Explanation | Plastic Pollution

Why plastic pollution is a problem for our coastlines?

Did you know, each year over 1 million marine mammals are suffering due to the plastic we are wasting? This is not okay! These marine mammals have been suffering from plastic, whether they mistake plastic for food, or even get captured in it, which makes them not able to digest. Plastic has a large effect towards our marine mammals. Plastic is a large, serious issue in our environment! Would you like it if your favourite beach was filled with plastic?

According to ecotricity, scientists have estimated that about 8 million tonnes of plastic have ended up in our oceans every year. The number of plastic waste ending up in oceans could decrease up to a higher number, unless we do something about it! The majority of plastic that lies on the ground ends up in drains, which then leads to our oceans, lakes and rivers. There are New Zealanders out there who have access to facilities for plastic, but why aren’t we doing any better for our environment?

Did you know that plastic takes about 1,000 years just to biodegrade! Plastic doesn’t actually fully degrade, it only disintegrates into smaller particles. About 252,000 tons of plastic are also headed into our landfills every year. A project “Love Your Coast” is one of the projects that are acting now to help have a healthier and cleaner future. Love Your Coast has organised groups of people from around New Zealand to help clean up our oceans and beaches, so our next few generations could be better.

We should act now, so we could have a cleaner future and environment. You could save the lives of marine mammals, by picking up at least a few pieces of rubbish!

Giovanni, Sione, Sakina, RJ, Afa, Karlos, Jayden

LI: To collaboratively structure and write an explanation. This week for writing, we wrote explanations to practise, for our assessments next week. In groups we wrote an explanation about why plastic pollution is a problem for our coastlines and marine mammals. We researched information to add to our explanations, to make it more detailed. Something that I found interesting was that plastic takes 1,000 years to biodegrade and how 252,000 tons of plastic are on landfills every year. 

Student Leader Explanation

                                     Why I Should Be Manaiakalani Leader Of 2020?

What is a leader? I think that a leader is encouraging and helping people with different things. I think I should be Manaiakalani Leader next year, because I think that I have the ability to confidently represent the school with digital presentations. I would like to take this opportunity to become a role model to the younger children. Our 2019 manaiakalani leaders have been role models, but now it’s my turn to become a role model to others and show my digital work.

For the past few years I have been working digitally and have presented many DLOs to the class. I may have been nervous, but every time I have presented, my confidence gets a boost. As a Manaiakalani leader I can show what our school is really like, the best digital school! I am confident and will be even more, if I present more DLO’s to different schools around our Manaiakalani cluster as the 2020 PBS Manaiakalani leader.

Presenting to the cluster might even help the visiting teachers learn about new things. As a leader, I would help younger children and teachers with blog posts and digital learning. Right now, I have published and shared with my global audience 853 blog posts! These are made up of learning we do in school, Summer Learning Journey challenges and photos that show others the work we do in LS2.

I think I would be a great representative and asset of Panmure Bridge School and to other people too. I have made animations, digital drawings, maths games and have helped others digitally, which shows I have a wide range of the digital skills needed to be a Manaiakalani leader.

I think that I’d be a great ambassador to Panmure Bridge and to our Manaiakalani cluster!

Explanation Practice

Why We Should Show Respect, Empathy & Tolerance To Different Cultures?

Do you ever show values to different cultures? Well, it’s important to show respect, tolerance and empathy to other people, whether it’s their culture or their belief. We probably dislike some cultures, but we still have to show these values to other people. What if someone didn’t show any respect, tolerance and empathy to your culture or beliefs? If you don’t show values to others, than you won’t get the same values back. Would you like it if you didn't get the same respect?

Respect!What is respect? Well respect is showing manners to others. We should show respect to these different cultures. It doesn’t matter if you dislike cultures. As long as you respect different cultures, other people will respect yours. Show manners and you’ll receive manners back. If I have a friend and I dislike their culture I am still respectful. Not showing respect can lead to other people being offended and angry. Showing respect is the best policy, just like empathy.

Empathy is understanding other people, like their different cultures. Showing empathy to different cultures can really help you learn more about these cultures and you might even have an interest in them. I understand some of the different cultures, and you should too. This is why we should show empathy too.

What is tolerance? Tolerance is when you accept other people’s likes, cultures and more. Accepting these cultures are also very important. We should accept all the cultures, like we accept our own. We may dislike some cultures, but we should still accept it. What if your culture and beliefs weren’t accepted? If we don’t show tolerance, than we we won’t receive it, with our cultures. To receive tolerance you need to show it first.

This is why we should show these different values. Even if you dislike cultures, at least show respect, empathy and tolerance. Remember if you show these values you’ll receive it as well, from other people!

Explanation:Should NZ Ban Plastic Straws?

Have you ever thought about what a single plastic straw could do to our environment? Well you’ve probably used plastic straws all the time. You probably haven’t realized, that you have been harming creatures using plastic straws!. Well plastic straws can be really harmful to many creatures. Can you guess how many years it takes for plastic straws to biodegrade? Well did you know that plastic straws take about 500 years to break down. These years are more than our lifetime.

If you think about it, there are many micro plastics in oceans around the world, which can poison and effect these poor creatures. On the news, have you seen many creatures getting hurt and being harmed by plastic straws?. If you have, do you ever feel sad, would you ever give up using plastic straws?!. Plastic straws can be really harmful to these creatures. Do you want to see creatures to stop breathing and start bleeding?. This is what plastic straws can really lead to. Creatures swallowing plastic straws can even affect them from digesting food!.

Almost everyone in this world, uses plastic straws while others have done the right thing and stopped using plastic straws. It's time for us to make a big change and ban plastic straws. About 65,000 plastic straws have been laying on the beaches in NZ. Plastic straws lead to a lot of pollution. Between 5 to 10% of plastic straws are being filled up on beaches. Plastic straws are a waste of using, because once you use them, it’ll be thrown out, so why have plastic straws?

Plastic straws are harmful, dangerous and poisonous to these creatures. In a few years there will be more plastic than creatures. Think about all the fish that would be gone in a few more years. How are we going to have fish and chips if there aren't any fish? How are we supposed to eat our favorite dish that includes fish, but there isn’t any fish? This is what plastic straws can really do to these creatures.

This is my opinion of plastic straws! I won’t change my opinion for the fact that these poor and helpless creatures are being hurt. We need to and we should ban plastic straws immediately!, for the safety of these creatures.

Writing Self Evaluation

Why does plastic bags harm our planet?

Did you know that almost everyday people use single use plastic bags? Not only does single use plastic bags harm our environment, it also harms our planet. These can effect a lot of lives around the world, like sea animals and even people. Now that people know about the causes that single use plastic bags do, shops around the world have been banning them and replacing the single use plastic bags with reusable plastic bags.

The reusable bags can be used over and over again whenever we go out to buy grocery.  If we keep up with the reusable plastic bags, we can change our environment where there wouldn’t be any single use plastic bags. Many people around the world have signed the petition to stop single use plastic bags.

It’s amazing that people have been taking matter in their own hands with the single use plastic bags. The single use plastic bags go to three main places, which are oceans, litter and landfills. It really harms the world, because single use plastic bags break down till 400 years. Over 10 billion plastic bags have been used every year in Earth. The sea animals would be in danger with the single use plastic bags around.

When plastic bags go into oceans the sea animals would eat them, because they think that it is jellyfish, but it's really not. In a few years plenty of sea animals would die, because of us using the single use plastic bags. Also when the plastic bags are around the place, people can get cancer. We have to put a stop to this, so that there is no damage done to our planet. What if in a few years there were single use plastic bags all over the place?.

This is why we shouldn’t use single use plastic bags anymore. Let’s keep our world clean by not using single use plastic bags anymore. We need to reduce the level of single use plastic bags, then lives. If everyone bans these plastic bags, then we can change the world.

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This week we got into partners or groups, and checked each others writing samples. We used the PBS writing rubric to see which level we were on. I was with Mele and Marieta for this task. After checking which level we were on, we gave feedback to each other and to our selves, like what we need to work on and what we did good. Above is my writing sample and also my groups feedback and mine. 

Sketchnote|Explanation

This week for writing Ellenora and I created a sketchnote about explanation writing, to show our understandings. First we wrote the information we already knew about explanation writing on a piece of paper. After that we did speed dating to share our ideas. It wasn't exactly speed dating. With our partners there were two lines. We had to share our information about explanation writing to different partners. We only had 1 minute to talk to each partner. After one minute we moved onto the next partner. The next day we created a digital sketchnote to show our understanding about explanation writing. When writing a explanation it is important to have TIIC, which stands for title, introduction, information and conclusion.

Venus fly trap Explanation

LI: To write detail paragraphs. This week for writing we had to write a detailed explanation about Venus fly traps. First we had to make a copy of a Venus fly trap explanation that Mr. Wong did for an example. We had to rewrite the explanation. We had to have more than three sentences in each paragraph. I had to look for sites and watched two videos about venus fly traps. To write a paragraph you need to have a statement, a explanation and a ending. There is a screenshot of an example of pargraphs. Writing a explanation about venus fly traps was kind of hard and easy at the same time. I had a lot of fun writing a full explanation.

18 Sentence Explanation

LI: To write an 18 sentence explanation/LI: To write basic paragraphs. This week for writing we had to write an 18 sentence explanation. First we had to watch a video about a earthworm's digestive system. Once we watched the video we had to make a copy of a explanation planner. Once we made a copy we had to write down what each step of the digestive system does. We had to include the title, the introduction and the conclusion too. The seven steps of a earthworm's digestive system is the mouth, pharynx, oesophagus, crop, gizzard, intestine and the anus. Mr. Wong did the mouth for the explanation planner. Each group had to work together to make sentences for only the pharynx. We had to have two sentences for the introduction, the seven steps and the conclusion, so that our explanation could be a 18 sentence explanation. For each two sentences we had to have a statement and a explanation. 

Here is the link- Explanation Planner & Earthworm's Digestive System 

10 Sentence Explanation

LI: To compare explanations with information reports. This week for writing we had to write a ten sentence explanation about how aluminium cans are made. First Mr. Wong gave did examples of a ten sentence explanation and a information report. The explanation and the information report was about how Venus fly traps work and facts about Venus fly traps. Once Mr. Wong showed us the examples we had to watch a video about how aluminium cans are made .We then had to make a copy of a google doc. We needed to write down the planning.  For the google doc we had to write down a ten sentence explanation about how aluminium cans are made. We needed to include the title, the introduction, the explanation and the conclusion. We did a ten sentence explanation because last week when we did a full explanation about the nervous system, our explanations turned out to be a information report. A explanation and a information report is different from each other because a explanation tells people about how something works and why it happens and a information report tells people about facts about a subject.

Explanation- Nervous System

                                                                         

LI: To plan and write an explanation. LI: To write an introduction and conclusion appropriate for an explanation. This week for writing we had to make an explanation about the nervous system. First we had to make a copy of a google doc that was on the LS1 site. The google doc was our planning for our explanation. For the planning we had to write down the title, the introduction, the explanation and the conclusion. For the introduction, explanation and conclusion we had to answer some questions and write it down. Once we finished doing the planning we had to write the explanation below the planning. For our explanation we could use our structure and language features from last week to help us. This explanation I wrote was hard for me, so I will practise writing explanations to get better.

Explanation- Structure & Language Features

LI: To identify an explanation text through its features. This week for writing we had to make a DLO about the explanation structure and language features. First we had to get into 4 groups of 6 people. Then we had to get 3 pieces of paper. 1 piece of paper had a recount called Friday's Child, the other piece of paper had a explanation called How ants find their way and the other piece of paper had a Venn diagram on. In my group I had Farzana, Matthew, Oscar, Liane and Alayah. We had to read the recount and explanation. Then we had to write down the differences and the similarity on the Venn diagram. We had to have the titles on the Venn diagram. Once we did that we had to sit on the mat and tell Mr. Wong the differences and the similarity. Once we did that we had to make our own DLO and write down the structure & language features of a explanation and we had to write down what explanation means. For the DLO I did a  I decided to add a image for my DLO.