SLJ Day 5

Activity 1

There is a long and rich history of logging in New Zealand. Logging involves cutting down trees. The people who cut them down are called loggers. The trees that they cut down are sold and used to build things (eg. houses), to make products (eg. paper), and to generate (create) heat and power. Over the past two centuries, many of the trees in New Zealand have been cut down by loggers.

Left: NZ native forest Right: A logged forest

Some people like logging because it creates jobs for the loggers and generates money for New Zealand while others are against (opposed to) logging. Many of those opposed are worried that logging will damage the environment. It might also force animals who live in trees (eg. owls) to find new homes.

What do you think about logging?

On your blog tell us whether you think logging should be allowed in New Zealand. Be sure to provide at least two reasons to support your argument.

Logging should be allowed in New Zealand because without woods, we won't have resources, we need wood because we use it for furniture, tables, chair and houses for example but the thing is the animals who live in trees will have to find another home, maybe they should cut down trees where there are no animals that are living there already and everytime they cut down trees, they plant more trees, so we won't run out of trees because trees give us oxygen.  

Activity 2

While it can get quite cold in New Zealand, it rarely drops below freezing (00C). Most of the time the temperature in New Zealand is pretty mild. This is not the case in the tundra. The tundra is an area of land (biome) that is cold, dry and completely treeless. Did you know that the average temperature in the tundra is -280C?

Over the past few years, however, the temperature in the tundra has been rising and the weather has been changing. Let’s imagine that your teacher decides to take you on a class trip to the tundra before the weather changes too much and you aren’t able to go.

On your blog, write a letter to your best friend or a family member telling them about your trip to the tundra. To earn full points your letter must have a greeting (eg. Dear…) followed by 5 – 6 sentences of information about what your experience.

  

Dear Mum and Dad

How are you guys doing there? Are you doing fine? I want to tell you my amazing trip to tundra, It's really nice here, I love the breeze and the landscape and the view! It's like I'm in a painting. We're throwing rocks on the water to see who's rock bounces the most, I'm really bad at this. We're eating our morning tea right now, I'm sharing food with my friends. There were birds looking at us as if they want to eat our food 😅 But I can't give them my food because we're not allowed to feed the birds. Our teacher told us some facts about Tundra. Tundra comes from a Finnish word "tunturia" it means treeless land. I'll tell you more about the rest of my trip later, I gotta take selfies with besties ❤️️ See you later! Miss you already.

Love Skyler

Activity 3

Over the years, scientists have made some surprising discoveries. One of these discoveries is that we have entire cities (e.g. Jakarta, Indonesia and Venice, Italy) that are slowly sinking into the ocean. Scientists believe that, one day, the cities will disappear completely under the water. Yikes!

Some of the residents (people living in the cities) have taken pictures of their neighbourhoods and written stories about their lives in order to make a record of what ‘life was like’ in their city before it disappeared.

Let’s imagine that New Zealand was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean next week (Eek!). Before it sinks you are asked to write a blog post telling people what life was like in New Zealand in 2018.

On your blog, post a description of life in New Zealand in 2018. Please remember that the people who read your post will have never been to New Zealand or even seen a picture so it is your job to ‘paint a picture’ of New Zealand using your words. You can also post pictures if you wish.

New Zealand is a country with over 4 million people, haven't been to New Zealand? Well, get ready to prepare your luggage and your ticket after I tell you about my life here in New Zealand. There are heaps of places you can go here in New Zealand, what I love about New Zealand are the people and the places you can go to and also the weather 😂 . I also made some friends here and I met new people too, my lifestyle here is very different back in the Philippines. We have mufti day in New Zealand unlike America, some schools don't wear uniforms, in the Philippines we don't wear much mufti. If it's your first time here in New Zealand and wants to live here for good and enrol to a new school you should so you can see the differences between your country and New Zealand. People in New Zealand are friendly, that's what I think.

Thanks for reading my blogpost

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