What we've learnt in extension so far?

 In extension, we've been learn many things about the Earth and its oceans. The extension group learnt three main things, the first thing we'll be talking about is about sustainability. 

I realized that I knew what 'sustainability' was but didn't know a deeper meaning of it. The extension group found out that it was a thing that we do individually. What I mean by this is balancing our usage of natural resources to our needs.

https://mammothmemory.net/geography/geography-vocabulary/tropical-rainforests/sustainability.html

 Well we don't have to completely remove these from our lives, but we need to make an attempt to reduce all of the natural resources we can and to balance it out with our needs. It not only is essential to our environments, but the future generations the earth holds.

BIODIVERYSITY

Biodiversity is the other thing the extension group have learnt about. We learnt that BIODIVERSITY describes the variety of life in earth. Biodiversity refers to every living thing on earth, which can include plants, bacteria, animals, etc. 

Why is BIODIVERSITY important to us? Well biodiversity provides us with many things, they supply oxygen, they clean the air and water, and lots more! If you haven't realized it yet, its sort of a gift from the gods. It protects us, keeps us safe, fight diseases, etc. If we didn't have biodiversity, we'd all be dead. That's why biodiversity is very important towards animals, plants, and more!

https://www.eurosite.org/eurosite-news/the-eu-biodiversity-strategy-2030-getting-to-implementation/

Lastly, MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES.

Ms. West has provided us with information that'll definitely help towards the future. Which is making the right choices. Making the right choices means to be aware of the choices and make sure to choose which one is more suitable to your liking.

We can balance our lives by making the right choices. "How does it benefit us?", well it can not only help you, but it can also help the earth. For example, choosing between water and soft drinks. Instead it goes into a deeper meaning. We have to think about the material, where it comes from, how will it benefit us? Another example is shampoo soap bars that are ecofriendly and shampoo bottles. We have to think deeper, think about where it comes from. The shampoo bottles probably comes from a factory, if they create more of these, it'll pollute the air, whilst maybe the soap bars are made in a safe environment, using packaging materials that reduce our usage of plastic.

This is what I mean by making the right choices, too think more about the things were benefiting of it.

Those are the 3 main things we've learnt in extension, but guess what? We've also been learning about a critically endangered species thats around New Zealand! Check out my research explaining how we can help them survive and some facts about them!

This is what we've been doing in extension these past few weeks!

Controversial Topics - Different Perspectives

 

Today for Extension we were learning about Controversial topics once again. This time we're focusing on why you chose which country to compete for as an athlete. We were trying think of 6 different reasons on why we they chose to compete for that country. What do you think of my 6 reasons? Do you disagree or do you agree? Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

Extension Project 2021

Today for extension we were learning about controversial topics. We somehow incorporated controversial topics into the Olympics. I put myself into a group with Valessa, Nadia and Aye. 

Before researching, we first chose our controversial topics. There were many options and I chose something including drugs and explain how it's unfair and why it's banned. My friend Nadia also chose this topic, so we decided to split it up and focus on different things, but still relating to the topic we've chosen.

Check out Aye's, Nadia's and Valessa's blog to see what they've learnt in their perspective!

11/8/21, self reflection. Today I was focusing on how using drugs in the Olympics was unfair. Honestly it was pretty hard trying to find the correct information, although I found it in the end. The site I found was really informative and had a lot basic facts about the rule.

18/8/21 - To be continued. 

Extension Reflection 26/5/21

 Today for extension, me and Jane... my extension term 2 partner finally got to start our presentation! We both created fabulous and interesting questions about Mars and our different perspectives.

I decided to take the questions " What would it feel like to sweat in a different planet" and "Are there any body parts that get oxygen directly from the air and not from the blood?

Stay tuned for more! Check out Jane's blog for her reflection!

Cultural Barriers - Week 1

 Today for extension, to keep up with our literacy were gonna read poems every extension session and answer questions.

Today we were reading a poem about cultural barriers and we had to answer questions like " What was the main problem. The main problem about this poem was that people are all different, different cultures, different pronunciations, etc.

The poem started off with a girl with a really unique and cool name, Hinewirangi and a girl on the phone who has trouble saying her name. 

We had to answer questions like " What was the main problem?". This was really hard since I'm not very experienced in poems and I don't pay attention the the important details. Sadly I couldn't take a photo of my worksheet since it was copyrighted.

Year 7 & 8 Project ( Watch This Space)

Ms. West gave us a scenario about the earth ending in 12 months. We had to answer questions like... " what are we gonna bring to the planet?". These questions were really challenging as we had to try and be in that persons perspective. 

We opened up our minds and also dig deeper into google and found heaps of solutions and answer to each questions. 

I chose to be in a pair with my friend Jane and our topic for our project was... " What will happen to our bodies when we go to that planet, what will it look like in our pov? ". 

Our topic was basically based on one of the questions in the slides, "What might living in a planet look like" instead, we wanted to go deeper into the questions find out what happens to our bodies, heart, etc. 

Check out Jane's blog and read her perspective of this project! Click here. 

Final Step of the Design Process

 Today for extension, we were working on the final step of the design process for our project, called the 'Streets for everyone project.' This picture below shows all our creative ideas and our amazing join the dots images. Sadly, the picture only contains one of ideas since we finished the other two TODAY.

I'm very glad we did this project because it made me more open minded and more creative. Usually I have plain and old ideas but this project made me open up. 

If you'd like to see more of our images please look in the blogpost "Streets for everyone project". 

Streets For Everyone Project

On the 24th of March, the year seven and eight extension group were able to walk around Glen Innes streets around point england. I was in a group with Norah - Jade and Oalii. We were focusing on different ways to play join the dot and somehow interpret into the streets. 

We all had a lot of fun walking around and finding very specific places to put games & more. 

This project made us open our minds and be creative by  finding ways to make walking home or just randomly walking fun. We had to figure out ideas to make join the dots very unique and fun. Look in our presentation for our ideas!

If you don't understand our ideas, we first thought of doing coloured dots instead of plain old black dots. We also thought of doing street names instead of numbers. Instead of it being, 1, 2, 3, etc... it's actually S, i , m, o, n. We thought our ideas were super creative and fun and we were all proud of it!

I also forgot to mention that we met Toby and Bhav. They're the people who started this fun and amazing project and also helped us on the way. They were a really huge help and I hope we get to meet them again. I hope we get to complete this huge project to make walking fun, as walking is pretty boring... especially by yourself.

This term I learnt how to be more creative and also learnt how to think about others, so elderly people, or maybe younger people can have fun! 

Wind Energy - Highlights

 Today for extension we were learning about the use of wind energy, what is wind energy and etc.

My favourite highlight for today was researching the cons about Wind Turbines, e.g - Wind Turbines can be very damaging to our ecosystems. Researching these cons made be realise that Wind Turbines are terrible for the environment and great for electricity. I used to only think Wind Turbines were good until I found about the cons. 

I also enjoyed presenting our piece of paper since me and my group didn't know what wind energy was, so we just drew a bunch of objects including wind.