Sir Apirana Ngata
The Plastic Free Challenge
LI: find proof
p.2-3 What are statistics? How big the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
p.4 Explain what the Plastic-free challenge is
p.5 How did they get the rest of the school to follow what they were doing?
p.6 What did they do with all the plastic they collected?
p.7 Why was it a big project?
p.8 What does “sustainable” mean?
p.9 How is this a good idea? Explain
Use Google Draw to create a fact file poster about the Great Pacific Garden Patch. You must include at least 5 facts and an image that you have drawn using shapes and lines
Farming Fish
LI: find proof in the text
p.44 How do the people of Togori get food? What do you think they eat if they don’t catch fish?
p.45 What was Uncle Isaiah’s idea and how was he going to make it work?
p.46 Why did they do their work in the morning or evening?
p.47 What did he do to feed the fish and help the fish thrive?
p.48 Was this a good idea? Explain your answer
Trees, Seas and Soil
p.10 Explain what a “carbon sink” is
p.11 Why is carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas?
What are atoms?
What does the author mean by “the number of carbon atoms is finite?”
p.12 Explain the carbon cycle
p.13 Breathing forests
When do plants absorb more carbon dioxide?
photosynthesis, biodiversity
What is one complicating factor?
p.14 Oceans of carbon
How is the ocean a carbon sink?
What is one complicating factor?
p.15 Buried Treasure
How is soil a carbon sink?
Explain decomposition
What does soil with lots of humus do?
What is one complicating factor?
p.16 What can we do to improve the carbon sinks?
p.17 What can we do to help?
Glossary
Sea Science
LI: find proof/ does the author agree or disagree?
p.17 Aotea Great Barrier Island
p.18 What is Marine Debris?
How do scientists predict how much plastic is in the ocean?
What is the Great Pacific Garden Patch?
p.19 List the dangers of debris (4 ideas)
What happens to marine animals that accidentally eat these plastics?
p.20 What did the students from Te Kura o Okiwi and Mulberry Grove School investigate?
p.21 What did the children do once they collected the debris along the beaches and bays?
Why did they use compasses?
p.22 What are 3 interesting facts you found out about the results? Three different schools? Which school found the most and where?
p.23 What did the students do once they finished their investigation?
p.24 Communication to action
Down the Drain.pdfDown the Drain
LI: Use the text to support our answers
p.2-3 What is stormwater and where does it go?
What’s the difference between stormwater and wastewater?
p.4 Where did they place the littatraps? Was this a good idea? Explain your answer
p.5 Explain the process of what they did once they emptied the traps
Why do you think they did this for 12 weeks?
p.6 Why was everyone a bit shocked by the amount of stuff they collected?
Infer why there was more rubbish from the drain outside the cafes than there was outside the houses
Suggest what could be done to stop this from happening
p.7 Were the Drains to Sea plaques a good idea? Explain why or why not
p.8 What is one way to stop sending rubbish to our rivers and oceans?
W2: Kupe and the Giant Wheke
LI: Does the author agree/ disagree?
p.10-11 Who had been stealing the fish and bait from the villagers in Hawaiiki?
p.12 Why didn’t Muturangi want his Wheke to keep away from their fishing lines?
p.13 Why didn’t Te Wheke go for the bait? Predict what might happen next
p.14 What did the incantation do to the Wheke?
p.15 Infer why Kupe waited till dawn to attack Te Wheke
p.16 How did Kupe kill Te Wheke?
p.17 Places named in Aōtearoa