Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 Day 3 Activity 3: The WWF: World Wildlife Fund

Activity 3: The WWF: World Wildlife Fund [10 points]

In 1961, a number of people came together to start an organisation called the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The main goal of this organisation was/is to protect life on earth. Hundreds of WWF staff work in countries all over the world trying to protect our planet and the animals who live here. To learn more about their amazing work, click on one of the two video links below.

Clip #1: Freshwater Seals

Clip #2: Tigers

tell us:
1) The name of the animal the WWF is working to save.
2) What the WWF is doing to help the animal.

3) What, if any, success they have had protecting the animal.

The WWF is helping the seals by building snow banks. The seals are about to give birth to cubs (baby seals) in a hole that the mothers dig up called a snowbank. without snow, the existence of the seals would not be existing if there were no snow. 

Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 Day 3 Activity 1: Awesome animals

Activity 1: Fantastic Beasts [4 points]
In New Zealand we have many unusual animals. One of the most unusual is the kiwi bird - a bird that does not have wings and can not fly. Pretty strange, eh?! J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, has recently written a new book about strange or unusual animals called ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.’

For this activity, please watch this cool book trailer. Year 7 and Year 8 students in South Auckland, New Zealand helped to make it. Once you have watched the video, use your imagination and create your very own beast. What does your beast look, smell, feel, and sound like?

Post a description of your beast. Use interesting adjectives (describing words) to tell us about your beast.

(Short Description)

Nightmare Beast

A beast that is thirty - four feet tall. He can live up to over 20 million years. He breathes deeply which makes it easier for anyone to hear him. Three big sharp razzing horns sit on his head and on his nose. The beast has a skull for its head and a giant human bulky body. This beast always carries a bat made from the bones of a devil. He has sharp thorns that grow out of his flesh. His heart is pressured by his black blood. His skin is pitch black so it's hard to see him in the dark especially at night, which is why he is called the nightmare beast.

How many different types of sharks are there on earth?

FLY GUY PRESENTS SHARKS

Right now I think I could be able to name 10 kinds of sharks...

A GRAY REEF SHARK

A BLUE SHARK
A LEOPARD SHARK

A SPINY DOGFISH SHARK
A BASKING SHARK
A PREHISTORIC SHARK
A MEGALODON

A BULL SHARK

A GREAT WHITE SHARK

AND A GREENLAND SHARK.

Can you name 5 sharks?

Stripy Tiger

This is my Cinquain poem that I made a couple of weeks ago I really enjoyed it because we were allowed to search different facts about an animal for our cinquain poem.

Have you learned about polar bears?

On Tuesday we were reading a book called My Animal Kingdom All About Polar Bears. My teacher Miss Misela wrote on the white board she wrote polar bears then we had to write some facts all around the polar bear writing. I learned a lot of things from this book I was excited to learn about polar bears and now I have really enjoyed it.

About Turtles

I learned that turtles are big reptiles. Turtles have a very hard shell that protect them like a shield. Many turtles but not all can hide their heads inside their shells when they are scared. Did you know that turtles have existed for over 215 million years ago?