During Social Studies, we have been researching sustainable tourism in NZ and making a lawyer paragraph out of it.

Here’s the lawyer paragraph on sustainable tourism:

Flying Kiwi focuses on making a sustainable environment.

This is important because if we don’t make our environment sustainable, all our plants, oceans, and trees will die out as they help clean the ecosystem and gives us oxygen, and if our environment dies out and becomes polluted, then diseases will eventually come to us and we will eventually die out too because we use the environment’s oxygen that they release, and since it will affect it, then it will gradually come to us as well.

How they are focusing on making their environment more sustainable is they do Environmental awareness training, encouraging others to reduce their use of plastic, and focusing on methods that can make the environment more sustainable, such as saving water, and energy, keeping water clean and not leaving litter in the environment.

Flying Kiwi is a sustainable company, it focuses on many ways they can do to help make the environment more clean and sustainable such as saving up water, and energy, and keeping the water clean.

During Social Studies, we have been learning about sustainable fishing, such as the fishing methods, whether is it sustainable or now, how is it affecting the marine environment, the difference between commercial and recreational fishing and what are some of the ways to make fishing more sustainable.

Here’s the Sustainable Fishing Prezi Presentation link: https://prezi.com/view/cuIPWODpc7zdoQPSIIPq/

During Social Studies, we have been reading a Starfish poem, and what was the message of the poem and the evidence to back up the statement.

Here’s the poem we’ve been reading:

Once upon a time, there was a wise man 

who used to go to the ocean 

to do his writing. 

He had a habit of walking 

on the beach 

before he began his work. 

One day he was walking along 

the shore. 

As he looked down the beach, 

he saw a human 

figure moving like a dancer. 

He smiled to himself to think 

of someone who would 

dance to the day. 

So he began to walk faster 

to catch up. 

As he got closer, he saw 

that it was a young man 

and the young man wasn’t dancing, 

but instead, he was reaching 

down to the shore, 

picking up something 

and very gently throwing it 

into the ocean. 

As he got closer he called out, 

“Good morning! What are you doing?” 

The young man paused, 

looked up and replied, 

“Throwing starfish in the ocean.” 

“I guess I should have asked, 

why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?” 

“The sun is up and the tide is going out. 

And if I don’t throw them in they’ll die.” 

“But, young man, don’t you realize that 

there are miles and miles of beach 

and starfish all along it? 

You can’t possibly make a difference!” 

The young man listened politely. 

Then bent down, picked up another starfish 

and threw it into the sea, 

past the breaking waves and said- 

“It made a difference for that one.”

One of the main messages that the author is trying to give out in the poem is that one may not be able to save all but still makes a difference and change as it says in the quote in the poem,  “It made a difference for that one.” and is also saying that on can tribute a change to the world even if its a little bit as its better than nobody trying.

During Social Studies week 2, we have been making ourselves an article on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and putting out the natural causes, human causes, natural short-term and long-term effects, and human short-term and long-term effects of the Great Pacific Garbage patch and actions and solutions that are being done to help with this problem.

Solutions/Actions:

Solutions and actions that are currently being done to help with this problem are that an organisation called Ocean Cleanup is now using a system named Jenny which is a large-scale cleanup system that can track up to 800 meters long around the ocean through areas of pollution around them as Ocean Cleanup aims to clean about 90% of the ocean plastic pollution and stated that in 5 years time, 50% of the ocean’s pollution will be removed. Solutions and actions that are currently being done to help with this problem are reducing the usage of plastic and reducing the pollution in ships and prohibiting ocean dumping that is now placed in government regulations.

In Social Studies, we have been learning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, what it is, how it is giving negative impacts on the aquatic environment and our world, and what is being done to help this problem.

What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and where is it:

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the biggest of the five offshore being piled up with massive piles of human-created waste gathered in the world’s ocean and is also known as the Pacific Trash Vortex. The plastic usually travels from the West Coast of North America to Japan and then rotates around. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be found throughout the four gyres, but one of the specific ones is halfway between Hawaii and California, the Pacific, and Hawaii and Japan.

How is it impacting our world negatively:

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has caused many negative impacts on our world, each year, it is estimated that between 1.15 to 2.41 million tonnes of plastic are entering the aquatic environment and more than half of all this plastic doesn’t sink into the ocean during the interaction between them, because of all of this, many aquatic life forms, whales, dolphins, fish are getting killed by all of the plastic we use in our lives as they decompose as time goes by, making them almost impossible to be seen, known as microplastics, their chemicals give bad effects towards the oxygen they are breathing in and the ocean will not just be affected, but we will be affected as well as they absorb about 87% of our carbon and between 50%-80% of our oxygen comes from the ocean, so if there is no ocean, then we wouldn’t be here either, and since we eat fish or any other edible sea creatures, we could also possibly be eating the rubbish that could be in them which can make risks in our health.

What is being done to help with this problem:

Things that are currently being done to help with this problem are that the organization Ocean Cleanup is using a system named Jenny which is a large-scale cleanup system that allows to track up to 800 meters long through areas of plastic around them as Ocean Cleanup aims to clean about 90% of the ocean plastic pollution and stated that in 5 years time, 50% of the ocean’s pollution will be removed. Another way that is being done to help with this problem is reducing the usage of plastic and reducing the pollution in ships and prohibiting ocean dumping that is now placed in government regulations.