Sustainability - Summary

For the last 13 weeks of this Hurumanu called sustainability we have done many things about sustainability and other things about the world. This was probably the best hurumanu so far this year because we could listen to music, eat when we are doing our work and we could drink when ever we want and but most importantly doing all of the fun work we had to do. I thing I like about our teacher Mr Carter is he actually explains the activity or the work we have to do properly and he also actually explains the topic we are learning about properly so we actually know what to do. But most teachers just say what we have to do and doesn't explain it that much.

For the first week of this hurumanu we watched a documentary on Netflix on Coronavirus and how it was made and developed. Then we were looking about sustainability and what it is. In the second week of this hurumanu we were learning about statistical inquiry and how to collect our data using graphs. The graphs we used were pie, bar, line and stacked bar graphs I used the pie or the stacked bar graph because they are the easier ones. In the third week of this hurumanu we were looking at natural resources and more of sustainability but first we did a few activitys about natural resources but before that we learned about what are natural resources and their definitions. In week four we watched some videos about writing and why we do it, then we were learning about writing on sustainability issues. In week five we did a writing (cont) and research about sustainability issues. In week six-eight we did some maths and been learning about area, population and calculations on mathletics, our teacher also taught us about measurements. Then in week eight we learnt about applications of area, perimeter and volume so what we did with that is we made things with 3D on tinkercad. In week nine we did a revision and a catch up on mathletics and then we did a assesment on mathletics. In week nine-thirteen we did a sustainability report on a topic of our choice. Towards this topic we did a research about our topic for our essay that we did. After that a few weeks after that we got to choose to make a game on game fruit or on a game website or we got to make a board game about a sustainability topic. My group chose to make a board game but we didn't have enough time to finish making the board, we did our board based of monopoly and gumption.

Here is a photo of our board that we didn't get to finish because we didn't have enough time. I dont like any of the colours but we did the board game about endangered animals. Here is the draft and planning on making the board game.

Society Endangered

Endangered animals:

• Tiger
• Gorilla
• Giant pandas
• Black rhino
• Aisan elephant
• Orangutans
• Snow leopard
• Leatherback sea turtle

Resource cards for each animal:

Breeding programme

Conservation practice 

Wildlife protection

Other cards:

Reward Cards

Risk cards

Go to jail cards

Rules: 

• Aim of the game is to collect 3 full sets of animals to win
• Maximum of 3 resource cards per animal
• You have to trade your way out of trouble by selling some of your resources.
• The bank isn't allowed to buy back anything
• You can trade some of your resources to another player
• If you go to jail you have to miss your next turn or pay $200 to get out
• If you go pass go you can collect $200 from the bank
• If you land on tax you have to pay $150

Game setup:

• One player is the banker
• Maximum of 4 players
• Place the risk cards and the SE cards down on the board
• Give each player 10x $1 10x $5 10x $10 10x $20 4x $100 2x $500

Critical reflection:

I really liked this hurumanu because it was very fun to do and I learned alot on sustainability and writing. I would of liked Mr Carter to give us more time on this board game so we could finish it.