Tread Lightly Caravan Visit

Today Room 2 had a visit from the Tread Lightly Caravan. We learnt about caring about the environment and how one person could make a big difference. In the visit I learnt that phones don't go in the landfill because it takes more than 200 years to break down. Also I learnt that in just one day you could be wasting 30 bottles of water. I realised that turning the light off when I'm not in the room and not having the sink running, even for an extra minute, when I'm not using could help the environment a lot. Then at the end we took photos of ourselves holding what we'll do in the future to help save and care for the environment.

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Fwd: Tread lightly Caravan

Room 2 discovered today just what the impact of their lifestyle has on our planet.  Many of our groups discovered that they will require two or more earths to sustain the way that they are living their lives now long term.

Ask your child.to.share what they learnt today with you.

How big is our footprint?

E-waste 

How much energy can we generate

What are we using the most of?

What are recycled materials used for?

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

My visit to the Tread Lightly Caravan - Amy

Today room 2 visited the Tread Lightly Caravan. My favourite activity was Vines and Geckos. When we were at the environmental footprint first we got about 3.7 earths and the second time we did all the negative options and we got about 6.3 earths.

My second favourite activity was the exercise bike. I learnt that if you put a phone in the landfill it will stay there for hundreds of years. I also learnt to use both sides of a piece of paper,before recycling. At home I am going to start switching appliances off at the wall when I am done using them.I am also going to start picking up rubbish and putting it in the bin.

 

Tread Lightly Caravan.- Bella

Today we visited the Tread Lightly Caravan run by Sam and Lola. We learnt about how to help look after our environment. Did you know that if everyone at our school left the tap running while we brushed our teeth, we would go through 10,000 1 litre drink bottles a day!

Our senior courtyard flooring is actually made out of soft plastics, otherwise known as plastic timber.

Our family can make a change by not having showers for as long as some of us do, and on sunny days we could dry some of our laundry outside rather than in the drier.

Bella ​

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Tread lightly - Boulton

It is a good opportunity for kids that don't know what is good and what is bad for the environment, to now understand the small things that can change environment.

I think my favourite station is the making power by your energy. This means that you can save money.

2 things that I could do to change the environment is 1, have a smaller shower, and 2, take a bike or take a walk  

Tread Lightly caravan - Travis

The Tread Lightly  told us a lot about the environment. did you know that a phone will not break down until it has been 2 hundred years.​

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Tread Lightly Caravan.

Today we visited the Tread Lightly Caravan and had a great time.We did different types of activities like The Caravan, Gecko's and Vines, E waste, Storm Water and Energy. We learnt so many facts and information such as, a piece of polystyrene can turn into a Jumper and if you use a really old bolt compered to a new bolt and try generating power the newer bolt is a lot easier to generate but the older bolt uses a lot more energy. If everyone does one small thing it could change the world. I'm going to put more fruit into my lunchbox instead of pre-wrapped food.

Tread Lightly Caravan - Jack

Today Rm 2 visited the Tread Lightly Caravan and we learnt many things.  I learned to not put phones in the bin because chemicals can leak out of it and make the bin poison and to have short showers (2-4) minutes instead of long baths. Two things in my life that I am going to change is don't leave the tap on while brushing your teeth and to switch off lights when I leave the room.  

Tread Light Caravan

Today Rm 2 Visited the Tread Lightly Caravan. It was a good Trip. We did activities in the hall, My favourite activity was the exercise bike I peddled it and switches the light on.  We did Geckos and Vines it was like snakes and ladders with Mrs V. We cranked a handle to make he light bulbs go. We had to answer questions in the Caravan one of the questions were: 'do you buy NZ Food?'. It was a nice time at Tread Lightly Caravan. One activity was about how some rubbish lasts over 100 years it turns black and some times it disappears and some you find it hard to see. I saw the boxes from the soap they were small boxes. The ones that have lasted over 100 years was very hard to see, I can't believe it! The ones that have been there for over 25 years were easy to see, it was heaps of fun!! We know to how to save the environment now. One important thing is throw rubbish in bin and we can save the world by walking to places close to us, so you don't need to take a car!

By Alan

Tread lightly caravan visit - Kaitlin

On the 6 of September Room 2 had the tread lightly caravan come and see us and we learnt about e waste, which meant electronic waste.  I learnt that a phone has gold inside it and that when a phone rusts it leeks this poison. That poison goes down to the ground and though the dirt and into the streams that take it in to the ocean and the poison can kill the sea life.We looked at some rubbish and saw that oranges and apples and grapes and strawberry where thrown in the bin instead of the compost can break down and we can use it for our dirt. We learnt that leaving the water on when we brush our teeth we use up five bottles of water and that is for two mins.We brush our teeth two times a day we will use up ten bottles a day and that's a lot of water.Next time you brush your teeth turn the tap of and remember to put your food scraps in the worm bin not the bin.​​              

  By Kaitlin

Ayrton tread lightly caravan

I learnt at the tread lightly caravan that phones have gold in them and I also learnt that the battery

 inside of your phone have poison in them.

There were heaps of activities but my favorite one was looking through the telescope at some bugs.

Ayrton     

Tread Lightly Caravan Trip - Nicholas

Today we were on the Tread Lightly Caravan trip

We were split into groups of an average of 3 to 5 people

and there were stations on different activities 

I enjoyed the geckos and vines mostly because I had great luck today when rolling the dice .

Rm 2 learnt a lot about recycling about the landfill and what we can do to change the environment even if your change is small 

I learnt about how much water we're wasting over simple things like brushing your teeth morning and at night and to save water instead of leaving the tap on while your'e brushing your teeth.

We also were told that over morning and night for Rm 2 to brush their teeth while leaving the tap on we would waste over 600 water bottles!

By Nicholas

Tread Lightly Visit Connie

Have short showers(2-4 minutes)instead of baths. Yes I really need to work on that! Today, Tuesday 6 September 2016, the Tread Lightly Caravan came to visit Rm 2 There were 6 stations around the hall and one in the back car park.  I really enjoyed   stations 6 and 4.  At station no 6 we were seeing how our environmental foot print affected the world.  It was this quiz where you answer 22 questions.  My result was pretty...bad. I needed 2.6 earths to maintain my family's way of living if everyone was using it that way. But at least my environmental foot print was smallish. Now on to station 4.  That station, well all I have to say is that it's just so much fun! You had to ride a bike for the sander object, some sort of light and a LED light to work .Also you had to spin the lever to make a blender work. I also learned that just by turning off the tap when you're brushing your teeth can save about 5 bottles of water, and not only that but in some clothes there are plastic ? So think about it, how can you change the world?

Tread lightly

Today we had a visit from the Tread Lightly crew, Laura and Sam. We went on a rotation around six activities;energy sourcing, finding out our environmental footprint,e-waste, geckos and vines and using a microscope. The energy sourcing was when we used a bike to power lights and an electrical sander.  We also had to turn a handle to power light bulbs and whizzer. It was actually harder than you'd think! E-waste is when you throw away phones. We learnt that phone companies purposely make the screen an easily able to break and coded it so that it would slow down in about four years. Whenever you say yes to an update it slows the phone and wreaks the battery. Phones have a type of gold in them but it is very small. If you change your phone every year you will go through 72 phones! And if you throw away a phone only every four years your average number of phones in your life would be 20. To find out our environmental footprint was answered questions on a touchscreen TV. My result was that if everyone lived like me we would need 2.6 earths. If feel really bad now! Geckos and vines was a New Zealand and enviromental take on snakes and ladders. If we landed on a gecko we would have to answer a New Zealand themed question. If we got it wrong we would slide down the tail. If we landed on a vine we had to answer a question. If we got it right we would climb up the vine. Using the microscope was quite fun. There were a range of things to look at; honeycombs, worms, wool and...dead animals, it was actually interesting! 

Before our rotation we learnt that if everyone in our school kept the water on while brushing their teeth, all that water would fill ten thousand bottles (ten thousand litres)!

I loved the tread lightly caravan, I need to keep thinking about what impact my actions have to the environment.

Charli

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Tread lightly

Today we had a visit from the Tread Lightly crew, Laura and Sam. We went on a rotation around six activities;energy sourcing, finding out our environmental footprint,e-waste, geckos and vines and using a microscope. The energy sourcing was when we used a bike to power lights and an electrical sander.  We also had to turn a handle to power light bulbs and whizzer. It was actually harder than you'd think! E-waste is when you throw away phones. We learnt that phone companies purposely make the screen an easily able to break and coded it so that it would slow down in about four years. Whenever you say yes to an update it slows the phone and wreaks the battery. Phones have a type of gold in them but it is very small. If you change your phone every year you will go through 72 phones! And if you throw away a phone only every four years your average number of phones in your life would be 20. To find out our environmental footprint was answered questions on a touchscreen TV. My result was that if everyone lived like me we would need 2.6 earths. If feel really bad now! Geckos and vines was a New Zealand and enviromental take on snakes and ladders. If we landed on a gecko we would have to answer a New Zealand themed question. If we got it wrong we would slide down the tail. If we landed on a vine we had to answer a question. If we got it right we would climb up the vine. Using the microscope was quite fun. There were a range of things to look at; honeycombs, worms, wool and...dead animals, it was actually interesting! 

Before our rotation we learnt that if everyone in our school kept the water on while brushing their teeth, all that water would fill ten thousand bottles (ten thousand litres)!

I loved the tread lightly caravan, I need to keep thinking about what impact my actions have to the environment.

Charli

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Tread lightly

Today we had a visit from the Tread Lightly crew, Laura and Sam. We went on a rotation around six activities;energy sourcing, finding out our environmental footprint,e-waste, geckos and vines and using a microscope. The energy sourcing was when we used a bike to power lights and an electrical sander.  We also had to turn a handle to power light bulbs and whizzer. It was actually harder than you'd think! E-waste is when you throw away phones. We learnt that phone companies purposely make the screen an easily able to break and coded it so that it would slow down in about four years. Whenever you say yes to an update it slows the phone and wreaks the battery. Phones have a type of gold in them but it is very small. If you change your phone every year you will go through 72 phones! And if you throw away a phone only every four years your average number of phones in your life would be 20. To find out our environmental footprint was answered questions on a touchscreen TV. My result was that if everyone lived like me we would need 2.6 earths. If feel really bad now! Geckos and vines was a New Zealand and enviromental take on snakes and ladders. If we landed on a gecko we would have to answer a New Zealand themed question. If we got it wrong we would slide down the tail. If we landed on a vine we had to answer a question. If we got it right we would climb up the vine. Using the microscope was quite fun. There was a range of things to look at; honeycombs, worms, wool and...dead animals, it was actually interesting! 

Before our rotation we learnt that if everyone in our school kept the water on while brushing their teeth, all that water would fill ten thousand bottles (ten thousand litres)!

I loved the tread lightly caravan, I need to keep thinking about what impact my actions have to the environment.

Charli

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