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Nikau

The Nikau Tree

  By:Faith

The Nikau Tree isn’t like all other trees like the palm trees, they grow in hot tropical countries except for the Nikau tree. Nikau tree is New Zealand native tree. The Nikau tree is the only tree in the whole world that grows in the cold far south.

In the early Maori years and the early Pakeha settlers would sometimes eat the big round shape or the bulb-shaped heart of the Nikau tree. Captain cook and the crew of the Endeavour ate the bulb-shaped of the Nikau tree as well. They had to destroy the tree to collect the food. Because of that now the meal is know as the ‘millionaire’s salad’.

When there was no bullets, bombs and rockets the Pakeha settlers, they use the little hard seeds from the Nikau tree to shoot birds down.  The Maori also used the Nikau fronds for the roofs. They also used the strip of the leaves for weaving kete or also weaving baskets .

When the bowl shape of the nikau tree has fallen off, this will be used for collecting water.

The Nikau tree  made of steel and copper, serve as a special icon to the Wellington Public Library.

You can also grow a Nikau tree yourself! The Nikau tree will take 20 years to grow a proper trunk.  But in the meantime they make a beautiful and pretty pot plant.

My Strategy on Range, Mode, Median and Mean

MY Chromebook information

Chromebook

The Chromebook really helped me in my learning because now, I can use it anywhere, any time and any place, instead of waiting in line just to use a computer. The Chromebook was also very helpful because Mrs Cochrane gives us new apps and websites. I could also research things I didn't understand instead of walking all the way to a dictionary. The thing that is so good about Chromebooks is that the WiFi is very fast so I could go on my Chromebook and to the internet straight away.

The new things I learnt while I used my Chromebook was CRC Convention of the Right of a Child. We learnt about Children who have the right to speak up and the right to do anything. UNICEF keep our children safe, because children are getting forced to do something they don’t want to don’t want to do. E.G marriage and war.

By:Faith

My Biome

Glass Bottles Recycling

Recycling Glass Bottles

I wonder what happens once I put a empty Glass into a Recycling bin? Silica Sand helps to make new glass bottles. The silica sand would be melted to a very high temperature. Recycled glass bottles are made all in a same, simple way. But except the cost is very little, and it will use up fewer of the natural resources.

Recycling glass bottles would start when people take their used jars and bottles to the recycling bin. Then the recycled bottles and jars would be sent to the lorry and to the recycling plant. At the recycling plant lids and bottletops from the jars and bottles are taken off. After then the glass is crushed into little pieces.

The crushed glass is sent by the lorry and to a bottle factory. Then here is where silica sand gets mixed. It should then be melted in a furnace at a very low temperature then made into new glass bottles.

Finally the hot liquid glass is pulled out of the furnace and given to the missionary that will make bottles. Recycled glass is better and as pure as new glass. Glass can be recycled and remade in a cycle. Without losing it’s quality.

By:Faith

Contaminated Water

Contaminated Water Is It Good or Bad?

I wonder if the water we are drinking is Good or Bad? Have you ever wondered what would happen if the world was filled with contaminated water? Why do we have to have unclean water? We are drinking the same dirty water except, it is just being cleaned with chlorine. So the water we are drinking is contaminated! It is causing and effecting many things.

Like litter just being thrown in the drain, killing and choking our marine animals because they think it’s food even the whales! If our whales are killed there will be plankton everywhere in the sea, then you wouldn’t be able to swim. Litter would go down the drain to the reservoir where they clean the water we drink.

The other problem is pesticides, people are using special spray to keep bugs away. All the chemicals that are in the spray get washed away by the rain and to the reservoir. Plants getting washed away too and even dying! The reservoir is giving us diseases, bacteria and virus in our water.

Another problem is cattle waste a cow poops on the farm and farmers put the cow’s poop down the drain and to the water waste. Then to the reservoir.

Contaminated water has another problem, which is acid rain where the contaminated water is going up to the clouds and rains down. The rain that pours down will make you itchy because of the contaminated water.

The last problem is oil spill people are taking their boats which are powered by engines. If the oil spills out then it would kill our marine life animals and they will all die. So basically Litter and Oil spill are a problem for our marine animals!

We need to help stop throwing things in the drain so the water we drink will be pure clean. So think about it no more marine animals will choke or die and they will be safe. So no more extinction. Not only that but the whole world would be safe! Who would want to drink or swim in contaminated water? Who wants to help stop littering? Who wants to help the world? Who would want dirty water in a glass?

By:Faith