Summer Learning Journey | Week Two- Day Five ( Activities 1, 2 and 3)

Week Two- Day Five |  Everyday heroes
Activity 1

For this activity, please brainstorm at least five ways we could support the people who are affected by the fires in New South Wales, Australia. You could think of ways to raise money, things to send them, and ways to keep them feeling positive.

On your blog, share your brainstorm of ideas and create a video or audio recording of yourself explaining each idea.

Watching the news and reading articles and newspapers about what is happening to our world ( in particular Australia) is devastating and people like me who aren’t affected need to send help straight away. The fires are spreading, houses are burning down, and people are losing everything they have. So we need to make a difference and help these people.

When you lose something, in this case your house, you need money to get some of that back. Raising money is a great idea and something we should start with to help. 

How can we raise money?
You know those plastic containers at your local supermarkets with a picture of an animal, this is a donation box. This is where people can choose to drop in any amount of money they want to help anyone or anything in need.

In my town, we have a place called the Warehouse. When you get to the checkout where you pay for your items, every now and then the staff members ask if you would like to donate $2 to some type of charity to help something or someone’s. We could do something like that to get people to know that there are people out there in the world who need our help, and for them to at least think about donating some type of money would be fine.

My next idea on how we could raise money is by television ads. Spreading a message or a video countrywide or worldwide would be a fantastic idea. How can we raise money by a television ad? Well, that’s easy! Inside of the ad, there could be a link at the bottom of the screen to where you can go and donate money online. I haven’t seen anything like this before, but it wouldn’t hurt to try it out.

When certain people or a certain person is going through a rough time, they need support more than anything. What I mean by support is being there for them and just helping them. When feeling down, when that one person helps and supports you  it feels great doesn’t it , just to have someone by your side. How would you think it would feel to have most of the world supporting you?

When being in a rough state, they least you need it negativity. Have you ever been given negativity when you are in a rough state? I have, and no one else should experience that too. When you meet these people or you know them, do not give them any negativity, give them positivity. Say things like ‘everything will be okay’ or ‘don’t give up, your almost there!’. Saying things like this always puts a smile on someone's face and makes them feel that little bit better about the situation they are involved with. Even giving things like compliments makes them feel better about themselves, and if they aren’t happy, help them be happy.

There is nothing as good as been given some type of gift. When I am given a gift or a card, I am always extremely grateful for it because I don’t get many. When been given something, does it make you feel special in a way? For me it does. It would be amazing if you could write something nice inside of the card and make them feel even better.

My next idea on how to raise money is by doing raffles. There are people doing raffles all around town all the time, so they are pretty popular. Each raffle ticket will cost $2, we write down your phone number and then you are in the draw to win a prize. We have different prizes you could win, like a chocolate hamper, laundry hamper, etc. How do people win? When we do the last of the phone numbers, the lines on where we write the phone numbers on will have a number to the left. For example,   the three numbers from 1- 378 would be drawn out at random and these numbers would have a phone number, we call them and tell them about the prize they have won and where they can receive the prize from.

My last idea on how to help the people in Australia with the fires is to donate not only money but food and water. You are probably wondering, but couldn’t they just use the money? They can’t if shops aren’t open and they have no way of getting there. Giving them food and water would keep their bodies healthy and strong. 

All the money from these donations would be given to the people in need in Australia to help get what they had back. These people can use the money in whatever way they want, it just has to be appropriate to the topic.

Ways we can help the people involved with the fires in Australia (video)

Week Two- Day Five | Leading by Example
Activity 2

For this activity, we would like you to follow in their footsteps and perform a random act of kindness.

On your blog, describe your random act of kindness. What did you do? How did the person react? How did it make you feel?

There are many things I could do to help another person. Throughout the years I have done many things like, rubbish clean-ups, local library helping, and giving company to the elders. One thing that I do a lot is helping my Mum. This can be from bringing in the rubbish bin to luxing the house, doing the dishes, mowing the lawns, helping with dinner, etc. My mother works from six to seven hours a day and has to come home to a family of six and cook dinner, so she is a full-on working Mum. I do what I do because her coming home and not having to do as much as she would of, is a big relief for her and creates more happiness within the family as well as time for herself. 

My Mum always has a big smile on her face when she sees that there are no dishes in the sink on the bench, the floor is clean and the house is overall tidy. With everything, she is given or helped with she is always so grateful and says a big ‘ thank you’. I always do this not expecting anything in return, but she usually gives me a little pocket money for my hard work.

Doing this for my Mum made me really happy because when she is happy, the whole family is happy. Doing things around the house, to help my Mum, also feels like I have done something great to help her and I feel relaxed myself.

Week Two- Day Five | Choose your own
Activity 3
For this activity, choose one person and read all about them.

On your blog, provide us with:

1. The name of the person
2. A description of the work they do/have done
3. An explanation of how they/their work has had an impact on the lives of others

There are so many different types of activists I can choose from to do this task. If I had to choose, I would pick David Attenborough. David Attenborough is a well-known man for his voice-overs, with animals, news and a climate change activist.

A climate change activist is a collective of nongovernmental groups of people engaged in activism to do with climate change. These types of people are great at telling stories and aware people about how the world is changing and what is changing.

David Attenborough’s work impacts on the lives of animals and humans. David informs and persuades people on what it happening to Earth and what we could do to help. He spreads messages in articles, news and does speech’s live. This impacts animals because the temperatures and the changes in the world that is happening are suited to their lifestyles and his work is causing people to make a change which is helping the animals. David’s work impacts humans too because he changes the outlook on what people may have thought of the world to something even better. By people listening to what he has to say, it makes people think for longer than a second, about how horrible climate change is the futures of people. This causes us to immediately make a change to what we are doing such as carbon monoxide, fossil fuels, plastics, etc.

Food Chain and Food Webs

Summer Learning Journey Week Four Day Three Activity 1,2 and 3

Activity 1 Week Four Day Three
Success Criteria: Click on the links below to watch videos about three of the current projects operating to make New Zealand ‘Predator Free by 2050.’

Predator Free Video #1: Cacophony Project

Predator Free Video #2: Taranaki Mounga Project

Predator Free Video #3: Zero Invasive Predators (ZIP)

On your blog, tell us which one of the videos you liked the best and why..

The video I was interested in and liked the best was the third one called “Zero Invasive Predator (ZIP).”

I liked this video the best because  DOC and NEXT joined and are making progress. With this collaboration they are planning to make New Zealand predator free by 2050. I also liked this video the best because I am against all this stuff about pests so I understood why they are doing this. Lastly,  if your country was riddled with pests and were decreasing all your native animals how does that make you feel? When you have people in your country that are making a change to New Zealand it makes a huge impact.

Activity 2 Week Four Day Three

Success Criteria:Once you have learned more about this unique dolphin, it is time for you to share your learning with us.

On your blog, post three facts that you learned about the Māui Dolphin. Then, using your imagination, create three more statements about Māui dolphins that are not true (i.e. false). Please don’t tell us which of your statements about Māui Dolphins are true and which are false. It will be the job of the students and staff who read your blog to figure it out.

True or False?

1)Māui Dolphins have a pointed fin

2)Māui Dolphins only grow their population every year by 2%

3) The Māui Dolphin are very close to extinction

4)They communicate through whistles

5)Māui Dolphins can be found only in Māui.

6)Māui and Hector dolphins looks the same but they are different

Activity 3 Week Four Day Three
Success Criteria:On your blog, list 10 species (animals or plants) that you would protect from extinction. For each one, give a reason as to why you think it is important to protect.

Māui Dolphin- I think the Māui Dolphin is important to protect because there is fewer more than 50 of these dolphins left.

Borneo Elephant- I think the Borneo elephant needs to be protected because elephants are such cool creatures and this type is endangered.

Macaws- I think the Macaws need to be protected before they do become endangered because they are beautiful and colourful birds and they are very hard to find.

Panda- I think that any panda needs to be protected because they are starting to get really really endangered.

Monkeys and Chimpanzees- I think we all need to get prepared to protect the monkeys and chimpanzees because they are very similar to us humans and if they go extinct or really badly endangered it would be sad to not see an animal just like us anymore.

Sea Turtles- I think that if i got the change I would try and to protect the sea turtles because these wonderful animals are only dying because of our pollution in the ocean.

All types of Rhinoceros- I think we seriously need to protect the rhinos because they are critically endangered and there are now only two females left in the whole world.

Crocodiles- I would like to protect the crocodiles because people are hunting them and killing them for some stupid reason to get paid.

Alligators- I would like to protect the alligators for just the same reason for the crocodiles and because they are both badly endangered.

Siberian Tiger- I would like to try and protect the Siberian Tiger because this type of tiger is badly endangered and I would like to change that and grow their population.