My Topic Reflection

Topic Reflection

Energy –The Balance of Life

What is energy? Energy is power and is the balance of life.


Where do humans get energy from?Water,air,sunlight,tree’s and plant’s.

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)_Air_______________________
b)_Water_______________________
c)_Sunlight_______________________
d) ____Glucose____________________

3. What causes a tree's leaves to appear green?
Chlorophyll.

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 an organic matter.It helps the environment to be clean and green.


What are the things that you cannot put in a compost bin?

• Dairy products.
• Fat.
• Meat.
• Bones.

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

• Food Scraps.
• Banana peels.
• Grass.
• Leaves.
• Brown stuff.

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): Lamb 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?

Sustainability helps the plants and humans to live well and to grow and have energy.Keeping the plants alive will help the environment and the compost will help the worms produce nutrients for the plants so they can be healthy.To be sustainable at home I need to  recycle things like cans,plastic and cupboard.At school I can be sustainable by looking after our school Kai Garden by taking out the weeds and watering it.My role in the community to be sustainable is to pick up rubbish so that our environment can be clean and green.