Summer Learning Journey Day 15!

Hey Bloggers, I'm back!

Today is the 15th day and there is only 5 days of the Summer Learning Journey left which is exciting! Because ewhen school starts, they announce the winners! Anways, here is the first activity!

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 have learnt that air pollution can come from natural things but mostly because of us and they include energy use and agriculture. When we burn fossil fuel they let out greenhouse gas. Something else that also makes air pollution is toxic pollutants.

Here is the second activity!

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.

If it rains at school then I play card game with some people and f it rains at home then I usually draw, watch a movie or read a book.

Here is the last activity, hope you enjoy!

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. 

I see that everywhere is flooded and my strawberries that were nice and red were now turning rotten. All the leaves on the trees were falling off and the grass was turning rotten as well! The leaves of the grape tree that we had were now falling off and turning yellow. This all happened because of humans didn't it? I think to myself. Well we couldn't go for a walk. Usually, I can always here birds chirping but now there weren't much that were chirping beautiful songs. Everything had changed...