News from the 3/4 Team...

Reducing our Carbon Footprint!

As part of their topic, The Blue Marble, Team 3/4 students have been exploring:

• What is a carbon footprint?
• What things do we do that have an impact on Earth’s climate?
• What are some ways we can reduce our carbon footprint?

Students came up with many ways human actions impact Earth, such as:

• We create air pollution by travelling in cars
• Lots of our cars run on petrol
• We use lots of water
• We waste things that we could reuse or recycle
• We cut down trees
• We use lots of electricity
• We make and use too much plastic
• We destroy animal homes
• We drop litter on the ground

Students then set 3 goals for actions they could take to reduce their impact.

Below are some examples of their work:

Being a Water Watcher!

Students also participated in a fantastic incursion run by Yarra Valley Water called 'Water Watchers'.

Through the highly engaging and interactive sessions, students learned about how precious a resource water is, and how important it is for us all to save it.

Afterwards, they all vowed to:

• Take shorter showers
• Fill the dishwasher before turning it on
• Fix leaky taps and hoses
• Turn off the tap unless the water’s being used
• Only use a sprinkler if the garden needs it