Summer Learning Journey Week One/Day Three Activity 2

Activity 2 The Secretive Skink (4 points)

Success Criteria: On your blog list three pros (good things) and three

cons (bad things) about working as a DOC ranger. At the bottom of your

post, tell us whether you would like to be a DOC Ranger or not.

Good Things                                                            

-One good thing about being a DOC ranger is that they are

helping little animals everywhere over NZ such as the native

Kiwi.

-A second good thing about being a DOC ranger is that they

help our environment such as native trees.

-Lastly a good thing about being a DOC ranger is that 1080

does still help our New Zealand animals by  killing all their

predators mostly just pests but there are bad things as well

about 1080.

Bad Things

-One bad thing about being a DOC ranger is that they want 1080.

1080 is a poison that gets put everywhere to kill pests but its not

only killing pest its killing farm dogs, native birds, horses, cats,

sheep etc.

-A second bad thing about being a DOC ranger is if you are in the

bush locating animals or plants or helping them, hunters close by

may think you are a deer or some type of hunting animal and you

can get shot easily.

-The last bad thing about being a DOC ranger is that you don’t get

paid much for doing the job. The minimum pay for a job an hour is
$16.50 and some DOC rangers get paid $15 which is below on how
much you should be paid.

When I am old enough I wouldn't want to work as a DOC ranger.
I wouldn't want to because all this stuff about 1080 is annoying me how
they want to use it.
Although I would also love to help the environment, trees, native birds
and other animals to let them live for longer and to stop them being
endangered and going extinct. This is also a job I wouldn't really be
interested in even though I love animals and like to help them I
just think working as a doc ranger is not a good job for me.

Summer Learning Journey Week One/Day Three Activity 1

Week One, Day Three

Activity 1 Fantastic Beasts (4 points)

Success Criteria: On your blog, post a description of your beast. Use interesting adjectives
(describing words) to tell us about your beast.

One beautiful christmas morning a tall obese giant awoken. His big feet stormed through the small town of Greymouth. His heavy feet woke every little child that was asleep, but only the children. Children run to their christmas tree thinking it was the real santa. Then suddenly a scary big footed monster had stormed in. “Santa?” asked a little child. It wasn’t santa it was a fake one with a disgusting green suit with a deep blood red hat. Boom!
The door had been opened, little elfs like sidekicks appeared. The tall obese giant with a big black sack hanging over its shoulder had snuck to the vibrant christmas tree taking all the gifts, leaving nothing behind. “Ha Ha Ha!” The giants deep voice echoed through the house as he went through the door. “No more Christmas, I’m going to stop this once and for all!” whispered the scary giant.