Week 11 - DLO

Week 10 - Math DLO

Plastic Free Chalenge - Create Task

This week, The book choices were the same and still about environment 

The problem in this book is the plastic pollution. 

Question 1. How did this problem occur?            

It occurred by the thrown away plastic.

Question 2. Is this an easy problem to solve?             

It won't be easy to solve because so much of it has been thrown away, there's even an island

made out of plastic, The island is six times the size of new zealand

Question 3. How can you help this situation?             

You can help this situation by not using as much plastic,

recycling old plastic and buying less plastic covered food 

The effects of plastic being poured into the ocean:

It creates “dead zones”  meaning nothing can survive there

60 to 95 percent of the ocean is covered by plastic meaning that most marine mammals would eat the

plastic and die

Fish, Seabirds and Sea Turtles can become entangled in the plastic

If a seabird eats plastic it takes up room in their stomachs, which sometimes can lead to starvation. 

It kills upto 1 million seabirds a year 

Simple ways to stop usage of plastic:

Reduce your single use plastics

Recycle properly

Avoid products that use micro beads 

Support organisations addressing the plastic pollution 

Random facts about the plastic pollution:

5.25 trillion micro plastics are in the ocean

There is at least 269,000 tonnes of plastic is in the ocean 

Plastic is 60 to 95 percent of marine debris 

Everyday at least 8 million pieces of plastic find their way into the ocean

It is believed that more than 90 percent of birds and fish have plastic particles in their stomachs 

Plastic pollution was first discovered in the late 1960's and early 1970's by scientists carrying out

plankton 

Inland Taipan Snake - Information Report

Inland Taipan 

Did you know that one drop of the inland taipans venom can kill 100 adults or 250 thousand mice?
Or that they don't have any environmental dangers? If you like snakes you still probably don't know
much about this snake because it's difficult to find facts about this snake.

If you read this information report you can learn about the physical characteristics, habitat, what they
eat and the only natural predator of the inland taipan!

Physical characteristics  

It's currently the third most poisonous snake because of its defensive physical characteristics 

Some physical characteristics define the color of the inland taipans scales while camo-flashing the
snake into its habitat, for example that sometimes its scales can change color depending on the season.
On the more defensive side of things one drop of its venom can kill 100 adults or 250 thousand mice,  
That's why it's the third most poisonous snake. 

Habitat   

It only lives in certain parts of Australia  

The Habitat Would be the black soil plants in Queensland, south Australia and the northern territory,
It can also live in deep cracks and fissures in dry soil. 

Sometimes in central Australia and the northeast corner of south Australia; Sometimes in new whales
and in rocky outcrops 

What they eat 

 They only eat mammals 

They eat lots of different animals but their main meals are usually long haired plague rats,
They also eat common house mice.

It takes a while to kill the prey because the venom takes 30 to 45 minutes to kill 

The only predator of the inland taipan    

The only predator the the inland taipan kill’s lots of other snakes as well

The king brown snake can kill a bunch of snakes including the inland taipan, They sometimes live in
similar places but wont fight all the time

In concussion The inland taipan isn't aggressive like the saw scaled viper, they don't like fighting
(most of the time), have powerful venom, live mainly in australia, only eat mammals and have only
one predator. What would you do if you met an inland taipan? 

Elephant dung paper

This week the book choices were about the environment,  I chose one about turning Elephant dung into paper because one of my friends suggested the book because she loves Elephants.
Here's the final product of my work.

Elephant Dung Paper

 By Heidi   

The main problem that was solved was that to many trees were getting cut down to make paper, so people in Thailand and countries around that use Elephant Dung Paper as an alternative that also stops deforestation

Question 1. How did the problem occur?     

It occurred because of trees getting cut down  . 

  

Question 2. Is this an easy problem to solve?     

For me, I wouldn't be able to solve it but it seemed simple in the book  . 

  

Question 3. How can you solve the situation?     

You can try to use less paper, recycle more and plant trees and other plants  . 

Effects of deforestation:
The nutrients in the soil is exposed to heat meaning ( Soil erosion destruction)  .
When forests are destroyed water bodies and the water table are affected  .
Climate change  . 
A loss of biodiversity  (  Plant and animal life in the  same habitat, and is usually considered to be important and desirable. )
There's no natural way to change carbon dioxide into oxygen in the atmosphere 
Floods become more common
Soil erosion 
Top soil gets blown away 
Plagues and pestilence are more common because predators get removed from the environment 
Droughts get more common 
Native people get displaced from their environment and can no longer hunt and gather medicine and food 
Loss or culture and tradition  
Animals lose homes 

The main causes of deforestation: 
Natural causes like hurricanes, fires and floods

Humanoid reasons like making paper, collecting wood and creating space
Agricultural Activities


How to slow down the rate of deforestation:
Plant trees when you possibly can 
Use less paper
Don't buy products containing palm oil 
Buy certified wood products 
Buy recycled products
Don't burn firewood excessively 
Consume less meat                       

Wombats - Information Web

This week,   I had to do an information web about Wombats,   orriganaly i thought i had to do it  about poland. After i found out i had to do it about Wombats. Thats why my work isnt the best


i tryed to add bolder colours

10 facts about Poland

This week, My class had the option to choose what book i would do my reading tasks on, My class had the option last week as well.  I chose a book about Polish refugee children,  which was a book made from information that is over 75 years old.

10 facts about Poland -

Create task 

By Heidi 

1. The official name of Poland is The republic of Poland 

2. Poland is the 9th largest country in Europe

3. Seven countries share a border with Poland (Russia,

Lithuania, Belarus, Slovakia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Germany)

4. Poland is famous for creating the myriad Potato 

5. There has been over 500,000 years of human activity

on Poland 

6. Poland has never had a nuclear weapon 

7. The national meal of Poland is bingo stew 

8. The European bison represents Poland 

9. Corn poppies are the national flower of Poland 

10. You can only buy Bison grass vodka, Obwarzanek Krakowski,

Oscypek sheep's cheese, 

Home Army anchor pin, Salt from the Wieliczka Salt Mine, Traditional Polish wood carvings, Tankard emblazoned with a

white eagle and Gdansk amber in Poland 

(you cant buy it any where else in the world)