Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy? There are many types of energy. Energy is about being sustainable and giving energy to living things and also people getting energy from food.

Where do humans get energy from? Humans get their energy from healthy foods and drinks.

Plants

1. What substance does a tree use for food?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. photosynthesis                                                       b. chlorophyll
c. glucose                                                                   d. leaves

2. What four things does a tree need for photosynthesis? (highlight your answer in yellow)
a)Food.
b)Water.
c)Chlorophyll.
d)Sunlight. 

3. What causes a tree's leaves to appear green? The chlorophyll makes the leaves to appear green and when it is autumn there is less chlorophyll then it had before.
4. What signals a tree to preparing for winter?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. The days become colder.
b. The weather becomes dry.
c. There are more rainy days.
d. There are fewer hours of sunlight.
5. How does a tree get water?(highlight your answer in yellow)
a. It makes water in its leaves.

b. It turns glucose into water.
c. It absorbs water through its roots.
d. It uses photosynthesis.

6. Why do a tree's leaves change color in the fall? (highlight your answer in yellow)
a. The tree has less chlorophyll.
b. The tree has less water.
c. The tree has no leaves.
d. The tree is growing quickly before the winter sets in.

Compost

What is compost?
Compost is like a waste bin for people to throw their fruit scraps and left overs in. Worms make worm juice for the compost bin.
What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?

• Milk
• oil
• meat
• orange skins
• pet droppings
• bones
• Tins
• plastic
• packets
• clothes
• cloths
• shoes that are old.

List 5 things that you can put in a compost bin.

1. Apple core.
2. Banana peel.
3. Left over foods.
4. Fruit scraps.
5. Pear core.

Sustainability
This term you have completed a group project about the roles, rights and responsibilities of how people maintain sustainable food sources.
Draw a flow chart that represents the responsibility that people have to maintain the food source your group researched this term.
Sustainability group topic (e.g pork farming):_______Dairy Farming. ______________

Draw and label a picture that represents a healthy Kai garden.

MY TOPIC REFLECTION

• What have you learnt about this topic?
• What did you like about this topic?
• What is your role in practicing sustainability for a balanced future - at home, at school, in my community?

I have learnt that living things have energy but unliving things don’t have energy because they are not alive but living things are alive. What I liked about this topic was making a Kai garden and learning about photosynthesis, compost and sustainability. To be sustainable at home I need to re-use and recycle, exercise to keep fit and eat healthy food and drink plenty of water. At school I can be sustainable by playing with positive friends, doing my work on my net book and to help our caretaker pick up the litter. My role in the community and to be sustainable is to re-use and recycle and picking up the rubbish and throw it in the rubbish bin instead of throwing it in the ocean for the cold blooded animals to die.