My K.W.L chart for Hukanui enviroschool

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	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?	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

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.	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.	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.
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).	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.	influence the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself.
trialling test (something, especially a new product) to assess its suitability or performance.	composting make vegetable matter into manure into compost	public charities the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself

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	Rubbish	Reduce, reuse and recycle	Greenhouse
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	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	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	we could grow a whole lot of greens in the greenhouse and tomatos