<p class="ql-block">The students have formed deep interests and understanding of this unit. We have dived into a vast array of topics, starting with human impacts on the planet, what we can do to help save our planet, the different materials (human made and natural) 🌎. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 22px;"><i>Looking at consequences as a result of human actions:</i></b></p><ol class="ql-block"><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>water pollution</i></b></li><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>plastic in the ocean</i></b></li><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>air pollution </i></b></li><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>deforestation </i></b></li><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>landfill </i></b></li><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>rubbish in the ocean</i></b></li><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>wildfires</i></b></li><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>drought</i></b></li><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>flood</i></b></li><li style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Global warming</i></b></li></ol><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block">Students’s of K2B also have been busy learning about the different materials that exist on our planet…</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><ul class="ql-block"><li>paper</li><li>glass</li><li>metal</li><li>wood</li><li>plastic</li><li>rubber</li><li>cardboard </li></ul><p class="ql-block">Before then further developing their knowledge and understanding by sorting these materials into human made or natural materials. </p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 20px;"><i>Let’s take a look…</i></b></p> <p class="ql-block">So, how can we do our part and help the planet? We begin by looking into our own homes and daily lives 🏡</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Student’s were given the task to differentiate images into whether they were good or bad for the environment. </p><p class="ql-block">Good for the environment:</p><ul class="ql-block"><li>walking to school 🦶🏼</li><li>turning off the lights 💡</li><li>electric cars⚡️🚗</li><li>turn off the taps when brushing your teeth 🪥</li><li>using both sides of the paper 📝</li><li>reusing plastic bags🛍️</li></ul><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Bad for the environment:</p><ul class="ql-block"><li>gas cars 🔥🚗</li><li>wasting paper ❌📃</li><li>long showers ⏰🚿</li><li>Wasting food 🗑️🥪</li><li> Not recycling ❌♻️</li></ul><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block">Now that we have learned about the different human impacts, the students then proceeded to learn about the how we can help the environment and save the planet 🌎. These are the students thoughts and ideas on how to help 👏🏼</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block">Such beautiful and well thought out drawings from the students 🌲🌳</p> <p class="ql-block">K2B have made great progress in this unit, and it has been a pleasure watching their interest grow more and more each day!</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block" style="text-align: center;"><b>Let’s continue to teach each other to reduce, reuse and recycle! </b></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p>