Activity 1:Persistent Pollution
In 2016, the World Health Organisation announced that Timaru, a small town in the South Island of New Zealand, had the highest recorded levels of air pollution in New Zealand. Some of this pollution was caused by natural events (eg. fires) but most of it was produced (made) by humans.
Watch this short video on air pollution. It will tell you more about natural and human causes of pollution.
On your blog, share three new things that you learned about air pollution from this video.
I Learnt That
Some Air Pollution Is Caused From Natural Sources.
Most Comes From Human Activity's.
There Is Different Types Of Human-Made Air Pollution.
Activity 2: Changing Climates
Over the past decade, the climate in New Zealand (and around the world) has been changing. In fact, the climate has been getting warmer and warmer. While many of us like warm weather, climate change is not good news. Higher temperatures can cause glaciers to melt (leading to flooding) and increase the amount of rain that falls.Here in New Zealand, we have noticed the change. In fact, we sometimes have torrential (huge) rain storms causing flooding, landslides and road closures. When it starts to rain really hard, Aronui and I usually hide out in our lounge and play games like Yahtzee, Monopoly and Uno. If it rains all day, we will also spend some time reading, watching movies and baking.
What about you? What do you like to do on a rainy day?
On your blog, tell us about five things that you like to do when it is too rainy to go outside..
I Like To:
1. Go On My Cromebook And Some Extra Home Work
2. Read A Book
3. Do Some Drawing
4. Practice Getting Better At My Make Up
5. Play Games
6. Prank My Brothers
Bonus Activity: Let It Rain
Over the past few decades, we have seen an increase in the amount of rain that falls here in New Zealand. We are lucky, however, that most of the rain that falls is regular rainwater and not polluted acid rain. Acid rain is rain that has bad chemicals (pollutants) in it. When acid rain hits the ground it can enter the water system, killing plants and animals. Click here to learn more about acid rain.Let’s imagine that New Zealand was hit by a massive acid rain storm. Acidic rain fell for three days and three nights. When the rain fell, you stayed inside with your friends and family. When it stopped, however, you and your family decided to go for a walk outside. You opened the door and...
On your blog, write a short story about what happened when you opened the door and walked outside after the acid rain storm. To earn full points, you must write a story that is 8 – 10 sentences long.
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Kia ora Nici,
ReplyDeleteIt so sad that majority of air pollution is caused by humans, isn't it? Were you able to find out what the different kinds of air pollution are? I'd love to know a little bit more about it.
Those are some great rainy day activities. What kinds of books do you like to read? I like to read too, or snuggle up in bed and watch a movie. It wasn't raining here last night but I went to see a movie anyway. We watched How to Train Your Dragon 3 - have you seen it? It was SO good! I definitely recommend it if you haven't :)
Wow, what a sad story. I like the way that you've written in the second person; it really draws your reader in. We're so lucky that we live in a clean and healthy environment, and ways to protect it for the future and ensure things like Acid Rain don't happen are constantly being developed. The only thing we have to worry about when it rains is getting the washing in off the line in time :)
Congratulations on completing another lot of activities Nici. You're doing an amazing job! I look forward to reading more posts from you soon. Until then, happy blogging :)
Mikey