WEEK 3: Up, Up and Away
DAY 1: A Heated Debate
Activity 1: Togs or Trackies? [4 points]
New Zealand is a pretty lovely place to live, isn’t it? Apparently, New Zealand (NZ) is also a pretty lovely place to visit. In 2017 approximately 2-3 million people came to visit NZ as tourists. Some of them chose to come in the middle of our summer, while others braved it and came in the middle of winter! When do you think is the best time of year (season) to visit NZ?
If you would like some help making a decision, feel free to read the Go New Zealand website. It has lots of information about the seasons in NZ!
I, personally, encourage my friends and family from overseas to come and visit NZ in early spring. The weather is usually warm and dry and the tourist attractions, beaches and holiday spots are less busy than they are in the middle of summer.
On your blog, tell us what time of year you think is best for tourists for come and visit. Be sure to share at least three things that tourists could do while they were here in NZ.
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I choose spring.
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Activity 2: You are my Sunshine [4 points]
People in New Zealand love spending time outdoors. Unfortunately, the sun is very powerful and the rates of skin cancer are incredibly high in New Zealand. In fact, they are higher than anywhere else in the entire world! To protect ourselves against skin cancer, we need to be careful about how much time we spend in the sun. We have to be ‘Sunsmart.’ Read the Sunsmart website.
On your blog, list five different things that we can do to protect ourselves from the sun this summer!
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Image Attribution:
Hat: Click Me
Sunscreen: Click Me
Glasses: Click Me
Shade: Click Me
Top: Click Me
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Activity 3: Burning Up… [15 points]
While it can get hot in New Zealand, especially in the middle of summer, it gets even hotter in places like Dallol (Ethiopia), Dasht-e Loot (Iran), Tirat Zvi (Israel), Kabili (Tunisia) and Bandar-e Mahshahr (Iran).
The hottest temperature on record in each place is: Dallol: 41oC; Dasht-e Loot: 71oC; Tirat Zvi: 54oC; Kabili: 55oC; Bandar-e Mahshahr: 51oC. Crazy ‘eh?!
For this activity, you are asked to use this information to create a graph. The graph should have a title along with the names of each city and their hottest recorded temperatures. You can draw the graph by hand or use a computer programme like Google Draw to create your graph. It’s completely up to you!
Here is an example of a graph:
On your blog, post a picture of your graph.
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Task Description:
Hey there! It's me Leilani back again with another Summer Learning Journey activity. Today's task is week three , day one , activity one , two and three from the Summer Learning Journey activities. This first activity we had too choose a season that we recommend for tourist to come in. For the second activity we had to share five things that we learnt from this websites and share it on our blogs. Last but not least for the last activity we had to make a bar graph of the hottest temperature from different cities that the Summer Learning Journey team gave us. Hopefully you have enjoyed this post and can't wait until another one comes out. Stay tune. Bye!
Hi Leilani,
ReplyDeleteThis is Ms Nalder - I used to teach at Pt England School. I am now working with the Summer Learning Journey as I am at home looking after my little daughter Laila. She is 9 months old now and very cute!
I see you have been very busy these holidays! I love your poster about spring. I completely agree with you that it is a lovely time of year to visit NZ, although sometimes the weather is a bit rainy and cold! Visiting the Garden City is a good suggestion - have you been there before? I love it when all the daffodils are blooming!
I'm enjoying reading your blog and seeing what you have been working on!
Best wishes,
Ms Nalder
Hey Ms Nalder!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to hear from you again! I am super shocked that you commented on my Summer Learning Journey post! Your little daughter Laila must be super cute! Maybe one day you might want to swing around and bring her with you? Just kidding , but you can if you want.
Thank you very much for enjoying my Spring poster! Hopefully people who haven't been to NZ they would hopefully enjoy my suggestions about where to go. Specking of where they should go , I have never been to Garden City. I was looking through Google about places where you should go in the Spring and Garden City came up! I kept looking at this place and I was wowed from how many flowers were there!
Kind Regards ,
Leilani :)
Hi Leilani!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Ellee I am another commentor on the Summer Learning Journey team!
I hope you have had an awesome school holidays? :)
Great job with completing the whole of day one, week three! What a champ!
Activity One:
I like that you have explained so thoroughly why you would pick spring, I think you have picked some amazing activities for tourists too!
Great job with your presentation as well - your information looks beautiful on your blog :)
That's very cool that you went strawberry picking! Where there other treats that were strawberry flavoured there?
At my Nana's house there was fruit picking close by but we used to go there because they did real fruit ice-cream! It was super yum - have you had one before?
Activity Two:
You have come up with some great ways to stay safe in the sun this summer! So important to know, getting sunburnt is horrible!
Have you been sunburt before Leilani? ...very painful!
When I was little it was a pig that used to talk about being sun smart and he usd to talk about "slip, slop, slap and wrap" - Do they still say that in school?
Here he is if you want to check him out (Very cute):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVJUSvPrgk0
Activity Three:
Wow, what an awesome graph - I like that you have taken the time to draw it yourself!
I can't believe how hot these places are!! I really like the hot weather but I dunno if I could handle that heat!
I did go to Death Valley in America and that is meant to be one of the hottest places on Earth - It is suppose to be hot enough to fry an egg on the ground... I'm not sure if it's true though, I didn't try it :)
Do you prefer the hot or cold?
Would you like to visit somewhere this hot?
Ka pai Leilani!
Nga mihi,
Ellee :)