Year Four Moana Numeracy and Ocean Advocation

 Today Year Four used their numeracy skills to compare what percentage of the our moana and what percentage of our whenua are protected.

We began our lesson by brainstorming all the creatures we knew lived in our local ocean.  Some ideas included:

whales, plankton, crabs, seagulls and more.

Next we used a 10x10 square grid to show how much of our moana and how much of our whenua are protected.  Less than one square was coloured in for the moana grid as only 0.38% of the ocean is protectded.  We shaded in 30 squares on the land grid as 30% of the whenua is protected.  Wow, what a difference!!

Aaria "That makes me feel sad for the ocean"

Huvishka "I feel angry, because I want to save the ocean and people don't know the importance of it."

Elias "I'm sad that we're trying to help the ocean by taking rubbish out and it's making no difference."

Rachael "I'm worried that we might not be able to swim in the ocean because it's littered"

Nova "I'm sad because some people take too many fish  and they are not stopping."

Muller "I'm sad because some people don't care about the plastic they are throwing it out their car window"

"Some of the sea animals might eat the plastic rubbish in the ocean" Roxanne

Donn "I'm disappointed in the people who are trashing the sea.  Make it a law you can't bring rubbish near the sea".

We thought about what we would do if we were in charge:

Asariah "I would make a law to not throw rubbish"

Riana "I would ban plastic"

Tania "I would stop people using plastic and make them use more paper"

Stirling "Make a law that you can't do fishing"

We began to create postcards to send to the Prime Minister. Next week we'll finish them so Ms Daniel can post them to Christopher Luxon. 

We are going to add our postcards to the letters that the Young Ocean Explorers are taking to parliment: We'll send them to PO Box 228, Warkworth 0941 by 8th September. We might win a visit from Riley Hathaway!