Eel Summary

Hydro Tasmania has made something new and unique;a hole in a dam wall. The dam in question is a man made dam. They made the hole to help the eels, which are called the slippery short finned eel,migrate the 3000km to New Caledonia. The hole cost $1,000,000 dollars to make and was called the Eel Bypass.

The slippery short finned eel lives in dams for about 10-35 until they are classed as mature,then they make the journey (called the migration) downstream from December to April to complete their breeding cycle before they die. The larval (baby eels or glass eels) then drifts on the current.

The reasons for the hole are that they also made an eel ladder which will help the eels swim upstream. Another purpose for the eel ladder is that the eels survival depends on the ladder so the eels can reach the breeding spot so they don’t die out.

There are only a few recorded people and companies involved Guy Barnett,Steve Davy and scientist David Ikedife helped support the hole. Hydro Tasmania helped make the hole.

 Eel Summary

This week our learning topic in class was eels. We were given a slide of information and had to take notes on it. After we had taken the notes we had to write some paragraphs on the notes. Here is my writing,I hope you enjoy.

 

Vocab Match-up

Vocab Match-up

This week one of our tasks was a vocab match-up. We had a scrambled mix of words and meanings and we had to fix them by copying and pasting the meanings so they were correct. Here is mine,I hope you enjoy.

Vocabulary Matchup and Prediction

WALT: Use prior knowledge and vocabulary clues to make predictions.

Larval	relating to the immature part of the lifespan of some insects and other animals
Transparency	quality of being see-through
Metamorphose	change form
Juvenile	young, immature
Elvers	young eels at a particular stage of development
Spawn	release of deposit eggs or lots of offspring
Chute	sloping channel or slide
Cascade	tumble down,as in a waterfall
Biodiversity	the range of plants and animals in a habitat
Initiative	an action or plan

Maths Dlo

 Maths Dlo.

Today we had the activity to make some strategies on simple math. Me and my friend Zoe decided to do 3 on both addition and subtraction. I hope you enjoy.

Karen Walker

 Karen Walker

Karen Walker is a fashion designer. Me and my friend Zoe made a blog post on her and what she was in the news for. I hope you enjoy.

The Setting In Me

 Setting in me

We were asked to do a piece of writing about a setting of a place & how it relates to us. I chose my place to be a library,here is mine & I hope you enjoy!

The Chariot Of Pompeii

 Debating whether Pompeii's artefacts should stay in Pompeii or go to a museum.

This morning blog post is about the debate we had about whether ancient artefacts,such as the chariot below should stay in Pompeii or get moved to a museum. We were shown an article about an ancient chariot that was found recently. Our big question was should it get moved or should be placed where it was found. I thought that it should be moved to a museum because things like weather,animals and people could harm the item. Do you think it should be moved somewhere else or stay where it was found?