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Touch Rugby Reflection

 

This term in PE we have been learning about Touch Rugby. Touch Rugby is played with 6 players on each team on the field at one time..The field is 70 m wide x 50m in length.

The equipment needed is a touch ball, space to play, tag belts, cones, and bibs. 

Here are some of the rules:

1 Players must pass behind (they have to be in front of their team to pass). 

2 After each touch, you need to roll the ball back to the members of your team. 

3 The game is played for 17 minutes for each half. However, the referee manages the time. 

4  6 touches are made and then you pass over the ball to the opposite team. 

5 Grounding the ball behind the try line scores a point for your team. 

One thing I improved at was kicking the ball to the other team/people. One thing I enjoyed was passing the ball backwards instead of forwards because it was kind of fun. I could keep working on my kicks to make it better and easier to do. I enjoyed playing on the same team as my friends because it was easy to communicate with them and we worked better together. 

I always brought my PE gear to school

Out of 10, I would give myself a 5 for effort because sometimes I participated and other times I would just stand there. 

Kuala Lumpur Climate Strike 🇲🇾🪧

Hello Readers!!!

For two weeks in Social Studies we’ve been focusing on a research project of our choice. My chosen topic was the ‘Kuala Lumpur Haze Climate Strike.’  For the project we could either work by ourselves or in a group ( I chose to work independently). There were many questions we needed to answer in our project. Some questions included consequences, impacts and effects. I found the research project very simple and easy.

After choosing my topic I made a doc and pin pointed the main ideas of my topic. While doing so, I made sure to include all the links for later on. Once I finished researching, I wrote a ‘PEEL’  paragraph to answer each question.  Canva was what I used to make my slide. It was very easy to add and remove things to make my presentation better.

Climate Strike in Hazy Kuala Lumpur by Jordan

Websites

  1. Diplomat
  2. Malay Mail
  3. Climate
  4. KAMY
  5. NYCC Report
  6. Asthma
  7. Greta Thunberg
  8. Teen Activist
  9. National Geographic Kids
  10. NST
  11. Haze – MalayMail

Best Website = Number 8 (Teen Activist Link)

This website is the most reliable and helpful because it includes various dates and information for all of Greta’s significant events of her life. This also includes the specific dates and author’s of the article.

Another Good Website = 1 (Diplomat link)

It’s published by a reliable source because it has proof (videos & pictures) to back up the written information. I also found a lot of facts from it; most of the stuff I wrote is from what I read.

That’s all, thanks for reading 😜😜

Athletics Results

In PE we have been studying a range of athletic events in preparation for the school Athletics Day. We have learned about how to correctly perform some new events. Two of the events we have learned about shot put and long jump. It was interesting learning different skills at different levels.

I mainly focused on discus; this is why it’s the highest score! To achieve this, I practiced harder during p.e lessons and used good methods. Watching others who received better scores benefited me. Holding the Discus in a specific way, swinging it once before throwing and aiming for a good distance helped me with discus. Discus became more enjoyable with getting higher scores. Next time I’ll use complex methods to have better scores.

Interesting pieces of information about discus is, that it was founded in 708BC. This is fascinating due to the fact it’s been going on for a long time. Aboriginal originally used Discus as a weapon; this seemed interesting. Another fun fact is that discus is mainly heavier for men than women — 2kg for men 1kg for women. The final piece of information I learned was how to hold it properly. 

There were a number of ways that I demonstrated respect towards other students during this unit. I did this by participating in all tasks and supporting everyone. Cheering my friends, watching everyone and clapping were the ways I did so. Respecting others doings helped highly. 

These all enhance hauora. For taha tinana, more are influenced into doing more sports; this impacts your physical health positively. All of your mental and emotional (taha hingenaro) health will be improved from the cheering and clapping. Taha whanau is affected well; you spend more time doing sports with your friends and having bonding time. Spiritual health is constructively affected by exercising in nature.

It is important that I develop resilience when we experience success or failure because the Whare Tapa Wha is always impacted. While exercising there are times you give up. Showing resilience helps all areas of hauora. However, if you don’t, more scenarios will include negative thinking. 

I can build my resilience when I experience success or failure by taking short breaks and continuing. By doing this I build positive confidence and have more hope. The more times I do so, the more I improve all sides of Whare Tapa Wha. These 4 walls of hauora are very significant. 

My results from athletics:

 

Technique checklist

Sprint Crouch Start

  • Hands behind start line
  • Back knee touches the ground
  • Hips raised above the height of shoulders
  • Push off using the front foot

Triple Jump

  • Maximum speed run up
  • Hop on one leg
  • Step to the other leg
  • Swing arms to jump
  • Land with two feet

Discus

  • Grip with the index finger at 12 o’clock
  • Discus is flat in hand
  • THumb is in line with the arm and shouler
  • Body twists and leads with the shoulder
  • One warm up swing

Water Pong – Health

Hello Readers!

For today’s lesson we participated in Water Pong. We investigated the rules and played in pairs. After we played amongst each other, we were tasked to create a blog post. In this blog post we needed to include answers to 6 questions. Under this is what I wrote I hope you appreciate my work!

In health today we took part in water pong (also known as beer pong).  We played the game in pairs, using a table, 5 ping pong balls and 12 cups. This was very simple and enjoyable.

Rules for the game:

  1. Cups must be 1/4 filled with water
  2. Each player requires 6 cups
  3. When starting, place the 6 cups in a form of a triangle
  4. 4 remaining = forming cups into diamond
  5. 2 cups left = placing each cup in front of each other
  6. Elbows behind the edge of the table
  7. One by one, you throw the ball
  8. Take away each cup the opposite player gets a ball into
  9. Play until one person has no cups remaining
  10. Cups are opposite of each other at the edge of each side of the table

Which areas of hauora were affected when you participated in the game?

The areas of hauora that were affected by participating in water pong were all of them. Taha whanāu, taha tinana, taha wairua and taha hingenaro — social, physical, spiritual and mental and emotional. Although, social (taha whanāu) and physical (taha tinana) were affected the most. 

How were the areas of your hauora affected when you played the game

My taha whanāu was impacted positively due to spending time with my friend during the process. The whole class worked in pairs or groups, which means all of ours was impacted well. Physical (taha tinana) was also impacted in a positive way. The constant movement to pick the ball from the floor and aiming to get the perfect angle explains why. We, in a way, were connecting with nature during the process; water. Which means, my taha wairua was impacted positively. Mental and emotional was also impacted in positive ways. I was mostly happy while playing the game; this enighted my taha hingenaro.

From this experience. I thought of how the words we’d previously learnt of, were linking together with this activity. Playing water pong with my friend makes this an interpersonal experience. With the whole class playing at once, this affects all of us beneficially. This influenced a societal uplift. During the time we were engaging, I used many strategic methods or strategies. My Whare Tapa Whā was affected for a short term, but left a superior consequence.

Do you think that the values of social justice: fairness or inclusiveness and/or non-discrimination were shown today? How?

Social Justice =

Fairness

Inclusiveness

Non discrimination

The social justice value of inclusiveness was visible while sorting out the groups. Everyone was able to be with someone and it was equal. Nobody was left out. Fairness was shown while handing out the cups/ping pong balls and the duration of the games. There were plenty of ping pong balls to hand out. All the groups were able to have 5 each. Each and everyone, had the correct amount of cups as well. Non discrimination was obvious all throughout. This shows especially when the games started; people took turns and everyone was included no matter what. 

How well do you feel that you participated in today’s activity? Why is that?

In today’s lesson I definitely participated well. (I was able to win the game between me and my friend). I think I participated well because of who I chose to play water pong with. Playing this with my friend was an amusing occurrence; we both improved our social and physical well-being.

What are the definitions of our other key concepts?

PIS 

Personal – Affecting one person. This only includes yourself no others. Issues revolving around this are less likely to be as significant as others.

Interpersonal – This involves more than 1 person but not as many as 1000. Problems surrounding interpersonal things happen with groups of people; parents and you, friends, teachers with students, etc. These difficulties that happen, can bring up more than personal issues as it’s remembered most of the time.

Societal – Evolves around a community, country, school, etc. More people are able to remember this for a longer period of time. Long term affects

Social Justice stands for F,I,N; fairness, inclusiveness and non-discrimination. This is commonly used to describe how well a trouble is affected in good ways. It’s a solution to explaining how badly/positively a set of circumstances was affected.  

Short term and long term explains how long a problem affects you. The first one; short term impacts you for the period of 0-3 months. You’ll likely forget about this and go on about your day. Long term is expected to last 3- ∞.  This could last forever in some cases. Long term has a higher chance of draining your taha hingenaro (mental and emotional area of whare tapa whā). 

Consequence explains results from an action you, or someone else has done. With any situation, there are consequences. Bad and good come with everything (including this). 

Tutorial for Water Pong

Images of Water Pong

  

Thanks for reading!!!

Banana DNA – Science

Hi Readers!

In yesterday’s lesson in science we extracted DNA from ripe Bananas. We’ve been focusing on Biology for the past term; we learned about the parts (phosphate, sugar, nitrogen bases, etc) of DNA, how the amount of chromosome pairs affect a person, the karyotypes,  how important it is and what DNA is — including the specific parts and much more.

Today we were assigned a blog post to explain what we did. We needed to describe the steps and what we did. After we did so, on a doc we did a summary made from the teacher. It was fun to experiment and learn about DNA. Enjoy reading!

Method

Equipment

  • Funnel
  • Zip lock Bag
  • Skewer Stick
  • Cloth  (Big enough to cover the funnel)
  • Test Tube
  • Beaker

Ingredients

  • Ripe or Unripe Banana
  • Ethanol
  • Dish Washing Liquid
  • Water
  • Sodium (salt)

Instructions:

  1. Tie your hair
  2. Make sure your environment is safe to experiment in
  3. Get all the equipment required
  4. Peel the banana
  5. Break the Banana into quarters
  6. Place one quarter of the banana into the plastic zip lock
  7. Sprinkle 1 pinch of salt
  8. Add 1/2 cup of water into the mixture
  9. Mush the mixture; until there’s no clumps or big pieces of banana
  10. Collect the beaker, test tube, cloth and funnel
  11. Place the test tube into the beaker
  12. Put the funnel with the cloth into the test tube
  13. Carefully pour the extract into funnel
  14. Using this method is called filtering
  15. Make sure to go through this process slowly
  16. When it’s all filtered, remove the funnel and cloth (make sure to thoroughly wash both)
  17. After all the banana is strained take the test tube out
  18. Pour warm water into the beaker (about 3/4 full)
  19. Once the water is poured put the test tube back
  20. Add dish washing liquid (5ml) into the test tube
  21. Mix this with the skewer (make sure to leave this in the test tube. But make sure it’s easy to grab after.)
  22. Leave this for 10 minutes
  23. Later when 10 minutes have passed, take the test tube out of the beaker (The mix should look slightly clearer than before)
  24. Slightly tilt the test tube on it’s side ( 45°)
  25. Pour no more than 3ml of ethanol into the test tube; be careful when doing so
  26. Patiently wait for the white, clump, stringy like strands to appear at the surface of the test tube
  27. Using the stick, pull the DNA (stringy strands) up
  28. Place them/it on a piece of paper towel
  29. All Done!! You successfully extracted Banana DNA 😮

Summary

This was a very fun practical/experiment to do (I wasn’t there for the whole time but from what I heard, this is what I think). I learnt interesting methods along the way; including that bananas have their own DNA. Next time I want to engage more.

Why did we add salt and detergent to the banana mix? Would it have worked if we didn’t add them? Why?

Salt is an important factor in extracting DNA. It’s job is to help bring the DNA jointly. If we hadn’t done so, it would’ve been more challenging and the banana molecules would’ve likely dissolved into the water. Detergent assists the cell membranes; shatters it down and allows the DNA to show. To be more specific,  dish washing liquid divides the lipids (fats) and proteins that make up the membranes bordering the cell and nucleus. Together they are very salient.

Without these it’s very difficult to go through with this experiment. The outcome will most likely, not turn out well. I certainly advocate you to use these two ingredients; salt and detergent.

Here’s 2 pictures of a cell:

Banana Cell (Parenchyma Cell) ↓

Human Cell (Cella) ↓

Video Tutorial

Website Instructions

OxfordOwl   ← Link

Images of Equipment 

1 = Skewers

2 = Test Tube

3 = Cloth

4 = Funnel

5 = Beaker

6 = Zip lock Bags

Images of Extracted Banana DNA:

Thank you for reading 😊!!

Freedom Fighters

Hi Readers!!

For the past lessons in Social Studies we have been focusing on the topic of Freedom Fighters. We discussed the story of an Anarchist (person who supports anarchy) whom was called Neil Roberts. His story was of him blowing up the Wanganui House computer which turned to him ending his life.

Today we got assigned the task of  creating a poster on Canva or paper. The poster required the definition of the five r’s; remembered, resulting in change, revealing, remarkable and resonant. For me, creating a poster on Canva seemed more attainable to do. So that’s what I did. I chose a template and begun writing the meanings down. Below is the poster.

I hope you enjoy reading the definitions!

Freedom Fighters by Jordan

Google Earth Work

During the past lessons, we began researching disasters/people that were significant in various ways. We needed to choose at least 5 different ideas and write and research about it. I chose significant events from Thailand, Myanmar/Burma, Philippines, Malaysia and Timor-Leste  + Michelle Yeoh and José Rizal.

Then I opened google earth up and pin pointed the significant people & places. After that I included the important information. Next I added some images, then re-read to make sure everything made sense.

Here is the link to my work:

Google Earth Work

India’s Independence

In Today’s lesson we began learning about the independence of India. We learned 4 new key words and talked about the definitions. Under this are the words!

Must know words

  1. Colonization – A country that takes control of another country that isn’t their own. They establish new rules and control the indigenous people of the specific area.
  2. Independence – Freedom to create new laws/choices for their country. This gives them the chance to do this without being governed or controlled by a country, organization etc.
  3. Empire – Similar to the British Empire. It’s a classification of nations ruled by an emperor, country/government. Another empire is the Russian Empire. Each of the countries in the Empire are ruled by the same country.
  4. Passive Resistance – The refusal of  following the government without using violence. It shows how you oppose certain rules/things.

After we learned the rules, we made a poster on Canva about the Independence of India. We needed to include the geography, culture/people (Socio-cultural), nature, government & economy and history. I used a template and then moved the text around to make more room for text and pictures; to create the poster. Hope you enjoy the poster.

Beneath is my poster!

India by Jordan

Mahatma Gandhi

On Friday, we began researching Mahatma Gandhi. We watched two videos of him, in them they explained his life story. The first one was a movie trailer. In my opinion, this video wasn’t as reliable because, it didn’t include historical facts. Afterwards, we watched a video involving more facts that are trustworthy. This had his place of birth, what jobs he had, obstacles throughout his life and the good & bad.

Next, we began creating a profile of his legacy. For the profile/poster we needed to embrace his place of birth, job, belief/faith, what he wanted for India, how his actions went and why he’s a freedom fighter. It was very simple to create this and I enjoyed learning more about him. His life was definitely interesting.

Here is the profile I made of him:

Mahatma Gandhi by Jordan

Lawyer Paragraph

For the final task of this topic we were assigned to write a lawyer paragraph. We read two articles displaying what he did to start the salt march and what happened throughout it. After I read the two, I began writing the paragraph. It was a bit difficult at the start, however, in the end I managed to make a summary of my point. I found it engaging in learning about it. Hope you enjoy reading my lawyer paragraph!!!

Here is what I wrote:

The salt march was an immense, dreadful, grim event in India’s history.

Fabrication of salt sales was declining due to British laws. Laws from them forbade the citizens of India to produce/sell salt singly. Imported salt was the only creation they could purchase. Indigent were laboriously affected — the majority weren’t able to afford salt. Protests have been continuously going on since 1900. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi) set foot to fight for freedom. He displayed disobedience to British acts using a non-violent and peaceful protesting resolution. On the 12th of March 1930, Gandhi, along with several others, began the Salt March. The Salt March started in Sabermati, near his Ashram (religious retreat). As each day passed, he stopped at a village. Each time, it was different. With this, he guided more to protest strongly against inequality. Eventually, thousands of peaceful protesters followed the route to the sea until the 5th of April. Over 385 kilometres were walked till they reached Dandi. On the morning of the 6th of April, he and his supporters infringed the law. They successfully produced salt along the shore of Dandi. For the remaining two months, they continued to obey the law. After a while, thousands ( over 60,000) were arrested or punished. From this, Gandhi was behind bars. In January 1931, he’d emancipated from custody. An agreement was made on the 5th of March to declare the arguments between the two. Mahatma Gandhi is globally known for the first act of civil disobedience towards the British Empire’s rule in India. Peaceful protests have continued to this day. It’s an even better solution to receiving guidance and recognition. Gandhi was the glue to the independence of India and history. Without him, India would’ve still been going through a depressing time.

North Atlantic Slave Trade

Last week we learned about the slave trade first. Specifically, the ‘North Atlantic Slave Trade’. It’s also known for the slave triangle.

After researching/learning we were tasked to create a poster. In it, we needed to describe what the slave trade was. I managed to accomplish this task easily. Hope you learn more from reading!

Atlantic by Jordan

Black Civil Rights Organization

Segregation = To be separated due to certain reasons. This could influence someone to be separated for long term or short term. 

Integration = The idea of combining two or more things together. Which produces a whole. 

Racism = Being disrespectful of someone due to their specific ethnicity. It’s very common in people of colour; Asians, Africans, Hispanic, Pacific Islanders, etc. 

Discrimination = This means to treat someone differently compared to other people. This could be because of their race, age, looks etc. 

Passive and Peaceful Protests = Protesting without any domestic violence. These are commonly known from Mahatma Gandhi.

Equality = Having all the rights you need to survive and have the right to have. This includes freedom and all races and people to have the same things and be able to do specific things.

We’ve recently begun a new topic in Social Studies. For this topic, it’s about black Civil rights. It’s a very sensitive topic and a very important part of history. This explains important events throughout the years of inequality. There are many freedom fighters included in this.

Brown vs Board of Education

Why was the supreme court decision significant?

The decision of this court case affected more than 1 group of colour heavily. In today’s time, it is still affecting history. Intentionally at the start people of colour were separated from those of European/white descent.  This deliberately impacted education and all rights of Black (and people of colour). During the 50’s Linda Brown attended a school located in Topeka, Kansas. She was rejected and told to go to a school 2 hours away (a ‘coloured’ school).

Linda was treated harshly and forced to go there. Instead of continuing this, they took it to court. This exact court case is very significant.  The case had 2 sides to it; those who were against it and others who supported it. Brown (Martin Luther King Jr party) was supporting exclusivity with both races; white and people of colour.  Opposite parties were opposed to this opinion. Freedom for black rights was important as it affected all races. Education was changed for the better. No matter if you were included or not, you were impacted. School has changed all around the world — there are now schools of mixed races and nationalities. Which created an inclusive equal future of education and schooling.

Martin Luther King Jr by Jordan

Rosa Parks

For the past two lessons in social studies, we’ve learnt about Rosa Parks. I found it very intriguing and interesting to understand/learn about. Her story was very inspiring and significant. Which, still’s a part of today’s history. After researching, watching videos and other stuff we made a poster.

Here is my poster! I hope you like it.

My name is Rosa Parks. by Jordan

Essay

For a practise assessment in Social Studies we needed to do an essay. It was a bit confusing at first but I managed to finish it.  Below is the link to my essay!

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Apartheid

The Apartheid was a policy of segregation that occurred in South Africa. This lasted from 1948 to 1994 (46 years). Majority of South Africa’s (African) population was forced to live away from the whites. All public spaces and transport separated both races. Contact was prohibited from the 2 races. Skin colour and facial features was one of the main factors separating them. Nelson Mandela’s role in this was to put this to an end; eliminating this rule to serve justice and heal. Him being the first Black president uplifted the rights for many. His dedication and commitment has caused many to support his efforts.

Nelson by Jordan

Thank you so much for reading my blog post 😁

Animal Therapy Assesment – Health

Hi Readers!

Today in health we got assigned a blog assessment. This time it’s based on the ‘Animal therapy ‘ topic. We started off by seeing therapy animals and hearing how they help people. Then we learnt about what both service and therapy animals do. After that we created numerous different types of presentations about the difference between service dogs and therapy animals. It was very captivating learning about the contrasting facts and information regarding the two service industries.

What is a service and therapy animal?

Both service and therapy animals are different. A service animal; commonly known for dogs, helps those who are unable to do simple tasks individually. They help in all the hauora areas for multiple different health conditions and needs. Therapy animals are familiar towards hospitals and universities. The main purpose is to reduce tension and encourage socialising skills in young children. A therapy animal helps with those coping with grief, physical injuries and mental health conditions. Unlike service dogs, therapy animals are able to work with many different people in various places. Service dogs are only allocated to a specific person. This means only the owner of the dog can get frequent assistance for tasks and many other things.

Evidence

Blog post

Canva Presentation

Blooket

Which conditions are eligible for a service or therapy in NZ?

Service dogs are only limited to very specific people. Medical conditions and mobility disabilities are both aliments that are entitled to purchase a service dog. Those with epilepsy, narcolepsy, diabetes, allergies that cause anaphylaxis, addisonian crisis and heart conditions are granted the likelihood of procuring a service dog. Therapy animals/dogs are accustomed towards people with diagnosed ptsd, depression, anxiety and psychiatric/intellectual disabilities. It’s also exceedingly common for the animals to go to schools/universities and hospitals to boost confidence, cater support and alleviate stress. Many symptoms are relieved with these helpful animals.

The difference between the two is that a therapy dog is capable of affection and comfort people in need of help and service dogs are allocated to a specific person. No one is allowed to touch a service dog apart from their owner. This is because service dogs go through intense procedures to becoming service dogs for those with illnesses.  Both the service/therapy animals support different conditions and needs; their jobs are completely different. Numerous therapy dogs are also proficient in encouraging kids to read out loud to boost confidence.

How do service and therapy dogs support wellbeing/hauora?

A service animal supports taha hingenaro (mental & emotional) by reducing anxiety symptoms and making sure everything is okay. They’re able to lower blood pressure and calm any negative emotions. Spending quality time with them helps increase your mentality. With taha whānau (social), service dogs instruct the person to be more collaborative and outgoing. This is vastly beneficial. They can help in socializing situations, more specifically talking —  they stick by their side the whole time. When spending time with friends service dogs have the ability to form superior relationships.

Taha wairua (spiritual) can be heavily improved with service dogs. Being with a service dog is one way of ameliorating taha wairua.  For taha tinana (physical) service dogs are trained to sense whether you’re going to faint or have any medical issues, help open doors when you’re physically disabled, pick up objects and also help in everyday tasks. Therapy dogs are able to boost your overall wellbeing and hauora as well. Keeping company with therapy animals you socially, emotionally, physically and spiritually additionally. They’re a great companion to reduce stress and tension; especially with university.

4 interesting/new things

  1.  Different animals can become therapy animals.

This was an extremely interesting thing I learned because I’d never heard about this before. At first I thought only dogs were the only ones. Learning that horses and frogs are capable of becoming one was fascinating.

2.   There’s a difference between service/therapy animals.

Originally, I assumed they were the same service. I never knew their jobs were completely opposite to each other. This is one thing I learned during the unit. At the same time it was also very interesting — the fact therapy dogs are proven to cure those in need of help and comfort.

3.  Service dogs are able to help in social situations.

I learnt a lot of information on this topic. The procedures they go through with those with social anxiety is compelling. Service dogs are very skillful in this area. All the deeds they do to help those with conditions are very considerate.

4.  That service dogs are able to grab medications.

For dogs to be able to help with tasks as small as this is extraordinary. It’s an interesting fact as the majority of animals are unable to do so. There are many other things service/therapy dogs can do that are interesting in addition.

Pictures of service/therapy animals

Thanks for reading 😋

Animal Therapy – Health

Hello Everyone!
This term we started a new topic of ‘Animal Therapy.’ For the past weeks in health we have been researching the impacts of service/therapy animals. Last week, we started an activity. The activity included questions you’d like to know about service animals and answers to the questions. I tried to ask questions I didn’t already know. So, I mainly asked about who can get them and why you can. Below is the work I did. Hope you enjoy reading it.

Questions I have/things I want to know Answers
Why did people use animals to help people and not other things? The natural abilities of animals benefit humans in many ways. They have the ability to train and learn to help people with health conditions, do tasks and alert them. 

During the 1960’s Dr. Boris Levinson discovered animals help those in many ways. Ever since, service/therapy animals have become popular. 
How much do service animals cost and why? A trained service dog can cost from $15,000 – $30,000. Including the necessities, costing $500 each year. To train an assistant dog in New Zealand, it costs $75,000. 

Due to the intense training required, service/therapy animals are more expensive than normal pets. The price can be different depending on the person’s needs. 
How do you specifically find out if you are able to get a service animal? To qualify for a service animal you need to get a doctor’s document. It can be for anxiety, disabilities or health conditions. But to officially get a service animal, you need to have a diagnosed condition. 
Can people that have no disabilities or health conditions get a service/therapy animal? You cannot have a service animal without any health conditions. This means these animals are for those in need of help and support. 

 

What are the positive impacts that service and therapy animals have?

  • Legends- cover all 4 areas of Hauora
  • Pro’s- cover 2-3 areas of hauora
Taha Hinengaro – Mental and Emotional

Taha Whanau – Social

Taha Tinana – Physical

Taha Wairua – Spiritual

Therapy/service animals have proven to provide comfort and reduce loneliness. For taha hinengaro, they can manage their symptoms and improve any symptoms (especially with anxiety). The animals can benefit in many ways; one being feeling safer. Service animals can help with confidence. In public they can help with social anxiety, by being by the owners side the whole time. Taha whanau is helped in multiple different ways with the animals. 

For taha tinana, service animals increase the motivation of getting outside and exercising. Regular walks with them can improve your blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Therapy dogs help with lifting your spiritual health; they decrease the feeling of depression. Your whole well being is upraised with the animals. 

Thanks for reading.

Trashing the Planet – Social Studies

Hi Guys 🙂

For social studies for the past 2 terms we have been focusing on the topic of ‘Trashing the World.’ We researched Japan’s toxic dump, made info graphics, wrote essays, etc. Today we began learning about certain countries that dump rubbish into ocean waters. Our class watched 2 videos, one about Guatemala and another about India. In the videos they poured the waste from trucks. It was kind of disappointing to see countries dumping rubbish waste in the ocean. Here’s the links to the videos: India, Guatemala.

Where is it happening?

This issue is affecting many countries worldwide. 81% of the plastics and rubbish dumped into the ocean is mainly from Asia. As of 2021, the Philippines is the country that dumps the most plastic/rubbish into the ocean. (They’ve dumped 356,371 metric tons). The United States is also a part of causing this; they produce a majority of the plastic waste. About 70% of rubbish is collected in India, which is dumped (only 30% is recycled). There are 20,000 metric tons of rubbish that is thrown down the Motagua River that leads into the Caribbean each year.

Why is it happening?

Many countries lack the resources to recycle and manage the waste. Various different countries are unable to afford the facilities/landfills, to prevent pouring rubbish in the ocean. However, there are few countries that do this on purpose. Many people around the world instead of recycling waste, they litter and put plastics/rubbish in the wrong place. Rubbish travels with the wind, and ends up in the ocean because of this.

What are your feelings about it?

In my opinion this issue is very unfortunate. This problem has slowly skyrocketed into a worldwide issue affecting many countries. It’s kind of sad seeing all the animals and people being affected by this. Although there are ways we can resolve the dilemma.  I believe we can fix this issue, by doing ocean clean ups and creating more resources for countries in need of them.

What is different between these countries and NZ?

There is a visible difference between these countries and New Zealand. In India, most cities burn their rubbish in open dump yards on the main highway. This can lead to pollution. The majority of garbage in Guatemala ends up in clandestine dumps. A clandestine dump is used to dump solid waste, without considering the outcomes. New Zealand disposes of waste in facilities and recycling services. The country also uses multiple different rubbish bins to help dispose of all the different types of waste properly.

Why doesn’t the government stop it?

Many other bigger problems are affecting countries involved in ocean pollution. This stops them from investing in recycling and facilities to dispose of it. Some countries are also in poverty due to war and lack of access to education, etc. There may also be some governments that choose not to invest in these issues.

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Guatemala ^

India ^

Thank you for reading!!!

Exploding Head Syndrome – Health

Hello Everybody!!

At the end of the last term we began studying medicine and health conditions. Last week we started our assessment for the topic. We needed to create an art piece explaining a treatments health condition. I chose to research Exploding Head syndrome (it seemed the most interesting to me). I started off by creating a Canva poster and making art with an Ai generator. It was actually quite easy to make the art pieces.

After that I began researching about the condition. I also made sure to add more information on a google doc (mainly to answer required questions).  To me I was actually shocked when I found out the actual meaning to the health condition, because the name seemed way crazier than it was. Basically it’s a sleep disorder that’s caused by anxiety and stress. When waking up/falling asleep you hear loud banging, bomb exploding, or a loud crash sounds.

For this blog post we need to include our art pieces we created. I hope you enjoyed reading the 2 paragraphs above. Here’s my poster I created and some other ai art pieces:

Poster

Thank you so much for reading  😁