Year Six - What is an estuary?

 

Get Thinking - What is a estuary?

Vienaa "Like a lake and a beach close together"

Vida "The water flows and animals live there"

Blake "There's no waves and it's calm"

Toby "It's some sort of water way"

Explore - We explored what an estuary is with reading this slide deck from DOC https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IDYU3SVQm20oeH1TgMS7hC9BxXX8lofLY5x_2Dw6HiM/edit#slide=id.g2303cdbe46_0_0 

What do we see at the Roatary Walkway alongside the Tamaki Estuary?

"Baby fish and birds"

Alexander "I saw crabs"

Blake "I've seen eels there"

Gracie "Lots of mud"

Vida "Trees"

Toby "weird water trees like mangroves"

Hazel "I've seen herons; birds with long legs"

Cody "There's a lot of kelp dried on the shore"

We created charts in our book with the headings "I know...", "I wonder...", "My experiences..." and "How I can find out more"  We'll use these to set the course for our Estuary Inquiry. We used field guides to illustrate our charts. 

Next time we'll read about the estuary wildlife and discover why they are important.