Year 4 dive deep into looking at our Healthy Moana

 Today Year 4 continued their inquiry into our local moana.  We were concerned with how humans are acting to preserve the precious seas.

Did you know that New Zealand has the 5th largest ocean space on the planet!

We learnt about marine reserves where humans can visit and enjoy the moana, but there is absolutely no taking of anything natural and no feeding of wildlife. Long Bay is our closest reserve.  Have you visited?

We did a bus stop activity in groups. What do we already know? What is the purpose of a marine reserve? What can't you do at a marine reserve?

We saw videos that showed the amazing difference between the seas in reserves and inside our unprotected harbours.

Our last action was to create a chart in our books showing what can and cannot occur in marine reserves.