DAY 5: The Sky’s the Limit!
Activity 1: Environment Day - Beat Plastic Pollution [4 points]
Every year we celebrate World Environment Day in June. On World Environment Day we do what we can to protect our planet. This year the focus is on reducing the use of plastic bags and water bottles. Watch this Environment Day video to learn more about it!
What could you and your family do to protect the planet?
On your blog tell us three things that you could do to help save the planet.
1. I could get rid of plastic in my environment.
2. I could help people in need by helping them when they fall down and giving spare change to homeless people.
3. I could set a good example to little kids by educating them and telling them to do good things.
2. I could help people in need by helping them when they fall down and giving spare change to homeless people.
3. I could set a good example to little kids by educating them and telling them to do good things.
Activity 2: Adoption Day [4 points]
Not only can you help the planet by reducing, reusing and recycling, you can also help to save animals and plants by ‘adopting’ them. To ‘adopt’ an animal through the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), you need to visit they're adopt a species page, read through the list of animals and choose one.
With the WWF, you don’t actually adopt the animal and bring it home! It’s a symbolic adoption. In this case you pay a fee ($55.00) and the money is used to provide food and care for your chosen animal. Visit the WWF site and take a look at the animals who are available for adoption. Choose your ‘top three’ animals from the website.
On your blog, list the three animals that you have chosen and then compare and contrast them. How are they similar? How are they different? At the bottom of your post, tell us which of the three animals you would most like to adopt..
The animal that I would adopt would be the Cheetah. The reason why I would adopt the cheetah is that I could train it to chase down thieves or bad people which would be a good idea because Cheetahs are a lot faster than humans.
Activity 3: Concluding the Journey [10 points]
Sadly, the Summer Learning Journey has now come to an end. It is time to reflect on everything that you have learned about the environment and, particularly, about how you can protect and preserve it.
On your blog please tell us:
- What is one thing that you learned from participating in the Summer Learning Journey programme this year? That Greenhouse gases increase Smog, Mold and Pollen
- What is one thing that surprised you? That the Earths oceans are polluted badly.
- What is one thing that concerned or upset you? That New Zealand is going to be underwater in the future
- What is one thing that you (or your family) can do, moving forward, to help protect our natural environment? I (My family) could help get rid of rubbish and plastic in my environment.
