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.

Sustainability Hurumanu - Research on Giant Pandas

For the last like 4 weeks in Hurumanu 1 we have been writing our essays about sustainability, the research Ive been researching about Giant Pandas going extinct. In essays you should have an introduction, 3 paragraphs and a conclusion. First I researched what are the causes, effects and solutions on how to make Giant Pandas not extinct. Then I put that information into a google slide to make your structure to make it easier to make your essay.

Here is my slideshow:




Then we had to write our essay into our own words and here it is.

Introduction:

Endangered animals are important because they are dying and getting killed of deforestation and habitat destruction.

Causes of Giant Pandas becoming extinct: 

Pandas population have been lowered because of habitat destruction. Pandas habitats get taken over by development which means it is pushing pandas into smaller and liveable places. Habitat destruction can also means there is not much food which means their won’t be much food for them to eat. Pandas eat many types of bamboo that bloom at different times of the year. If one type of bamboo is destroyed by development from people which means it can leave the pandas with nothing to have or eat. It can make a risk of starvation for the giant pandas. People go hunting for giant pandas for their fur to make clothes and other things. 

Effects on Giant Pandas going extinct:

Giant pandas die because of all sorts of things, one of them is deforestation and that is because it destroys and takes away the bamboo so then they cannot eat and they will die from starvation. Giant pandas also die because people destroy their habitat by taking all of the bamboo so then they have a livable home to live in. If they don’t have anything to eat and somewhere to live then they will die and become extinct.

How can we stop this:

Giant Pandas have lost their habitats because of deforestation and deforestation destroyed and took away bamboo so then the giant pandas couldn't eat and could die from starvation. But some government’s has worked to restore and protect pandas bamboo habitats and it has shown positive and good results. People can donate and restore bamboo for the pandas so they can live.

Here are some websites about giant pandas going extinct.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/giant-panda

https://animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/giant-panda/

Sustainability Hurumanu 1 - Semesta 2

For the last 6 weeks in Sustainability we have been learning about sustainability. For the first week in Sustainability we watched a couple of documentary's on Netflix about Covid 19 because this was the first week back from Coronavirus, I didn't watch much because I fell asleep. After we finished watching them documentary's it was period 4 so we didn't have time to do anything else. The 2nd week of Sustainability we have been learning about statistical inquiry and what that means is that the statistical inquiry cycle helps you to get data. For that week we made a storie and we made that storie into a graph chart, I chose to do a pie graph because it was the easiest one to do. My pie chart was about console games and so we wrote games down and went around asking people what one they wanted to chose. The highest console game picked was call of duty. The 3rd week we were learning about natural resources and sustainability. What we did was we went through the google slide with activitys that we had to do and then we had to sort out what the meaning of sustainability resources are because they were scrambled. The 4th week we watched a few videos of this guy talking about writing and the joy of writing. The 5th week we were looking at writing and research on sustainability issues. First we were looking at 12 ways on how to start a sentence for writing and we were also looking at 8 ways of handy paragraphs. Then we were using the paragraph card structure to record our research on sustainability issues and we went to the library to look at different forms of information. Then in week 6 we were looking at area, population and calculations. So what we did was we learnt some core mathematical skills to apply our understanding of sustainability.

 Reflection on my learning.

What did you take away from this course?

I took away on how to start a sentence for a paragraphs and I also learnt how to record research with the paragraph card structure.

What did you enjoy?

What I enjoyed was making the graph with the information, I also enjoyed listening to music and eating while doing our work as long as we get the work done.

What suggestions for change do you have?

To learn more about maths because I am quiet bad at it.

Here is some of the work that I have completed.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyf8fTu7sckz-7X07ld7aj88vsNrj2aFK9ua6kEqrwc/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QD87Mpmij0chO9TKWCcidN7VVPnWhkdLqrfm6uUW5qI/edit