Month: June 2023

Mars –
Our New Home?

Think carefully about each question, and use evidence from the texts to support your conclusions. Write your answers in full sentences, and use explanations and examples where needed.

Surface Level: Find the Answer in the Text
What are some similarities between Earth and Mars?

Some similarities between earth and mars is the sand; the sands on mars are like the deserts on the Earth. Another similarity is that Mars also has canyons, mountains, volcanoes, and ice.

Humans would find it challenging to live on Mars without what?

A challenge that humans would face is the oxygen, Mars oxygen has 96% of carbon dioxide it barely has any a little bit of oxygen. Another challenge is the trip to mars as it would take 7 months since mars is 342 million kilometres.

What are the 3 things that the article says are making our planet Earth unlivable?

Pollution, pollution is something that is harming our planet. Climate change, climate change is another thing that is harming the earth as it melts our ice causing sea level to rise. Lastly is the overuse of natural resources, us humans overuse the natural resources that we get making the earth less livable.

Inference: Use Clues from the Text to Think of an Answer
Explain in your own words why scientists are exploring the possibility of a move to Mars?

Scientists are exploring the possibility of moving to mars as the Earth is dying because of us humans and because there are no other habitable planets besides earth and mars. You might be wondering why Mars is habitable because it has ice and ice contains water.

What are some challenges that humans would face if there was a move to Mars?

Some challenges humans would face on mars is the oxygen, the oxygen on mars is 100 times thinner than the oxygen on earth and the oxygen on mars has 96% carbon dioxide. Another challenge that humans would face is the food as we can’t grow stuff on the surface of mars.

Why do you think plants will be so important to the terraforming of Mars?

Plants are very important for terraforming Mars as a tree is a plant and trees absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen and you will need oxygen to make an atmosphere.

Unfamiliar Words: Clarifying Language that may cause Misunderstanding

Word
Sentence from the text
Definition

Enthusiast

A planet called Mars, has captured the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts alike.

Enthusiast means someone who is very interested in stuff.

Potential

Let’s take a closer look at Mars and the potential of humans moving there

Potential is when something can happen in the future.

Abundant

While Earth is beautiful and abundant, we must face the reality that our actions are harming our planet.

Abundant is when something is in large quantities. Another definition of abundant is when there is plenty of.

Generate

We would need to find ways to grow food, create sustainable habitats, and generate the resources necessary for survival.

Generate is when you create or produce more.

Global Inferencing: Making Connections between the Text and the Wider World

Would you want to be one of the first people living on Mars?
Come up with solid reasons for your choice, and provide evidence, and examples to support your reasons.

No I would not want to live on Mars, yeah the earth is dying but if we move to mars we could possibly ruin mars as we already ruined the earth. We could also just make our technology better and make the earth better. If that won’t work we could just generate more trees for oxygen and terraforming Mars would take over 100k years and in that time we could slow down pollution.

The oxygen that Mars has is 96% carbon dioxide and the trees or plants would be hard to plant as the trees would die easily. If you were the first person to live on mars you would be isolated. That’s why I don’t wanna go to mars and I just wanna stay on earth and make it better.

The trip to mars is also bad for us. It could be a low chance of actually arriving to mars as it would take 7 months and in those 7 months the ship could malfunction. Staying on the ship with no gravity can cause bad health problems like losing 1%/1.5% bone density. That’s how being the first person to live on mars is terrible.

Climate Change – The Biggest Challenge

We have spent the last week learning about Climate Change and the impact that it has on life on Earth. For this week’s writing task we are going to be explaining what Climate Change is, what impact it has, and what we need to do to improve how we look after the environment.

Make sure you have read and understood what Explanatory Writing is, and have made a plan.

Your task is to explain
what Climate Change is, and what impact it has on Earth.

Begin your writing here:

Hello! Today I’ll be showing you how climate change is affecting the world and how we can make an impact on climate change. I will also talk about how much it has affected the world in the past and how we could maybe solve climate change.

Climate change has affected the Earth a lot. In the past 100 years the sea level has raised up to 6-8 inches and is continuing to rise every year. Greenhouse gases trap the heat into the earth causing glaciers on the Earth to melt causing the sea level to rise. Many flat countries like Tuvalu, Kiribati, and more are already at the risk of sinking but in the future the countries would completely sink. That is how much climate change has affected the earth and is still continuing to affect the Earth.

Climate change will keep going faster unless we do something. EPA is a community that is trying to help slow down climate change and they’re researching what we can do to slow down climate change. After they researched how we can slow down climate change, they found out that we need to eat more vegetables, ride bikes or electric cars, Reduce, Reusing, Recycling. Climate will keep destroying the earth unless we start doing those things.

Hello again! This is another task I spent time on the entire term on, this task is about the changes of matter. This task is about liquids,gases, and solids this was a very fun task because I learnt so much stuff about the states of matter.

Hello! in the past term I have been working on this task. This task is about how cream a liquid can turn into butter a solid. This task also explains stuff about liquids, hope you enjoy!

http://Hello! This is a task I have been working on this past term, the experiments were so fun and cool. This task is about solids and facts about solids, It is also about Oobleck as it can turn into a solid and a liquid.

http://hello today i worked on this activity it was really fun  but it was a little hard i hope you enjoy it!

hello this term i have made a project that shows a solid turning into a liquid. I showed the banana witch is a solid turning into a smoothie witch is a liquid. The blender breaks the molecules in the solid and it becomes a liquid. This project was really fun and i had an amazing time doing it!