Social Studies - GPGP Poster

This term in Social studies I have learnt alot about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the causes and affects on the marine life and us humans life. I have learnt alot about how plastic and rubbish in general affects us humans and the marine life. We had to make a poster about what has been happening including the affects and causes. Here is my poster that I have created.

English - Bias/Agenda

Bias - When you unfairly favour one side of an argument. 

Source - Where you got the information from.

Credible - Factual, truthful, reliable.

Authority - The authority has good/in depth knowledge of the subject.

Reliable - Can trust that this information is correct. 

Perspective - Point of view, the way you see it.

Agenda - What you are trying to do, eg convince of a fact.

Manipulate - Mould something into what you want it to be.

English - Brainstorming task (PE class waste students learning time)

English - Brainstorming task (Cats makes better pets than dogs)

 

English - Critical Literacy

Is this text fair?

- This text is fair because it shows that young adults / adults shouldn't be driving when they are drunk.

How are children, teenagers or young adults constructed in this text?

- That young adults and men like to drink alot and they are more likely to drink drive

How does the text present age, gender or cultural groups?

- That males are more alcoholic and they just star at woman. 

Why is the text written this way?

- To show people why it is important to not drink and drive. It also shows what happens when you drink and drive.

English - Critical Literacy

1) What makes this video convincing?

- The doctor

- The acting which makes it look realistic

- How it is on a news show

- The looks and features that are including in the video

- Had actual photos of brain scans 

2) Who published this video?

- The Onion News Network

3) How are teenagers portrayed in this clip?

- Teenagers seem more lazy people than anyone else

- Teenagers are more addicted to technology than being social to their parents

4) Why has the director cast them this way?

- To show what teenagers behaviour is like and how it affects peoples lifes

5) In whose interest in the text?

- The parents interest this video just to have a laugh and because of how teenagers these days act the same way as the character.

6) Who is real in this text?

- The people that are acting but the characters that they are trying to portray is fake 

7) What social realities does this video portray?

- The were protesting in some of these clips

Social Studies - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

This week in Social Studies we have been learning about the ocean connecting to The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 

We have learnt that some of the oxygen that we breath comes from the ocean, if we didn't have oceans we probably would't survive. The great pacific garbage patch is the biggest garbage patch in the world, it is located halfway between Hawaii and California. There is more than 1.8 trillion pieces of rubbish in the garbage patch and ways about 80,000 tones, 80,000 pieces of plastic is about the same weight as 500 jumbo jets.

Here is a slideshow that I have created with some questions that I have answered.