Summer Learning Journey Week 2 Day 2

Summer Learning Journey Week 2 Day 2

Activity 1

Fabulous Flora

I would like to learn how to weave with flax because it would be interesting to make lots of different things.  I think there would be so many things you could make and I could make as many as I can.  You could make use of the flax that grows in many gardens instead of using plastic. So it would be a great skill to use to help save our environment.

Activity 2

Mighty Mangroves

I think that Jacinda Ardern is a strong and tough person. Jacinda Arden is the Prime Minister of New Zealand. She has had to be strong to face all the challenges of being a woman in Parliament. She needs to be tough enough to face criticism from the opposition parties, people across the country and the world. She has used these to work her way through the channels of Parliament to the top.  She can talk on the world stage and stick with the policies that the government have come up with. She has also become a new mother and this has not stopped her from doing the job at hand. Jacinda has to be strong and tough to take criticism of being a working mother in a high profile position.  

Activity 3

Stranger than Fiction

Facts that are the same between the Venus Flytrap and the White Baneberry plants.

1. They are both attractive plants, the White Baneberry has eyeball looking flowers while the Venus flytrap has open lobes to attract insects.

2. They are both poisonous.

3. They both come from North America.

Facts that are different between the Venus Flytrap and the White Baneberry plants.

1. The White Baneberry plants have very small white flowers about 6mm in size. The Venus Flytrap has no flowers.

2. The Venus Flytrap has lobes that shut when prey come in contact with them.  The White Baneberry plants do not eat prey.

3. The Venus Flytrap grows to about 13 cm tall while the White Baneberry grows to about 60cm.

Pictures from mysteriousworld.com

       White Baneberry.                          Venus Flytrap.