Activity 2: Living on the Edge [4 points]
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.
Activity 3: Going, going….gone
Over the years, scientists have made some surprising discoveries. One of these discoveries is that we have entire cities: for example, Jakarta, Indonesia (which I'm visiting in two weeks) and Venice, Italy) 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. Be sure to fully attribute the pictures.
1st image source: NASA
2nd image source: wallock_screen on Twitter
Hi Jaime,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your argument against logging in NZ. Overall, I would agree with you. I think there are dire environmental impacts from logging, particularly with deforestation. I saw this happen in Haiti.
Most of the forest that is logged in NZ is pine forest, which is planted with the intention to be cut down. How do you feel about this? I definitely don't think we should log native NZ timber and destroy the habitat of native NZ birds and animals, however if a forest has been planted with the sole purpose to be cut down for wood, maybe that is ok. I'd be interested to hear what you think.
What a wonderful letter you have written to Augustus, and what a wonderful way to present it!! You are very creative! There is such detail in your description of what is happening in your trip to the tundra - I'm sure people have told you before, but you have a fantastic imagination :) I don't like the cold either so I don't think I'd do very well in the tundra. I'd rather be in Italy!
Thanks for sharing your entertaining blog posts with us!
Laura