Name:_Caleb_______________________________________________ Date:__25/5/2015____________________ KWL Chart
In the first column, write what you already know about Enviroschools. In the second column, write what you want to know about Enviroschools. After you have completed your research, write what you learned in the third column. What I Know What I Want to Know What I Learned
What I Know
enviroschools are school who help improve their school with plants, new things, and keeping the rubbish where there suppose to go
they turn there nowhere
areas into amazing things like a worm farm, planting things and making compost places
sometime they don’t want to play at their school they want to plant instead
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What I Want to Know
why did they join with the government and council?
How long have they been an enviroschool?
why do they do what they do?
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its not just them that have nothing areas we have them to
they join up with the government and council to help the environment
tell people not to break trees and rip plants out
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Day 2 - Vocab
Find the meanings for the following words.
drainage
Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from an area. Many agricultural soils need
drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies.
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gully
A gully is a landform created by running water, eroding sharply into soil, typically on a hillside. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys, but are metres to tens of metres in depth and width.
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boggy areas
An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
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cultivated
To improve and prepare (land), as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; till.
To loosen or dig soil around (growing plants).
To grow or tend (a plant or crop).
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nursery
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size. They include retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries which supply the needs of institutions or private estates. Some retail and wholesale nurseries sell by mail.
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influence
the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself.
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trialling
test (something, especially a new product) to assess its suitability or performance.
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composting
make vegetable matter into manure into compost
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public charities
the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself
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Day 3 - Summarise
Write an explanation of how Hikanui School became an Enviroschool.
Hukanui school were worried about the environment so they decided to plant some plants to help the environment
Day 4
From the photos and evidence you have collected, create a table of all the problems you have identified we have at Parkvale School. What are the solutions to these problems, do you think?
No where areas
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Rubbish
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Reduce, reuse and recycle
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Greenhouse
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we could plant veggies and plants in some of the no where places.
we can put some maori carvings, flax,and ferns in the garden at behind the cricket net
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we could put rubbish bins in other places like the the field right next to the big trees which are in front of the playgrounds
we could tell the school to put their rubbish in their pockets,lunch box and the vin
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throw all the cardboard,
bottles,paper in the bins at the back of the school
we could put recycling bins around the school
use the bottles and cardboard to make things
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we could grow a whole lot of greens in the greenhouse
and tomatos
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