One Thursday morning Blake’s expedition came to my school and we did VR  ( virtual reality) . We were about to learn about the environment, fish, pollution, and marine reserves. First we will start off with fish, we first went into a marine reserve and we saw manta rays, sea lions nemo and dory (clownfish ) ( blue tang ) turtles, sharks, whales, dolphins and sea sponges. Sea sponge is a unique organism they don’t move; they feed off the plankton that float by but pollution in the water stops the sponge because it blocks the holes.

 

The environment has changed over the years, see in these photos one was taken in 2014 and the second and third is 2015. 

 

So what us New Zealanders need to do is spread awareness to stop the  killing of coral reefs around NZ due to pollution habits having been destroyed and fish dying and losing their homes.

Overfishing has become a problem to our oceans because fish are being taken away necessarily  because the limit for fish is 7 per person thats a lot because if u and your 5 friends went fishing and caught 35 fish it’s a lot of fish taken away from that area and there food source is sea urchins and they will reproduce and over populate and they eat seaweed and when the seaweed is gone fish home and no fish for humans to eat and the food chain is broken 

 

In VR we saw a dormant volcano with lots of sea creatures under the sea bed but due to an inlet in the sea floor there’s no seaweed and fish rely on each other for food so the little fish get eaten by the big fish and then the big fish die and small fish eat the dead fish so on and that’s how in harsh conditions fish survive 

 

My favourite part of this journey was seeing the manta ray glide over us and we were able to see its mouth because the manta rays m,outhouse are on the bottom because they filter feed like whales. 

 

Reflection on steam 

 

My three goals this year were to  recognise that something is not working, they may need assistance to redirect learning, identify if they have been successful/learnt the concept of being taught, evaluate assessment data, identify their next steps and what has been achieved. I think I have achieved my goals by helping someone who needed help and when I realised they weren’t understanding what I’ve been telling them so I tried a different approach  and it worked. After a while of helping this person I was able to find a way to get them to learn from there. It was a matter of practice and maintaining it. When we were assigning our own goals some needed more help than others so those who were finished helped others to find their new goals. For steam in term four we needed  to make candles  and a poster to represent the steps and we did that most of us helped by colouring, cutting, printing and glueing and a whole lot more. On some days when my group was dancing and ucalaly  so I was alone Ubut then TK, Jade and Ethan helped me and they helped get all the hard stuff done so they were a lot of help for our group.