Beach+boys

Our 8 open questions: on the beach gets a hundred dollar fine, they should get a person to patrol beach || The best place to start is with yourself at home. you can reduce your rubbish at home and at school by recycling paper, glass, cans, and plastic containers. you can also compost your food scraps and find other ways to recycle rubbish. The main way the beaches in howick get polluted is from the storm water drains. these drains collect water of the streets. A lot of other rubbish falls into these drains like ciggaretes, oil from cars, and lots of other rubbish. all of that rubbish goes goes into the stormwater drains flows into the sea. This makes it very important to recycle our rubbish and keep our stormwater drains clean. If there is less rubbish on the street there will be less in the sea. we also have to be careful not to wash our cars on our driveways because all the dirt and chemicals get washed into the stormwater drains which ends up in the sea and on the beaches. When you wash your cars do it on grass or at public carwash. As most of the storm water drains wash inot the sea it mekes it very important to take care of them to help marine pollution. || Jack || people that does not put their rubbish in the bin and just leave it on the beach were they were || Pollutants, such as hydrocarbons, adversely affect production of plankton, which is the first link of the ocean's food chain and the main diet of some cetaceans. Dolphins and seals have been washed up in large numbers on beaches world-wide and after autopsies, infectious bacteria and high concentrations of hydrocarbons have been indicated as the cause of death. Another percentage of pollution deaths is through the ingestion and/or strangulation from plastics and other foreign objects.Rubbish not placed in bins can often end up in the ocean. Not only does it look horrible, but it is also dangerous to marine animals. Plastic bags, containers, fishing line and 6-pack holders end up entangled around dolphins, seals, sharks and birds to name a few. Animals caught or tangled in litter either strangle themselves, starve to death or are unable to move enough to survive. || Hennie || -aluminium cans up to 80 years -plastic rings up to 100 years -glass bottles can take up to a million years. -thin plastic 5 years. || Trent || dumped on beaches would be plastic and glass, because when you are on the beach you would want something to drink and to eat, and most of the food that you eat comes in plastic holders/ bags and when you are thirsty you drink something and most of the drinks come in cans or glass bottles || Research has shown that the most common type of rubbish is plastic, the people that did the research went on a beach and did there research on a polluted beach, they found that plastic is the most common rubbish on the beach, Research say that most of the pieces of plastic was bigger then a centemeter. They also showed that animals such as fish, and dolphins died because they thought that the pieces of plastic was there prey. They said that some of the thing they found was unusual, one thing they found was a full length foot and leg made of rubber. They found an average of 1,913 pieces of litter per km of beach, with the total haul weighing 11.6 tonnes. The found a leatherback turtle that washed ashore in Scotland in the 1990s showed that it appeared to have died as a result of starvation caused by plastic and metal litter blocking its digestive system. || Hennie ||
 * **Questions** || **Hypothesis** || **Answers to our questions** || **Who is doing it?** ||
 * Why do people dump rubbish on the beach when the know that they not allowed? || Because when you are lying on the beach relaxing or having a picnic you would not want get up and put it into a bin so instead they just dump it in the sand ignoring all the signs telling them not and when someone sees someone else do it they do it as well knowing that its not just them. || People do not respect the beaches and do not have any regard for them. So they just dump their rubbish scraps anywhere they feal like with no regard for the beach or people that like it clean and are reasponsible for keeping them clean.They do this even though they know it is wrong because they do not care about the signs, the people that want it clean and because there is no fine against people who litter on the beach so people just don't listen. || Scott ||
 * How can we prevent littering on the beach? || Take the litter home with you, and people that litter
 * What does the rubbish on the beach do to the environment? || It kills the sea animals and pollutes their habitat. || Storm water drains all run into the sea. In the water of those drains there is nasty bacteria from domestic animals and other natural sources. This bacteria can put all the sea life in great danger because it kills all there sources of food. Poisons in storm water drains can be very deadly to animals. A scientist said "If you drop your litter, you could be responsible for the deathes of turtles, dolphins and seabirds worldwide. Plastic is the greatest hazzard to marine creatures. Fish can easily choke on plastic. Pollunants such as heavy metals (copper, zinc and lead) the run of roads etc can be fatal to marine creatures. || Jack ||
 * What happens to the rubbish when it gets dumped? || All the rubbish flows into the water and floats throught the sea it then gets stuck in reefs and occasionally poison the animals habbitats depending on what kind of rubbish it is. The fish and other sea animals often get stuck in the rubbish and die and if the rubbish does not sink or get stuck in the reefs it will usually end up on another beach. || Rubbish like plastic wrapers and bags usually travel out to sea and animals like fish mistaken it for food and take a bite the rubbish then kills them. Rubbish like cans and nets usually travel out to sea and the fish and other sealife get caught in it. Other types of rubbis like oil, petrol and sewage usually travel out to sea via pipelines and boats and poison any sealife that comes into contact with it || Scott ||
 * What effect does rubbish have on sea life and why? || I think there are hundreds and thousands of animals that die per year because of
 * What beach in our community is the most polluted and why? || Bucklands beach because of all the ferrys and boats that go up and down the river. ||  ||~   ||~   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ Bucklands Beach ||~ Good ||  || **Safe ** ||
 * ~ Eastern Beach ||~ Good ||  || **Safe ** ||
 * ~ Howick Beach ||~ Fair || Generally satisfactory for swimming, though there are many potential sources of faecal material. Caution should be taken during periods of high rainfall, and swimming avoided if water is discoloured. Sites are monitored weekly and warning signs erected if water quality deteriorates. || **Safe ** ||
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 * ~ Mellons Bay Beach ||~ Poor || Swimming should normally be avoided. Permanent warning signs //may// be erected at these sites. || **Safe ** ||
 * ~ Cockle Bay Beach ||~ Poor || As above || **Safe ** ||
 * ~ Mangere Bridge Beach ||~ Very Poor || Avoid swimming, as there are direct discharges of faecal material. Permanent signage will be erected at the beach stating that swimming is not recommended. || **Unsafe **: Permanent warning signs ||
 * ~ Kawakawa Bay Beach ||~ Very Poor || As above || **Unsafe **: Permanent warning signs ||
 * **Safe ** || : || water quality is within Ministry of Health Guidelines ||
 * **Retest ** || : || a repeat sample is being tested to check that the water is safe ||
 * **Unsafe ** || : || water quality is outside Ministry of Health Guidelines and warning signs are in place until retesting shows it is safe to swim again ||  || Trent ||
 * How long does it take for rubbish to break down and why? || Depending on what type of rubbish it could take 20 to 200 years to break down. || -scrap metal 50 years depending on the type of metal.
 * How long does it take for rubbish to break down and why? || Depending on what type of rubbish it could take 20 to 200 years to break down. || -scrap metal 50 years depending on the type of metal.
 * What types of rubbish is mostly dumped on the beach and why? || The most common rubbish that is


 * Our Action Plan!!**

We want to go to the following beaches and give it a good clean to prevent pollution and save the sea life. We think what we are going to do will help the community become a better place to live. This is the following beaches that we want to go to.


 * Howick Beach
 * Cockle Bay
 * Eastern Beach
 * Bucklands Beach
 * Mellons Bay
 * Kawakawa Bay Beach
 * Mangere Bridge Beach

The beaches that we highlighted are the ones that we have selected to clean up

What we need to bring to the beach:


 * Rubber Gloves
 * Bags-4
 * Old clothes in a bag
 * food and drink

**__ Our findings at the beach __** When we went to howick beach we found that the beach wasn't actually that messy. We found car parts, bottles, glass, plastic and lots of old junk. Howick beach was no way near as dirty as Bucklands beach. At bucklands we found bag fulls of bottle caps, straws old plastic and food rappings. We found hundreds of bottle caps. It was very good that we went to those beaches cause we would have saved lots of marine life and pollution. We all feel very good about what we did. We all think we did a very good job to clean up two local beaches. We completed what we set out to do. We are all very pleased with the results we got because we left the two beaches very clean. We all think we did an excellent job of helping the community out. We would have saved the lives of many marine animals.
 * __What we did and how we feel__**

== =Daily reflection=

|| **Jack** || **Hennie** || <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 218, 0)">**Scott** || <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 218, 0)">**Trent** || **Self Reflections** But after all everyone did there bit and we done what we meant to do. ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 218, 0)">**Date**
 * Write the date here || Type your daily reflections here || Type your daily reflections here || Type your daily reflections here || Type your daily reflections here ||
 * 16.9.08 || Today I did absolutely nothing because I was at volleyball. I'm glad Hennie has learnt how to use a ruler as I was getting sick of ruling all his lines for him. || Today I bought a new Rooler and I tried it out to see if it worked. It did! || Today I helped Hennie use his new ruler. Now he's very confident using it and likes to rule lots of lines. Some of the lines are even straight. || Today I taught Hennie how to use a pencil so that he could learn how to use his new ruler. He's making good progress now he knows which end to hold it. ||
 * 17.9.08 || Today I did both my questions || Today I did not do much, I just research my questions but not answer it. || Today I finished hypothesising my questions and answering them. || Today i did not do much I only did one question. ||
 * 18.9.08 ||  || Today I answered both of my questions and I found out heaps of information about our topic. ||   || Today I finished both of my questions. ||
 * 22.09.08 || Today me and Scott filled out RAMS sheet and fixed up the page. || Today I did my question again thank to someone not naming any name (Trent). || Today I filled out the RAMS sheet for Mrs Parkinson to sign. And I fixed up the page. || Today I was away so I didn't do anything. ||
 * 25.09.08 || Today I told Hennie and Trent what to type up on the computer. I also made a list of things that we have to bring with us to the beach. || Today I typed up our group reflection and help the others with the list of things that we have to bring tomorrow when we go to the beach. || Today I told Hennie and Trent what to type up on the computer. I told Trent and Jack what to write for tomorrows activities. || Today I typed up our group reflection with Hennie, And after that I helped Jack with getting Ideas for the list that we have to make for tomorrow. ||
 * 26.09.08 || Today our group went out to bucklands beach and howick beach to clean up the beaches. || Today me and the boys went out to clean the beach, we went to howick beach and bucklands beach. || Today we all went to the beach to pick up rubbish. We picked up four bags of rubbish from Howick beach and Bucklands Beach. || Today our group went out to bucklands beach and howick beach to clean up the beaches. ||
 * 15.10.08 || Today I wrote up the results to our findings at the beach. And I put on the photos of the trip. || Today I, Trent and Scott did not do anything || Today we brainstormed the things that we still needed to do. || Today I did nothing! ||
 * 16.10.08 ||  ||   || Today we filled in our final self reflection. ||   ||
 * Trent || Jack || Scott || Hennie ||
 * I think we made a good difference to the community. We picked up 4 bags of rubbish which I think is very good. We left the beaches very clean. By doing this we helped stop the beaches and water becoming polluted. As a group I think we worked pretty good, we discussed what we were going to do each night. We worked hard to make our wiki as good as we could. || I think we made a very big difference to the community because we helped stop beaches beaches becoming polluted and dirty. I feel good about what we did. We picked up 4 bags of rubbish and then left the beaches very clean with no rubbish on them. We worked very well as a group cause we shared out the tasks evenly and we all worked hard on the wiki to get the job done. We chose a good problem in our community that needed some help. We chose our topic cause it is a big issue in our community. || After choosing to help clean up the beaches and save our sealife I think we all worked really well together and made a really big difference to the community. After picking up four full bags of rubbish I think we have saved hundreds of sea animals and made our beaches a lot more safer for children and made them more presentable. I think that we have all worked really hard on our wikispaces and presented everything really well. || I think we made a good difference to the community by cleaning up some of the dirty beaches that we have. I personnaly feel great by what we did. When we first got to the beaches it looked really dirty, but when we where done at the beach it was nice and clean, I feel that we did a good job because we filled up 4 hole bags. It is supprising on some of the thing that we found on the beach e.g. Car parts, bottles, class bottles, Bottle lids/tops.

**__Peer Reflections__**
 * **__Names__** || Hennie || Jack || Scott || Trent ||
 * Trent || Hennie did a very good job of helping the community. He helped in class alot and always did what he need to do. He always did his reflections as well which was really good. His answers to his questions were very good so he should feel very proud of what he did. || Jack always did his work and never missed a reflection or anything which he should be very proud of. He contrubuted to the group alot and had great answers to his questions. He should be very proud of what he did to help the community. || Scott was always doing his work and everything he did was very good so he should be proud of that. he mostly filled out his daily reflection which was very good and over all he did a great job. ||  ||
 * Jack || Hennie did a very good job of helping out the community he should feel very good about what he has done. He helped out the group heaps by doing a lot of hard work on the wiki. He worked very hard to clean up the beach. || - || Scott did an awesome job of helping the community we live in. He contributed a lot to the group by going on the wiki a lot and updating the work and doing things that needed to tbe done. || Trent went on the wiki a lot and worked hard on the wiki. (cough cough). He did an awesome job to help out the community. He should feel proud of what he did. ||
 * Scott || Hennie worked really hard on this task. He updated the wiki lots and filled in his reflection everyday. You should be proud of everything you have done for the community. || Jack did a realy good job on our wiki and did a lot of the work. He worked really hard when we were picking up the rubbish and should be really proud of the difference he made in the community. || - || Trent did a lot of research in his questions which helped us decide what beaches we would go to pick up rubbish. You should be proud of your work. ||
 * Hennie || - || Jack worked really hard on completing his questions, and cleaning up the beaches. He should feel really good because he has done a awesome job at polluting the beach. Great job || Scott worked really hard on his inquiry, he put a lot thinking and depth into his answers. (the two of them) you should feel proud that you have done something good for a change. || Well done Trent. you worked really hard on completing your answers on time and you answered them in detail. I am sure that you feel because you made a positive change in our community. Great job Trent. Keep it up. ||

=**Daily Group reflection (Write what progress you've made and how things are going)**=

Today we made our permission slip that will allow us to go and do our inquiry topic, we also got all of our question answered so that is a good thing, Next step we have to take is getting there and getting the materials that we need. ||
 * || Date and reflection:
 * 25.9.08 || We have been making very good progress and working well as a group. We have organized all the things that we need to bring and do at the beach and we finished all our questions, overall we are working well as a group and we are enjoying doing this activity. ||
 * 26.09.08 || Today we all went to the beaches to clean them up. We worked well together and we got on well together. We were all proud of what we did to help the community. ||


 * **Date** || **Mr Read's feedback** || **Student response** ||
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25/10 || ======<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 167, 0)">**I'm really please to see a lot of progress made on your wiki. It's good to see so many of the answers to your questions posted. Trent and Hennie, you still need to do you daily reflection. We need to talk about your action plan and what you will do to make a difference.** ======

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 * <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 150, 0)">It's good to see some progress being made with your task, especially with the answers to your questions starting to be posted. Please ensure that you write your answers using as many of your own words as possible. I'm disappointed that Jack, Trent and Scott didn't fill out their daily reflections....I'm sure Jack would have if he wasn't sick. Please add more deatil to your action plan.

Well done for organising your permission slip. That needs to be returned to me as soon as possible.

Thank you for the interesting information about the pollution levels of the Eastern beaches. I found that very interesting to read. **

<span style="background-color: rgb(180, 255, 0)">Hey Beach Boys, your answers to your questions have really improved. Well done for making the changes and posting the answers that remained to be finished. Well done to Jack and Hennie for ensuring your daily reflections have been done. Come on Trent and Scott....it's important you do this. ALSO your group daily reflection hasn't been getting done. Please do that. On Friday please take lots of photos so that you can post them on your Wiki and use them for some web2 slideshows. (Also to prove to me that you actually went to the beach and didn't just go to KFC for a Hennie burger.) A Hennie burger is 95% fat ridden with 1000's of harmful additives..........but Hennie loves them.

Well done beach boys on doing your reflections, peer reflections and finishing off bits and pieces. Well done for adding the photos. I'm looking forward to your Inquiry presentations.

<span style="background-color: rgb(247, 255, 0)">**I was really impressed with the way you did a very good job on each others peer reflections. You wrote specific and encouraging feedback about each others contributions.

It was great to see the photos you posted on your Wiki. A picture paints a thousand words as they say.I also enjoyed reading your reflective statements. By picking up all that rubbish you have made a small but significant contribution to the community you live in.

The thing that I most want you to get out of this task is the realisation that you can make a positive difference to others. As the future leaders of this country I'd like you to serve others in some way so that you can leave your community (whatever that community may be) a better place. All of you boys are leaders in your own right. You don't have to be a House Captain like Hennie to be considered a leader. Each of you is a leader when you take the lead and do something perhaps that others might not do. E.g Clean the local beaches without being paid or asked to.

You've worked well together and produced some fine work. I leaned a lot from your presentation, especially about which local beaches are polluted and why. I hope you've enjoyed this Inquiry unit too.**

==<span style="background-color: rgb(247, 255, 0)"> **Overall grade. A 5000 house points each** == || <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 150, 0)"> ||