Design Process

 

Water Experiment DLO

 

Why Do Scientists Check The Temperature In Our Waterways?

 Why Do Scientists Check The Temperature In Our Waterways? 

Temperature affects water in quite a few ways. Testing water is important because the chemicals could poison animals, and affect the food chain if the animals are in the water and are not used to the temperature. There is equipment testing for the waterways. 

Water temperature can affect the food chain. The water temperature can affect the food chain by killing animals who live in water if the animals are not used to a warm temperature or a cold temperature. For example if a fish was living in a river and was used to living at a good temperature for the fish and the water temperature changed to a really hot temperature really hot for the fish, the fish would not be used to the change and would die. If fish die other animals who eat fish will die and the food chain will break. This is why testing the water is very important.

Testing can help stop the food chain from dying. Scientists test for highly toxic chemicals, biocides, potassium etc.Too many chemicals can lead to increase in primary productivity which decreases water quality. Water can be poisoned so it is important so scientists check them for bad chemicals. This is the chemica;s in the water and what happens when there are too many of them. 

For the equipment used for testing the waterways. Scientists use handheld and electronic meters which are used for testing parameters such as ph. Scientists also have two kits which include bacteria and chemicals. The electronic equipment is used to check if the water is safe or not. The person who is testing has to use the appropriate equipment for testing the equipment. This is the equipment used for  testing the waterways. 

Therefore, this is why it is important to test the water temperature. The equipment is very important too and you have to know how to test the water as well. So maybe you could be a water tester one day to help the food chain and you will know the equipment and what chemicals there are too. 

By Indi, Olive and Mylah

Bibliography: Water, water 2

He Kakano

Malala Yousafzai

My Digital Footprint DLO

What did you do? What we had to do is make these digital footprints.

Why did we do the digital footprint?We did these digital footprints to see what we have been on . What did we learn from this? To see what we had been on are devices .

3D shape cube

WALT: make nets and models of 3D shapes.

DLO popstick 3D shapes

Figurative Language.

Word Collector By: Mylah

WALT:  We are learning to develop a rich vocabulary by collecting words and using these interesting words in our writing.

Learning outcome: To record the experiences of West Coast children from the past 100 years in order to create a History of West Coast people during times of difficulty and challenge - this will be turned into a book to be kept in local museums and at Shantytown.

My great nana Brown (nee Pauline Cairney) was born in Greymouth in 1941. At the age of 10 months old she contracted polio during the poliomyelitis epidemic that swept throughout the world. The virus affected her muscles on her left side of her face causing her mouth to move halfway up the side of her face. Her mother (Emma Cairney) sat with her day and night feeding her condensed milk, and massaging her little face. By doing this she survived and eventually her mouth moved back into place leaving just a slight slant. She was one of the luckier ones as many other children either died or were left paralyzed. I am thankful that nowadays there are vaccines that can stop you from getting polio.

By Mylah Neilson

Karoro School

Year 7

Age 11

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Leaf Art

Visual Arts

DLO-He Kākano - Te Reo Māori Learning Words for Whanau and Kararehe/Animals