Yesterday we based our group guided reading around a discussion text about Global Warming.
The Earth is warmed by absorbing the sun. About a third of the heat is then reflected back into the atmosphere. This then becomes heat energy. Some of this heat can get trapped in the lower atmosphere by certain gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour. This means that with the build up of these gases the Earth is warming up. This is called the Greenhouse Effect.
We found out that we are releasing too many of these gases into the atmosphere and that it is causing a lot of damage. Palaeontologists believe that it will lead to more animals and plants becoming extinct. This will upset the food chain.
Something else we found out was that our pollution is greater now than it has ever been in history. If we don't make changes global warming will increase evaporation and as a result there will be less water to sustain forests. Farmlands could become deserts and the water in our lakes could become dry. We can't survive without water!
What are you as an individual trying to do to save the environment? What could you change to help?
Cowley Reading Group in Room 14
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Room 12's new enviro blog!
Come and have a look at Room 12's new Enviro Freaks blog!!
This blog will show you what you can do to save energy and preserve our environment!
www.envirofreaks.blogspot.com.
This blog will show you what you can do to save energy and preserve our environment!
www.envirofreaks.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Room 13's Wind Farm Investigation
This week Room 13 is writing an exposition on our opinion of building a wind farm in the hills above Eastbourne. After exploring www.generationisland.co.nz we recorded the pros and cons of wind energy on the T-chart below.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Friendly Footprints
Rooms 4 and 5 made friendly footprints all the way to the Senior School to explore how Muritai is an Enviroschool. Lulu and Kate were our enviro tour guides!
Firstly we went to see the big rubbish bins by the school library. In the big orange bin we place everything that is going to the landfill. In our new flash blue bin we put paper to be recycled. Our G.O.O.S.E. paper ends up either in the big blue bin or Mrs Skilton uses it for photocopying. Sometimes we draw on the G.O.O.S.E. paper too. We also saw one of the red food scrap bins and we were impressed to see food scraps in it! There is also an orange bin that we put glass, plastic in.
Next we travelled over to the Senior School to visit our friends the worms! The worms eat all of our food scraps and they turn it into worm juice. The worm juice is put into soil. The soil is used to grow vegetables. We were really impressed with how spectacular the gardens were. The vegetables were very healthy, big and juicy! Yummmmm!
We learnt that worms have two heads! Worms can’t eat all food scraps so the left over food goes into the compost bins. The compost is used for soil.
Muritai School even recycles classrooms! We saw the new Room 24 which is really a recycled classroom as it has been used before.
We would like to thank Lulu and Kate for teaching us how to leave Friendly Footprints at school and at home.
Firstly we went to see the big rubbish bins by the school library. In the big orange bin we place everything that is going to the landfill. In our new flash blue bin we put paper to be recycled. Our G.O.O.S.E. paper ends up either in the big blue bin or Mrs Skilton uses it for photocopying. Sometimes we draw on the G.O.O.S.E. paper too. We also saw one of the red food scrap bins and we were impressed to see food scraps in it! There is also an orange bin that we put glass, plastic in.
Next we travelled over to the Senior School to visit our friends the worms! The worms eat all of our food scraps and they turn it into worm juice. The worm juice is put into soil. The soil is used to grow vegetables. We were really impressed with how spectacular the gardens were. The vegetables were very healthy, big and juicy! Yummmmm!
We learnt that worms have two heads! Worms can’t eat all food scraps so the left over food goes into the compost bins. The compost is used for soil.
Muritai School even recycles classrooms! We saw the new Room 24 which is really a recycled classroom as it has been used before.
We would like to thank Lulu and Kate for teaching us how to leave Friendly Footprints at school and at home.
World Environment Day
World Environment Day
Our year 5 & 6 team decided that our action for World Environment Day would be to clean up some of our local environment. We cleaned up around Bishops Park playground and part of the beach area. We were incredibly surprised by how much rubbish we found.
Room 11's Beach Clean Up.
Our team's action for environment day was to do a beach and park clean up. Armed in pairs with gloves and rubbish bags we hit the beach at about 9.30. At first glance it didn't look too bad but once we got started we found lots of rubbish like plastic wrappers and cigarette butts.Quite a lot was hidden in the dunes. We were not impressed!
At the end we tipped out all out rubbish on the beach and looked at it. Yuk it was awful. We think that people should take their rubbish home and think about the impact that their rubbish has on the environment.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Spades, Flax and Penguins!
Today Ms Berry and some of our Enviro-team met up with the Eastbourne Dune Preservation Society to complete a project, which was started two years ago.
They were just seeds when the we received them in 2006, but today the flax were big enough to be planted in the rocky area next to the Rec.
We worked along side the EDPS to create safe places where the little blue penguins can nest, when they come ashore later in July.
The children worked like troopers and managed to plant the 120 or so flax's in under one hour!
The society were really thankful for the children's help, and have asked us to harvest more native flax seeds to plant out next year.
It is really great to be an active part of keeping Eastbourne's wildlife and flora safe.
And we weren't the only ones at the rec today... we were especially blessed to find a tiny pair of little blue penguins snuggled tightly into a rock crack- just making sure we were planting the flax in the right place.
Well Done t all those involved!
They were just seeds when the we received them in 2006, but today the flax were big enough to be planted in the rocky area next to the Rec.
We worked along side the EDPS to create safe places where the little blue penguins can nest, when they come ashore later in July.
The children worked like troopers and managed to plant the 120 or so flax's in under one hour!
The society were really thankful for the children's help, and have asked us to harvest more native flax seeds to plant out next year.
It is really great to be an active part of keeping Eastbourne's wildlife and flora safe.
And we weren't the only ones at the rec today... we were especially blessed to find a tiny pair of little blue penguins snuggled tightly into a rock crack- just making sure we were planting the flax in the right place.
Well Done t all those involved!
Friday, June 6, 2008
Recycling Room 6!
We have been trying super hard to make sure that we recycle everything that we can in our room!
With our snazzy new 'rubbish' bin, it is easy for us to separate our rubbish from out recycling. The Enviroschools team came to talk to us about what we can put in our big green recycling bin and ever since, we have been working hard to make sure that we reduce, re-use and recycle everything that we can!
Ted has been a great help to us with this - letting us know when we have things in our bins that could go into different bins, we enjoy his visits to the class at the end of each day!
Just one way we are making Friendly Footprints in our community!
With our snazzy new 'rubbish' bin, it is easy for us to separate our rubbish from out recycling. The Enviroschools team came to talk to us about what we can put in our big green recycling bin and ever since, we have been working hard to make sure that we reduce, re-use and recycle everything that we can!
Ted has been a great help to us with this - letting us know when we have things in our bins that could go into different bins, we enjoy his visits to the class at the end of each day!
Just one way we are making Friendly Footprints in our community!
Junior Syndicate Walking School Bus
What a way to start the day!
The Junior Syndicate walked to school for World Environment Day. We certainly reduced our carbon footprints and had a lot of fun doing it!
It was fabulous to have lots of our older and younger brothers and sisters, Mums and Dads, teachers, dogs and even our Police Education Officer, Constable Catherine, joining us for our walk!
Have a look at our pictures to see all the fun we had, making a difference to the world that we live in!
The Junior Syndicate walked to school for World Environment Day. We certainly reduced our carbon footprints and had a lot of fun doing it!
It was fabulous to have lots of our older and younger brothers and sisters, Mums and Dads, teachers, dogs and even our Police Education Officer, Constable Catherine, joining us for our walk!
Have a look at our pictures to see all the fun we had, making a difference to the world that we live in!
Junior Team Tree Planting
Each of the classes in the Junior Syndicate planted their own Hebe Tree this afternoon. Ted helped us to plant our trees. We looked at how to 'wiggle' out the roots of the plant to ensure that the tree has the best opportunity to grow. We also looked at patting down the soil around the newly planted tree so that it will get comfortable and grow up big and strong.
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