Exploring the Future of Energy

"I'd like solar panels on my house" Billy

It'd be good to have less fossil fuel stuff" Rebecca

We could have electric cars and solar roads. It could cost a lot of money" Sonia

"It requires energy to make the solar panels in the first place so the panels have to make even more energy than they take to make" Benjamin

"Could you put the solar panels on top of the cars?" Chloe

"Solar panels have to be able to withstand heavy rain, wind, crashes" Mia

"Street lamps could be solar" Hailey

"The harbour bridge lights are solar" Khan

"The solar cars could be driverless" Alex

"Driverless cars wouldn't have crashes" Max M

What do you think about the future of energy?

Dissecting Kutai

Today Going Gold dissected kutai (greenlipped mussels), as part of our prep for the Marine Metre Square Project.

Did you know the Hauraki Gulf used to be completely covered with mussels that filtered the water clear? Unfortunately humans stripped all the mussel beds destroying ecosystems and leaving the water murky. We wondered what could be done to fix this.

It was so fun to dissect the kutai and identitfy the parts. A mussel dinner will never be the same again! Did you know they have a foot? And the beardy bits are actually called byssal threads? They're the part that attaches the mussel to the rocks.

We found some surprise crabs in our mussels and did further research about them. They're called pea crabs. They use that mussel as a place to live and eat its food. Some of the crabs had eggs.

Valentina said its the most fun thing she's done in Enviro so far.

We wonder if we'll find mussels on our MM2 field trip ...