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Reducing Waste In Our Environment!!!

Reducing Our plastic

As part of our learning of the environment, Room seven has been thinking of ways to reduce all the plastic we are using every year. To help us do that we have made our own fabric bags to use instead of plastic bags, and we have been making beeswax lunch wrap which is the other option to glad wrap. We would like to encourage everyone to try and use less plastic in our lunchboxes. 

How to make beeswax wrap:

1) First you have to grate the beeswax.

2) You get two pieces of baking paper and place it underneath and on top of the fabric.

3) Then you have to spread all the beeswax onto the fabric.

4) You then need an iron to melt all the beeswax on the fabric, make sure there is no gaps where there is no beeswax.

5) Finally you need to let it dry for at least 30 seconds.

I really enjoyed making the fabric bag especially for my first time sewing.

        

Where to next? Literacy task

Where To Next?  Connected, Level 4

Turning Old into New

Literacy

Science/Social Science learning goals

We are learning to understand about the environments around us and the negative of

positive impact our actions can have on these environments.

Success criteria;

• identify and explain some of the issues facing our environment today
• identify some of the negative impacts humans are having on the environment
• identify some positive actions people are taking both here and around the world to
• try and help look after our environment.  
• identify some positive actions we can take at school and in our own lives to help our
• environment.
• learn about our local bush track and creek and identify
• some ways in which we can help to look after (kaitiakitanga) these areas.

Reading Learning Goals

-I am learning to use sub-headings to guide me to the main ideas in text.

-I am learning to use illustrations, text boxes, charts and graphs to help

me make inferences so I get more information from the text.

-I am learning to use more than one text, in print or electronic formats, to gather

and check the accuracy of information.

-I am learning to read a wide range of texts (e.g. encyclopaedias, websites, newspapers)

 to gather and check information on a topic.

-I am learning to explain why the author has written a text.

-I am learning to read and understand text that contains academic and topic-specific vocabulary.

Read the text, ‘Turning Old Into New’ and then complete the following activities.

1. Why is recycling a good idea?

Because because we reuse and it doesn't pollute the environment.

But we don’t know where our rubbish/waste goes!!!   

2. How many tons of rubbish do New Zealanders send to landfills every year?

New Zealand sends round about 3 million tons of landfill every year.

3. When rubbish breaks down what gas does it produce?  
4. What environmental problem does this contribute to?

Methane and CO2. This gas makes global warming.

4. Complete this sentence:  Everything we use is made from Earth's natural resources.  

5. Explain where these resources come from;

Wood:Trees, plants and Chemicals.

Metal: Chemicals and rock.

Plastic: Chemicals and oil.

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6) How does oil form? When dinosaurs died, the plants and dinosaurs were covered by mud and sand.

Over millions of years, the mud and sand built up in layers and turned into rock.

The heat and pressure from the rock turn the plant and dinosaur matter into oil and gas.

7) What are some of the things glass can be recycled into?

Countertops, flooring, tile landscaping stones and bricks.

8) What are some of the things cardboard can be recycled into?

Cardboard is used to make chipboard like cereal boxes, paperboard, paper towels,

tissues and printing or writing paper.

9) What can plastic with the number 1 be recycled into?

Number 1 plastics are PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, and they can be turned into soft drink bottles, pillow and sleeping bag fillings, carpet and clothing.

10)  Attach a google drawing here that explains how number 1 plastics can be turned into clothing.

11) What are microfibres and what is the problem with them?

The most common types of microfibers are made from polyesters, polyamides (e.g., nylon, Kevlar, Nomex, trogamide), or a conjugation of polyester, polyamide, and polypropylene. Microfibers are part of a larger problem with microplastics, or small plastic fragments from any source. New research shows that 70% of microplastics pollutants are microfibres.

12) What is Earth Overshoot day? Its how many resources do we use a year.

Glossary - Write what these words mean

Atoms: Smallest particle.

Carded: Related to fibres aligned in the same direction.

Global Warming: An increase in the Earth's average temperature due to increased levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.  

Malt: Barley or other grain that has been used for brewing beer.

Natural resources: Materials found in nature like water,gas and plants.

Synthetic: Something made by people by combining different chemicals.

In class we will be working on projects looking at issues around rubbish and what we can do to help reduce this problem.  

Video Links

NZ Recycling Crises

Diver Filming Swimming Through Plastic

The Pacific Garbage Patch

Infographic - Reducing waste in our lunchboxes

Science/Social Science learning goals

We are learning to understand about the environments around us and the negative of positive
impact our actions can have on these environments.

Success criteria;

• identify some positive actions we can take at school and in our own lives to help
• our environment.

Literacy

Task: Create an infographic showing people how they can reduce their waste in their lunchbox.   

Our co-constructed success criteria:

-Have a strong title/hook

-Use convincing language and images

-Have simple things people can do

-Use images (free to use)

-Use bullet points/ short sharp information

-Use correct punctuation and spelling