A Week in the Life

• Room 13

What I’ve learnt • 17% of children in Australia are suffering from having not much food.

• In Australia climate change and water shortages influence food shortages.

• In 2011 Australia faced a shortage on bananas due to cyclone Yasi in Queensland. Bananas price was higher as the cyclone destroyed 80%

of the banana field or of our bananas in Queensland.

• Nearly 16,000 children in the world die of hunger every day. What I am going to do with the learningI am going to do with the learning is tell my friends and family so they know and I

would try to spread it around the world.

WHAT TO DO TO PREVENT FOOD SHORTAGES….Some ways to prevent food shortages is:

• Look after your soil • Let your cattle in limited areas

• If there are any shortages; humans should transport food to the other countries • be aware in what area you live in e.g. if you live in a dry area and plant food for people,

water your plants regularly.

Litter/ Rubbish

I have learnt about how rubbish can affect the environment and water ways. And what affects leaf litter has on water ways and lakes.

By Camden

Droughts

What I have learned…I learned that droughts occur

and can stay for up 10 years.Australia has had the worst 2

droughts called the Federation Drought and Millennium Drought.

The Murray River was drying out.

What I have learnt by Samson

• I have learnt that lots of countries have been losing their rainforests/ habitats and that it’s not just the trees and habitats getting effected it’s also the animals and plants.

• I’ve also learnt that Shrinking Habitats are getting destroyed to make new land either for housing or work places.

• I have also learnt that lots of supplies such as food are being chopped down with the habitats• Unfortunately some animals do not have a place to stay after their habitats get destroyed• Most habitats that are getting destroyed in Australia are mainly in Queensland

Hi …My topic was how global warming affects natural

disasters…I really enjoyed doing this

project, it was a great experience and I learnt a lot!

Edmodo is one of the websites we

used a lot throughout the

project. It is a website

that we used so we could

communicate with students all

around the world!

Adelaide

Nuclear Energy

Hello! I am Mai. I attend Norwood Primary School in South Australia.

While working on my assignment, I gained knowledge on many aspects of nuclear

energy. Whether or not nuclear energy should become our main source of power

remains a controversial question. However, I learnt how nuclear energy is produced,

and how it is a source of energy. I have also learnt about the advantages and

disadvantages of using nuclear energy, and the worries people have of using this

source because it is considered to be dangerous. I have found out that there are

currently no nuclear reactors (power plants) in Australia, but the South Australian Prime

Minister Jay Weatherill is deciding whether or not to place a nuclear reactor in Australia.

What I have learnt

• I have learnt that lots of medicine, food, meat, water, wood and many more things come from these different habitats.

• I have also learnt that most habitats are getting destroyed mainly in Queensland.

Hi I have enjoyed this experience I have learnt about the situation in Thailand where in the hills they burn so that

mushrooms grow.

I learnt also that in South Australia they charge for plastic bags each plastic bag is 10c.

I learnt that leaf litter can be such a problem to the environment and what it does.

I didn’t know there are a variety types of litter or rubbish.

I learnt there was such thing as animal over-population.

What I've learnt •No-till prevents soil erosion.•Farmers till soil to prepare the seed bed.•Tilled soil is at a greater risk of soil erosion.•Soil erosion can destroy large amounts of farmland.•In the USA just the lower Mississippi river costs more than $100 million a year to fix soil erosion.•Other costs for soil erosion are immeasurable.•In the 19th century in the Great Plains of the United States the dust bowl wind tilled the topsoil and destroyed 65 million hectares of farmland.•Around the world soil-erosion is increasing

This is where I live

What I’ve Learnt • Australia waste about $8 billion in a year. • Wasting food also means wasting water, energy and

resources.• The average Australian household $1,036 is thrown away

each year.

What I am going to do with the learning

• I am going to tell my family and friends about what is happening.

By Daveeda

Hi my name is Baili.

My topic was droughts. I had a lot of fun and learnt a lot throughout this project.

Edmodo

Natural Disasters

What I've learnt

I’ve learnt that eucalyptus trees are being threatened because of a temperature difference of 3.5 degrees.

Global warming is affecting The Great Barrier Reef by the water getting too warm.

The plants and animals are suffering because they are not used to the warm conditions.

What I'm going to do with my learningI can beware of the global warming and its effects on plants.

And I can also tell friends and family to not drive as much to lower the effect of global warming on plants.

Leo

Hi,I’ve enjoyed every bit of this project and I have learnt a lot from all of the news people have given me that relate to the topic group I have been put in. With the information I have found and the information that others have given me, I will use that interesting info when I am sharing information with others.

This is a picture of a red European fox. The red fox is a huge threat to Australia and is causing major issues which is stopping the agriculture business and butcher businesses

Overpopulation of animals

Myhouse

me

What I’ve learnt…What I’m going to do with my learning…

Adelaide (where I live)).

Oly