Plastic Straws Suck.

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Kia ora all

We are carrying on with looking at ways to help our environment!
Thanks for sharing your ideas last week! This week we are looking at single use
plastic straws.

Did you know that everyday we use enough straws to wrap around the world four times!?
Scientists think that at the moment there could be more than 5.2 trillion bits of
plastic in our oceans.

We want to take action this week, what can you do or design to help solve
the plastic straw problem?

We want to talk about your ideas! Can you design/make something to
solve this problem?

Room nine and ten did some persuasive writing to our local cafes to see if they
could stop using plastic straws.

Last week we started to track our rubbish, were you surprised how much you used?
Are you able to cut down on plastic?
If you have any great ideas make sure you put them onto the rubbish bag
flip grid https://flipgrid.com/71be22

Password: Enviroschool

Take a look at these two links:

https://www.facebook.com/brightvibes/videos/907487429437897/?hc_location=ufi

https://twitter.com/dukelyer/status/1009371266694799360

QUESTIONS:

Q1: Do you think you could live without straws? Why/why not?

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Q2: What did Molly Steer do about plastic straws? (Ted Talk Straw No More)

Q3: Molly said that some people need to use straws why do you think this is true?

Q4: What do you think you could do to help out the plastic problem?

Q5: What could you design to stop the use of plastic straws?
Feel free to post your creations if you have made something!

Q5: What questions do you have now about single use plastic items
(straws, cups, knives and forks etc)

Q6: What do you think you could do to cut down you waste?

Q7: Did you create a paper bag last week? How much rubbish did you collect?

Q8: How do you think you could convince someone else to stop using single use plastic?\

Sustainability

Kia ora everyone!

This week we want to talk about sustainability. This means doing things
that we can keep on doing without hurting our environment.
We want to know what this means for you.
What do you do at home and at school to help your environment.
Do you have any good ideas of how we can help our environment?
We would love to hear your ideas.

The enviro leaders from Hawea Flat School have a challenge for you.
You will need some newspaper to create your very own rubbish bag.
Leave your bag out and see how much rubbish you use each week
and if you can cut anything out.

Here is the link to their video you can add a video on the grid of you
making your own or add how much rubbish you have collected.

https://flipgrid.com/1c4a91

Password: Enviroschool

Feel free to add any ideas you have on how we can help our environment to this padlet

What does Sustainability look like in your local community?
















Questions:

1. What does sustainability mean to you?

2. What things do you do in your school that show sustainability?

3. How would you include sustainability practises into your day? Can you add some ideas of how you could help our environment to the padlet
https://padlet.com/kateb5/duriv1b990bp

4. Have seen any sustainable practises in you community?

5. Watch the video and take some time to make a rubbish holder post a photo of it if you can


6. List somethings that you could do at school to reduce your school’s carbon footprint.

7. What would you say to other students in your school about what they could do to develop sustainable practises at home and school?

See you Wednesday

Matariki 2018

Kia ora koutou,

Tenei wiki kei te ako matou e pa ana ki Matariki. 

Our chat will be on Wednesday 13 June.

Matariki is the Māori name for the star cluster known as the Pleiades. Traditionally for Māori when it appeared just before dawn in late May or early June, it signalled the start of the Māori New Year. Different tribes celebrated Matariki at different times.  For some it was when Matariki rose in May/June. For others it was celebrated at the first new moon, or full moon, following the rising of Matariki. In the 21st century it is the new moon following the rising of Matariki that signals the New Year. This year Matariki begins on the 15th of June.
I think that it is awesome to develop our knowledge of our collective heritage and identity.  

This made me wonder.........in your opinion or culture, when is New Year?  So get your curiosity and wondering brains in gear and challenge yourself to ask..... Is today really today? Does everyone around the world have the same date and time, or calendar as we use in New Zealand.

In preparation for our chat:

1. Design a poster to advertise Matariki (incorporate the star cluster and the time of year)

2. Watch the following videos 

This clip will help you learn all the names of the Matariki stars - enjoy singing along with Room 5 from Mahora Primary School- Awesome effort Miss Boaler and Rm 5



Questions:

1. What is Matariki?

2. There are two meanings to Matariki. Can you tell us what they are?

3. Matariki is referred to as the 'Māori New Year'.  When do other cultures/religions celebrate the New Year?

4. What does the rising of Matariki signal to the Māori?

5. Matariki played a significant role in determining when to plant foods such as kūmara (sweet potatoes). What did clear, bright stars indicate?

6. Matariki is a cluster of stars.  Do you know of any other star clusters or constellations in our southern skies?

7. Share with us the poster that you have designed and tell us about it.

8. In your opinion is Matariki important enough to be recognised as a National Holiday in NZ, if so why?



Have you tried a digital breakout with your class? There is a Matariki one coming soon.
Check out the link here

https://sites.google.com/view/mldavidson/digital-breakouts

See you on Wednesday 13 June.

Juliet Revell