Making a sustainability Board game.

The final part of the RIP Assignment was a sustainability project that draws in our personal skills and interests. For this task, I chose to partner up with a mate and create a board game on tinkercad on the topic of Deforestation. As I was making a board game I took inspiration from the well-known games monopoly and the game of life. I decided to make the game simple without overcomplicating the rules, but I still wanted it to be original. As my partner was away for the first few days I didn't want to start creating the rules or the purpose of the game, so instead, I created the board that you play on. After my partner decided to show up we started getting into the final details of the game as in the rules and the cards that you pick up. This honestly didn't take as long as I thought it would, after we got the rules down it was full steam ahead, and we got it done after just a few lessons.  If I were to do this again I would start off by writing the rules as it was much simpler when we knew what we were doing.

The Javan Rhinoceros Investigation.

The next part of my sustainability assignments consisted of creating an investigation about a sustainability topic that draws in our mathematics skills that we have gathered over the course of this hurumanu. For my investigation, I wanted to focus on Critically endangered species, so I chose the Javan rhino. The purpose of my investigation was to answer my question "How do we know if what we are doing to protect rhinos is effective?" To do this I had to look into what was being done to save the Javan rhino but also the status of the Javan rhino population over 50 years. The answer to my question was Yes, it is effective. Even though the population has only increased by around 50 from 1965 to 2020 it is a big step to getting a stable number of Javan rhino.  To include some mathematics skills we had to create a graph of our findings from the investigation, I presented my results through a line graph as I thought it was most effective for showing the growth in population.  To present my investigation work I decided to keep it simple and do it on google slides. This investigation was very inspiring as I never realized how critically endangered this species was and what is being done about this issue.

Sustainability Reflection!

This term during hurumanu 1, we have been focusing on sustainability This hurumanu has combined the subjects Social studies and mathematics to create our topic Sustainability! We started off watching videos that explain the massive problems that are occurring around the world. Some of the topics that the videos covered were climate change and the COVID19 pandemic. Week two we moved onto the mathematics side of the hurumanu and looked at the statistical inquiry. One of the activities during this section was using the dragonistics data cards to create graphs that displayed the data from the cards. Week three we went back to social studies topics and studied more in-depth about sustainability. Week four we learn about sustainability even further and how to correctly structure an essay. Week five we looked at paragraph and sentence structure to record the information we had researched on sustainability issues. Week six and onwards we switched back to mathematics and focused on Area, population, and calculation, For this all of our activities were on Mathletics. After completing all of our tasks on Mathletics we gathered all the skills we had learned to design our dream house/Bedroom/Property. Our designs were created on the 3D designing system, Tinkercad.

During this hurumanu, we went in-depth about what sustainability was and some of the issues that are destroying our planet. This has a big influence on us to stop ignoring the cry of the planet and wake up to challenges that we must face for the better. During this topic, I learned about issues that I didn't even realize existed. But not only that, the effects that our everyday activities have on not just the environment but people as well. One thing I would have changed is I would have focused more on the mathematics work as I felt like the main star of the show was Social studies.