Starfish Poem

Starfish Poem

(Click the blue words to see the poem)

Whats is the main message of this poem:

The main message of this poem is that even if you do a little it can still impact and have an impact on the world. The poem is between the two people and it is about one person trying to save starfish but they couldn't save all on them just a few starfish.

This can be proved by these few lines in the poem:

You can't possibly make a difference!" 

The young man listened politely. 

Then bent down, picked up another starfish 

and threw it into the sea, 

past the breaking waves and said- 

"It made a difference for that one."

This proves that although he couldn't save all of them he could still have an impact. So a little might be all you can do but it may still help out.

Great pacific Garbage Patch Facts slide

 Hi Guys

Recently in class, we have been looking at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and have been finding heaps of different information about this:

Here is my work and this shows and teaches you about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and how important and serious this issue is.

BYE!

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

 

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you ask? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch or GPGP is a huge rubbish and litter gyre in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. This rubbish gyre is actually the biggest in the world out of the five main rubbish patches. This rubbish patch may never get reversed because it's too big and we can't burn the rubbish because that would cause other issues like air pollution which would be just as bad or even worse. We would never get on top of this issue especially since we still use so much plastic everyday. Imagine if you went to the supermarket and there was no plastic then everything would be different because the packaging of your food items would need to change and that's only a little bit of plastic we use. The Great Pacific Garbage patch is causing the ocean serious harm. The garbage patch currently has heaps of the rubbish we throw out. Sadly the rate that we are going the ocean won't be able to handle it and our fish and sea animals will all die. When we throw out our rubbish, heaps of it will get into the sea and this is kill one hundred thousand sea life each year which is a lot. People need to stop littering and we need to try to get on top of this plastic issue as it may end up causing humans serious harm in no time at all.  What causes these issues? These issues are caused by the use of plastic that people use. This could be from things like Nurdles which humans use to make plastic. These plastics are thrown out and are accumulated in things like the dump. This rubbish is then thrown out and dumped either in a big hole or thrown into the sea.  There are many causes and effects of rubbish in the ocean especially in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is important because this rubbish is killing sea life and the animals in the sea. This is also ruining our planet since the sea soon won't be able to handle our pollution. Humans use so much plastic and that produces more rubbish which gets dug into the land or dumped into the ocean. We now have heaps of people that litter and rubbish is now getting into waterways and is getting taken into the sea from these waterways. What are the effects? The effects are that the rubbish in the ocean is getting caught into gyres like the north pacific gyre. This is causing the ocean to be full of pollutants and its slowing running the ocean and our world. Sea life is dieing from this as they eat the plastics and struggle to survive as they aren't hungry so they don't get enough nutrients. The ocean is now filled with the most rubbish ever and the use of plastic is still very high as our supermarkets, and shops still use heaps of plastic as packaging is mainly plastic as they have a hard time finding an alternative as plastic is so easy for them to get hold of and make. In conclusion the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a very bad place for the environment and things like sea life and maybe in the future even humans. This is a huge problem so we need to use less plastic then slowly get rid of plastic because it could be the end of our planet.

1. Plankton: Plankton is a large collection of organism found in both the water and air

2. Plastic Particles: Fragments of plastic that are smaller than five millimeters these are turned into microplastics

3. Plastic Soup: Pollution in the ocean caused by plastic

4. Fragment: Fragments are pieces of plastic that have broken down into small pieces of plastic 

5. Pacific ocean: This is the largest and deepest ocean it extended from the arctic ocean and the southern ocean.

6. North Pacific Gyres: This is a current that wraps in a circle trapping things that are floating around inside it, this is the biggest in the world, this is home to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

7. Pollutants: This is rubbish, plastic, particles or substances that pollutant the water or air.

8. Plastic Resin Pellets (‘Nurdles’): A small plastic pellet which serves as raw material in the manufacturing of plastic products

9. Accumulate: A gather or build up of plastic 

10. Synthetic: Fibre made in factors that are man made

11. Petroleum: It is a fossil fuel made from dead organism

12. Ingested: Swallowing or absorbing a substance.

13. Environmental catastrophe: 

Hydrogen pop test

 Aim: To show that hydrogen gas is produced when a metal reacts with acid.

Equipment: A test tube, a boiling tube, Busen Burner, wooden splint, a bottle of acid, a piece of metal, safety glasses.

Method:

1. Light your bunsen burner

2. Add a sample of metal to your test tube. Add 3 mls of acid

3. Carefully add the boiling tube above the test tube containing the metal and acid.

4. Hold the test tubes together for a few minutes, allowing time for the inverted boiling tube to fill with gas 

5. When you think the tube is full, your lab partner should light a wooden splint.

6. Carefully but quickly tilt the boiling tube full of gas upwards and insert the burning splint into the mouth of the test tube.

Discussion: The flame with the hydrogen gas made the gas explode into a loud pop followed by smoke. When we have collected the hydrogen gas the metal and the acid heated up and the acid started to boil producing the hydrogen gas.

Conclusion: This proved that hydrogen gas is produced from metal reacting with acid as the hydrogen when met with fire make a loud pop. This shows us that we got hydrogen gas from burning the metal in the acid.

Memory

 Book Title: Memory

Author: Margaret Mahy

Jonny:

Facts: He is Drunk, his sister Janine is dead in an accident, His photo was above the TV

Emotions: Miserable, in denial.

Description: Eye swollen lips swallon.

Jonny is a drunk Character in the book Memory by Margaret Mahy, He is a drunk man and this quote further proves it "I'm not drunk he said to nothing" this proves that he's drunk because he's talking to no one.

John Minto

 Hi Guys!

Today in class we had to task to research a kiwi legend, John Minto.

Here is my work on John Minto:

What did we learn? I learned about who John Minto was and what he did for NZ and the world.

Why did we learn this? We learned this because John Minto is coming to talk to our class.

What question do I have for John Minto? Why did you get arrested and what was it like.

BYE!

HART

Hi Guys! 

Today in class we learned about HART to prep for when John Minto comes in on Friday to talk to us and our class.

HART by Tobey Geldard

What and why are we learning about? We are learning about HART and the impact that they had on racism from their protests against apartheid.

How did we learn it? We learned this via our own research and our ability to find information.

What questions do I have? What was the hardest part of this protest and the protest group?