Our+Living+World

28/06/2011 Today we watched a movie about our streams and how dirty they are getting because of people littering in the river. The river is very polluted, so the movie showed us what is happening to all the fish in the river.

I think watching this movie made me learn to not litter in the water, and that fish really do suffer from our mistakes and they didn't do anything to deserve to suffer but they have to because we are to lazy to walk and put our rubbish in the bin.

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WALT: Understand how our world works: I think Biodiversity is all the animals on our planet and the places that they live.

My three wondering:


 * Why is biodiversity important? **

Why are people concerned about the loss of biodiversity?
Fresh Water Ecology- Taupo / Turangi

1. Tell us about Lake Taupo: Did you know... Lake Taupo was made by the largest known eruption of the past 5,000 years, it was so big the sun went misty in China. The remaining is a lake the size of Singapore and the largest fresh water lake in Australasia. It is in the middle of the North Island. 2. Why is it precious? 3. Why is it under threat? 4. What is being done about the threats?

On Thursday the 2nd of June, we went into room 14 and had a skype session with a cheese maker. The cheese maker worked on an organic farm. Students from our syndicate asked him lot's of questions and we found out a lot about his job. During the skype session we had to write down facts and points and then we had to put our information we found out onto a document. Here mine is: