Collaborative Explanation

LI: To collaboratively structure and write an explanation

Why plastic pollution is a problem for our coastlines

Did you know, each year over 1 million marine mammals are suffering due to the plastic we are wasting? This is not okay! These marine mammals have been suffering from plastic, whether they mistake plastic for food, or even get captured in it, which makes them not able to digest. Plastic has a large effect towards our marine mammals. Plastic is a large, serious issue in our environment! Would you like it if your favourite beach was filled with plastic?

According to ecotricity, scientists have estimated that about 8 million tonnes of plastic have ended up in our oceans every year. The number of plastic waste ending up in oceans could decrease up to a higher number, unless we do something about it! The majority of plastic that lies on the ground ends up in drains, which then leads to our oceans, lakes and rivers. There are New Zealanders out there who have access to facilities for plastic, but why aren’t we doing any better for our environment?

Did you know that plastic takes about 1,000 years just to biodegrade! Plastic doesn’t actually fully degrade, it only disintegrates into smaller particles. About 252,000 tons of plastic are also headed into our landfills every year. A project “Love Your Coast” is one of the projects that are acting now to help have a healthier and cleaner future. Love Your Coast has organised groups of people from around New Zealand to help clean up our oceans and beaches, so our next few generations could be better.

We should act now, so we could have a cleaner future and environment. You could save the lives of marine mammals, by picking up at least a few pieces of rubbish!

Why should become a good school leader

Why should become a good school leader

I'm going to tell you why I should become a good school leader. I should become a good school leader is because I can make people beleive to try their best, achieve goals and become something big.

If I were a school leader I would keep up on work and try my best and if I
make a mistake I would try again and do my best to get the question right
and if it's too difficult I would get someone to help me

If I were a school leader I would use different strategies to figure out the
question and if I were in a group I would collaborate with my group and tell
them my ideas on how to solve the question..

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws

Did you know that all plastic straws are harming sea animals? Well, in my opinion we should ban all plastic straws because they cause pollution and all this from plastic straws, Do we want to hurt these harmless animals?

One reason I think plastic straws should be banned is that they might damage sea animal's digestive system. 500 million plastic straws get thrown away helplessly and kill turtles and other sea life. Because of this, it kills over 100,000 marine life creatures in the sea just because of plastic straws.

My second reason for banning plastic straws is because it has chemicals in it and those chemicals are most likely to harm sea animals (marine life). Plastic straws also break down into microplastic (Small plastics) is also found on land and seagulls eat any kind of garbage and microplastic is one of them, if they eat it they are most likely to pass from there digestive system blockage or eating too much microplastic. All of this is letting us down and those poor little sea creatures eating your rubbish are dying so please don’t throw your rubbish away, This is horrible, this is unbelievable, This is OUTRAGEOUS you don't want that to happen right?

Well, plastic straws could be useful for a good drink without spilling it on you, it would be great if you would be able to water ski but it wouldn’t be ok if you water ski on dead fish. You would be dying to water ski or do anything in water but you can’t because you'll see floating fish EVERYWHERE

Animals are dying, I do not want that to happen and also people are way too lazy to think about life instead they just make things difficult and don’t pick up their plastic straws

Self Evalution

How to take care of our environment

On earth we have lots of food sources and have a great environment … OR DO WE
HAVE A GOOD ENVIRONMENT??. We sometimes throw rubbish on the ground
and some of it goes in the ocean but now we have reusable plastic bags.
Instead of single-use(plastic bags). Plastic bags we have reusable plastic bags to keep our
stuff in it instead of throwing it away SO DON’T THROW IT AWAY.

We are harming the environment but throwing our rubbish everywhere. We have to
convince the people to throw the rubbish in the landfill not in the ocean. “Did you know
over 150 million single use plastic bags get thrown in the landfill and over 380 million
plastic bags end up in the ocean each year”

The landfill is a place where plastic bags or other rubbish so we don’t pollute in our
environment because our environment is special to us. We have to take care of our
environment so we don’t harm the animals that live in the sea. Sometimes we pollute and
sometimes we don’t that doesn’t mean we should keep polluting I think we should pick
up all the rubbish around NZ to stop harming the sea animals in the ocean.

	Punctuation	Vocab	Organisation	Sentence Structure	Structure and Language	Ideas
Self	R5	R4	R5	R5	R3	R5
Buddy	R5	R4	R5	R6	R4	R5

	I put my punctuation in the right places. I have been using some specific words. My ideas do not flow but the reader understands. Most of my ideas tell the reader what he wants to know .My writing matches the text type and My ideas suit the text type of what i’m writing
	Lots of good punctuation, have good ideas and have organized paragraphs but have some mistakes in my work.

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For Writing we made a copy of our writing essay and make it our writing evalution. Then we got into buddy's and check on what we had to work on, I just have to work on how to not make mistakes and check if my writing makes sense about what the topic is. When we got into buddys we both check our work and see what level we were on. I am an R5 on Punctuation, R4 on Vocab, R5 on organization, R5 on sentence structure, R3 on Structure and language and R5 on ideas that I make up and means that i'm creative.

Explaination

for writing we had to write what is in an expalnation and we had to work with a year 8.
There many thing in an explanation like AAAWWUBBIS, FANBOYS and TIIC the three most important things you need in an explanation. We also need language features, Formal language.

Fireworks

L.I To plan and Write an Explanation

In Ls1 Mr Ogilvies groups had to create a firework poster and all the things that are on a firework and write an explanation about the firework