Activity 3: Going, going….gone [10 points]
Over the years, scientists have made some surprising discoveries. One of
these discoveries is that we have entire cities (e.g. Jakarta, Indonesia and Venice, Italy) that are slowly sinking into the ocean. Scientists believe that, one day, the cities will disappear completely under the water. Yikes!
Some of the residents (people living in the cities) have taken pictures of their neighbourhoods and written stories about their lives in order to make a record of what ‘life was like’ in their city before it disappeared.
Let’s imagine that New Zealand was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean next week (Eek!). Before it sinks you are asked to write a blog post telling people what life was like in New Zealand in 2018.
On your blog, post a description of life in New Zealand in 2018. Please remember that the people who read your post will have never been to New Zealand or even seen a picture so it is your job to ‘paint a picture’ of New Zealand using your words. You can also post pictures, if you wish. Be sure to fully attribute the pictures.
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New Zealand Life in 2018
Dear people of New Zealand,
It just came on the news that New Zealand is going to sink nextweek and I am so sad.I wish all you people reading this were able to see what New Zealand looked like before because it was beautiful. The beaches were beautiful and clean and the sand was light brown and felt nice on your toes in the summertime. At the beach in Summer you will see heaps of families and people swimming and heaps of kids playing with the sand. We had beautiful clean green grass and parks. Kids were laughing and playing on the swing and slides and climbing the monkey bars and other people use to walk their dogs and have picnics. New Zealand was big so you had to use a car to drive around so there were lots of cars everywhere. Some people used the bus and the taxis or trains or they can use bikes and lime scooters. Where I lived we had a big city and it had a really tall famous building called the skytower. At night it glows and its so tall and big.You can go inside the skytower and eat at the restaurants or go up and have a good view of the city.The city was a very busy place with lots of shops and people everywhere and at night time it was busy too and nearly everything was open.I wish you were able to see it because it was beautiful.I have some pictures of New Zealand so you can see a little bit of life in 2018.
Thanks,
Jahrey
Photo credit by : Greg Bowker
Photo Credit : RadioNZ/Sun live
Photo credit : Otahuhu Recreation centre
Hi Jahrey,
ReplyDeleteIt's Leslie here, a member of the Summer Learning Journey team, reading your blog from home in Canada. It's wonderful that you've posted such a great description of your country and posted photos, too, so that someone like me can see your beautiful part of the world!
It sounds as though you love New Zealand and I can understand why! Do you spend most of your summer holidays in Auckland or do you travel about a bit, out to the wilder areas of the country?
I can imagine that you've been having a good summer holiday with all of the things that you've described as options. The water park in the photo looks like a lot of fun, for one thing!!
I live in the northern hemisphere, of course, and so we're in the middle of our winter. It's very very cold today with temperatures around -35 C. Is that hard for you to imagine? Even our dog doesn't want to go out for her walks today, and that's unusual. We're hopeful that it will warm up a bit in a day or two but I am loving all of the snow that's on the ground and the beauty of the winter wonderland it creates.
I'll keep on reading your blog. Good work on this activity!
Cheers,
Leslie