concerns everybody?

Here is part one of my inquiry. We were in partners, so I went with Giorgia. We had to choose a New Zealand Disaster. We chose to do the Cave Creek disaster. media type="custom" key="9699498"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">WHAT"S THE PLAN STAN?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">For term 2, our topic is what's the plan stan. We are learning about disasters, natural and non-natural. You can see some activities I've been doing, on my other wikispace: New-Zealand-disasters-by-Alice <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">We have been learning about historical disasters that have happened in New <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">Zealand

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">For digital citizenship, we learnt about technology and leaving a good carbon footprint on the world. We learnt about internet safety, and not giving out too much information about yourself, and so on. Here is a movie about why I like using laptops in our school.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">PUBERTY

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">We have been learning about puberty in class for topic. We're learning about the changes people go through, both physical and emotional.