First we had to decide what on earth 'Ecology' was. We took some guesses (and some risks with our guesses):
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"what lives in the water" (Hamish)
"creatures and the water, trees and plants" (Ella)
"Organisms are living things. The environment is the trees and the river and things around us. So like we interact with the river by drinking from it and playing in it and we cut down trees to build houses, so those are interactions between us and the environment." (Sophie)
Mrs Rutene reminded us we'd focussed on how people access and make decisions about the Ruamahanga and Swimming Pools during Term 1; and how we've been looking at who we are as Gladstone kids during our dance unit. This helped us to think about the way we as organisms interact with water in our environment:
We answered some questions for the Whaitua Trust about what we know about rivers and water in our area/lives.
Here are the top three things we think are most important for using water for:
Your rivers map look a bit like veins in an arm. I suppose the Ruamahanga is like the lifeblood to the Wairarapa as it shares it's life with the Wairarapa from mountains to the sea. Can you name 4 of the bigger rivers/ streams that feed into the Ruamahanga ?
ReplyDeleteI have a cool DVD about the life in a stream and it's Mauri - it's life force - it's really funny. These kids get turned into fish because they throw litter in the stream. They have to swim upstream I think to find some body so they can turn back into people. But you learn lots about the effect people have on streams. Would you like to borrow it ?