On Tuesday 19th March the Year 5/ 6 Enviro students attended the 'Eye on Nature' one day activity programme. This enviro programme covers a range of topics educating and empowering students to take action for the environment.
The favourite things were...testing the water quality and seeing the pests that they are trying to keep out of New Zealand.
We learnt...
... if the nitrogen in the water is zero that's good for the water.
... that mice are a pest
... how pests affect the environment
... which bugs re pests or pals.
Activities covered were:
1) PESTS
Looking at animals and plants that are a pest in New Zealand.
We ran around playing tag to illustrate the problem of how moth pod spreads.
We can help by: telling more people about pests and taking part in trying to remove them.
2) BUGS: PEST or PAL?
During this session we learnt about a number of bugs that New Zealand biosecurity is trying very hard to keep out of our country as they are extremely damaging to our fruits and vegetable crops.
We can help by: looking carefully at bugs in our Garden to Table sessions to see if creatures are friends or not.
3) RUBBISH SORTING (TRAFFIC LIGHT BINS)
This was a fantastic refresher for us as it matched our school bin system perfectly. We played a fun relay game running to put rubbish into little coloured bins; red, yellow or green.
We can help by: making sure we put our rubbish in the correct bins and educating others to do this too!
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4) WATER TESTING
During this final activity we were scientists! We did a number of experiments to test the water quality and decide how clean or polluted it was - we came out with a score of 90% clean.
We can help by: keeping our water ways clean and making sure the outside drain has only RAIN go down it! Pick up rubbish you see at school or anywhere near a drain.
