Summer Learning Journey : Day 5

DAY 5: Blink and You’ll Miss It

Activity 1: Towering Timbers [4 points]

There is a long and rich history of logging in New Zealand. Logging involves cutting down trees. The people who cut them down are called loggers. The trees that they cut down are sold and used to build things (eg. houses), to make products (eg. paper), and to generate (create) heat and power. Over the past two centuries, many of the trees in New Zealand have been cut down by loggers.

Left: NZ native forest







Right: A logged forest




Why or why not logging should be allowed :

1, Because some animals die of how they cut down the trees because it might be their homes or even worse they need to breath that to live

2, Because there is differnt kinds of birds and there is differnt kinds of trees whoch those differnt birds need to find the right one to live in.

Activity 2: Living on the Edge [4 points]

While it can get quite cold in New Zealand, it rarely drops below freezing (00C). Most of the time the temperature in New Zealand is pretty mild. This is not the case in the tundra. The tundra is an area of land (biome) that is cold, dry and completely treeless. Did you know that the average temperature in the tundra is -280C?

Over the past few years, however, the temperature in the tundra has been rising and the weather has been changing. Let’s imagine that your teacher decides to take you on a class trip to the tundra before the weather changes too much and you aren’t able to go.

On your blog, write a letter to your best friend or a family member telling them about your trip to the tundra. To earn full points your letter must have a greeting (eg. Dear…) followed by 5 – 6 sentences of information about what your experience.

Letter :
Dear Annie ( Best Friend),
My trip to tundra was alright because there is not a lot of tree's but the thing I like most there is the snow because I built a snowman it would've been fun if you came with me but it was still beautiful.But I am still thankful to go because I wasn't about to go because the weather there was too cold and I can just imagine that if I stayed outside for 24 hours I could have been a human Ice block.Also I can't even begin to tell you how GINORMOUS and TALL the mountains are because when I was looking at it I had to tilt my whole head just to look at it and my head began to feel like it was gonna come off from looking at the mountain.

Activity 3: Going, going….gone [10 points]

Over the years, scientists have made some surprising discoveries. One of

these discoveries is that we have entire cities (e.g. Jakarta, Indonesia and Venice, Italy) that are slowly sinking into the ocean. Scientists believe that, one day, the cities will disappear completely under the water. Yikes!

Some of the residents (people living in the cities) have taken pictures of their neighbourhoods and written stories about their lives in order to make a record of what ‘life was like’ in their city before it disappeared.

Let’s imagine that New Zealand was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean next week (Eek!). Before it sinks you are asked to write a blog post telling people what life was like in New Zealand in 2018.

On your blog, post a description of life in New Zealand in 2018. Please remember that the people who read your post will have never been to New Zealand or even seen a picture so it is your job to ‘paint a picture’ of New Zealand using your words. You can also post pictures, if you wish. Be sure to fully attribute the pictures.


New Zealand is a beautiful and free country for me personally New Zealand was the country that saved my life and I am so proud to represent this country and other countries in New Zealand. In New Zealand there different places to eat and watch MOVIES my favourite thing here in New Zealand is that it doesn't matter how big and small you are you still belong here in New Zealand and there is NO ONE in the WORLD to tell you that you do not belong here.