We love all the hands on activities in the Tread Lightly Caravan!
After their visit Room Tekau ma Waru GOT THINKING and recorded everything they learnt:
- We saw bees - their eyes have lots of parts
- Rainwater is the only water that should go down the outside drain
- only female bees have a sting
- we learnt how worms are important
- how to make power and what sort of lightbulbs are sustainable - LED
- there's lots of trash in the gutters from people dropping litter and from lunchboxes
- if you put recycling in the recycling bin it can turn into fences
- trees make carbon dioxide into fresh air that we can breath
- try not to let rubbish go down the drain because it's bad for the creatures there.
- use the sun for electricity and light and warmth
- trees make house for birds like kakapo to be safe.
- turn off the lights when you're not using them
- windmills can make electricity
- look after trees because they look after us
Next Room Tekau ma Waru and some questions and wonderings:
1 Is there any trash around the school and in the drains? Fred
2 How much trash do we throw out in a year? Semith
3 Who invented plastic? Fred
4 Why do creatures eat plastic? Louisa
5 How many bins are in the school? Ali
6 Is there trash all around the world? Lydia
7 Why do kereru disperse seeds? Gracie
8 How many bins are around Auckland? Blake
9 How much rubbish did we bring to school today? Louisa
10 Why does plastic go to the ocean? Aliana
11 How many composts do we have in the school?
We EXPLORED to find some answers:
First we went around the school on a rubbish hunt to answer question tahi. We predicted that "I think we'll find two packets" said Semtih.
"We might find old school socks" said Blake.
"We'll find soft plastic wrappers where we eat our lunch - they might fly away" Ali predicted
"We could find plastic water bottles" Veda guessed
"I think we'll find origmani paper" predicted Fred
This is what we found ...
Making Meaning and Connections; let's think about our predictions and what we actually found ...we found way more than two packets! We did actually find a school sock. And we did find soft plastic wrappers from lunches. We found one plastic bottle. We didn't find any origmai paper.
While we were doing this, Ms Driver gave us Pop Starch Compostable Packing from her house and we put it in the worm farm.
Pop Starch Compostable Packing
MAKING
MEANINGS AND CONNECTIONS ... are our actions helping?
8/ 22 Room 18 GEMS had litter free lunches
6/22 Room 18 GEMS had just one litter item
Lastly there were 17 litter items in the Room 18 lunchboxes altogether
SHARE AND SHINE
- we hope we inspire more litterfree lunches for people reading the blog
- we can talk to our parents about litterfree lunches
- we're going to pick up two pieces of rubbish everyday
- we need more compostable packaging like pop starch!!
- we can write letters and ask our favourite snack companies to make compostable packaging ... or the prime minister said Blake
Wow Room 18 you have been busy. I'm glad that you enjoyed the Treadlightly Caravan and I am very pleased with what you learnt and your wonderings. Maybe you can do a lunch audit next term and see if you have improved and have everybody with a litter free lunch. :)
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