Today we visited the Hautapu river again so that we could test the water.
We wanted to test the clarity habitat flora and fauna so that we could see what kind of condition it was in, and what things we could find down there.
We found several little snails and they came under the poor category meaning that the water was poor that is why the snails lived in there and we found a worm which also was in the same category.
We also found a Dobson fly which comes under category three meaning that the habitat it lives in is quite clean.
We tested the clarity of the water and it was close to being poor but came under being fair.Which is still not very good for the waters clarity to be in.
Cassandra found some moss and mushrooms on the banks of the river.
It means that there is a lot of fungi around.
It was interesting to see what state the water is actually in and being able to test it ourselves what interesting too.
What we found out today is that the river is in quite a poor state.
Friday, 25 May 2007
Friday, 18 May 2007
Friday 18th May
Hi everybody today was an alright day we have got quite a lot of work done.
In our meeting this morning we had a brainstorm of what we are going to be doing in the next 7 weeks to get closer to our goal of cleaning the river.
We had a lot of ideas and have got a lot of work to do.
We all had designated jobs to do.
We also had a brainstorm on how to get our idea across to the community.
Today has been a good day ad we have got alot of ideas.
Ariana....
In our meeting this morning we had a brainstorm of what we are going to be doing in the next 7 weeks to get closer to our goal of cleaning the river.
We had a lot of ideas and have got a lot of work to do.
We all had designated jobs to do.
We also had a brainstorm on how to get our idea across to the community.
Today has been a good day ad we have got alot of ideas.
Ariana....
Friday, 11 May 2007
Our First Meeting
Today we had our first meeting about our project and how we are goin to accomplish it.
We talked about what we have done so far and what we need to do and how we are going to acheive this.
Our goal is to start to make a difference on the pollution of the Hautapu river.
We also thought about writing an article to the Taihape Times to tell the community what is polluting it and how we can solve this. Jess was choosen to write this article Michael Proof read it and ill will type it out.
We picked our Facillitator to be Michael and our note taker to be Jess.
We also as a class choose Jess and Michael to ring Horizions to see if they could find out what the pollution level in the Hautapu River is but unfortunatly they couldnt get through and had to leave a message.
Josh, Cassandra, Teri and Josh are goin to try update the wiki sometime through this week.
Mrs Hansen, Becka and Cody were absent from this meeting.
We will keep you posted on our meetings.
Ariana
We talked about what we have done so far and what we need to do and how we are going to acheive this.
Our goal is to start to make a difference on the pollution of the Hautapu river.
We also thought about writing an article to the Taihape Times to tell the community what is polluting it and how we can solve this. Jess was choosen to write this article Michael Proof read it and ill will type it out.
We picked our Facillitator to be Michael and our note taker to be Jess.
We also as a class choose Jess and Michael to ring Horizions to see if they could find out what the pollution level in the Hautapu River is but unfortunatly they couldnt get through and had to leave a message.
Josh, Cassandra, Teri and Josh are goin to try update the wiki sometime through this week.
Mrs Hansen, Becka and Cody were absent from this meeting.
We will keep you posted on our meetings.
Ariana
Thanks For Your Comments
Thank to everyone who has left me a comment your ideas are great.
Im unable to comment you back as your page is unaccessible to me.
So i hope to here from you again and feel free to give me any helpful ideas.
Im unable to comment you back as your page is unaccessible to me.
So i hope to here from you again and feel free to give me any helpful ideas.
River Visit
Last week we went to see what we could find at the Hautapu river that might be causing pollution.
We found quite a few of pipes leading to nowhere. Rusting old things just siting there. and some dead animals.
As we got closer to the river you could see alot of green slimey stuff just sitting still in the river. There was also alot of rubbish and plastic bags.
We couldnt see the bottom of the river becasue there is alot of muddy gunk sitting in the bottom, we could only see the bottom in the more swift shallow parts.
We also went to the Papakai which is the Hautapu river to see what we could find. There is a sign there saying Do Not Enter s river is pollueted from Febrary Floods. The floods were in 2005.
It is really bad to see all this stuff that may be causing pollution to the river.
I do hope we can make a difference and start to clean it up
We found quite a few of pipes leading to nowhere. Rusting old things just siting there. and some dead animals.
As we got closer to the river you could see alot of green slimey stuff just sitting still in the river. There was also alot of rubbish and plastic bags.
We couldnt see the bottom of the river becasue there is alot of muddy gunk sitting in the bottom, we could only see the bottom in the more swift shallow parts.
We also went to the Papakai which is the Hautapu river to see what we could find. There is a sign there saying Do Not Enter s river is pollueted from Febrary Floods. The floods were in 2005.
It is really bad to see all this stuff that may be causing pollution to the river.
I do hope we can make a difference and start to clean it up
Friday, 4 May 2007
Issue Decided
We have decided on what we think is a good issue and we have decided as a class to do The Clean up of the Hautapu River.
We had a debate over which issue we thought would benefit Taihape as a community.
We didnt choose reyclying because we thught it would be too hard as a class to set this up in our community.
Also as a class we felt that opening the Cinema was not important as the other two issues.
I think Cleaning the Hautapu river was a good idea and will benefit the community
We had a debate over which issue we thought would benefit Taihape as a community.
We didnt choose reyclying because we thught it would be too hard as a class to set this up in our community.
Also as a class we felt that opening the Cinema was not important as the other two issues.
I think Cleaning the Hautapu river was a good idea and will benefit the community
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