Name: ________________________________________________ Date:______________________ 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
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What I Want to Know
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What I Learned
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You need to water plants
You need to pick up rubbish
You need to have a clean environment
You need to keep bugs in their own habitat
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How do the people at the dump make rubbish cubes?
Why is it good to recycle?
Where does all of the rubbish go?
Do you have to be trained to be a enviro kid?
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That their are a lot of nothing areas at not just their school but also at my own school.
We need plants and trees to get oxygen.
They do need to be taught about being an enviro kid
for three years hikanui school have been working with the Hamilton city council, the University of Waikato,and community groups to turn Hikanui into an enviroschool.
in 1980 native trees were planted at the edge of a large gully on the school grounds
in 1993 all of the land got cleared and a pathway got put in
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Day 2 - Vocab
Find the meanings for the following words.
drainage
the action or process of draining something.
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gully
a ravine formed by the action of water.
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boggy areas
a wet area
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cultivated
refined and well educated
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nursery
refined and well educated
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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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trialing
test (something, especially a new product) to assess its suitability or performance.
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composting
make (vegetable matter or manure) into compost.
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public charities
volunteers helping people with public problems.
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Day 3 - Summarize
Write an explanation of how Hikanui School became an Enviroschool.
By finding lots of different ways to compost,reduce,reuse and recycle.
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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- There are over 20 no where areas in our school
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-In parkvale school their shouldn't be any rubbish but their is.
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-It is really good to reduce,reuse and recycle
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the school should get the green team back together or get some new green team members to add new flowers and vegetables
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