kiwi kids news - the importance of integrity

Critical Questions:

1. Why do you think integrity is important?

i think its important because if you are not honest people won't trust you. 

2. Do you think that integrity is a part of your nature? Do your instincts warn you when you are doing something that doesn’t show integrity?

yes i think integrity is part of nature and my instincts do warn me. 

kiwi kids news featured article The really busy kid...is really that bad?

Critical Thinking Challenges:
1. Do you believe kids being really busy is a good or a bad thing? Why?

well i think its good because you'll have more exiting things to do after school

2. If you think bad, think of three solutions for this issue. If you think good, think of three ways to encourage other kids to get busier!

1. make sports uniforms really cool

2. have fun games at the end.

3. give out best player of the week certificates.

kiwi kids news featured article Protected: Plastic bags everywhere!

Critical Questions:

1. Do you think that NOT using plastic bags is important? Or do you think it’s not a good deal?

i think not using plastic bags is important because it can lead to global warming and  kill lots of wildlife. 

2. What will happen if we continue to use plastic bags? Will it affect us? Will it affect other animals? Will it affect sea creatures?

if we keep using plastic bags this place will end up in a huge plastic-covered environment and there will be no life.

3. Do you think we will ever be able to get rid of plastic bags globally?

no, because practically everything is made out of plastic and if it weren't around we would have no clothes, no shoes and heaps of other every-day uses.  

4. If you couldn’t use plastic anymore, what is the worst thing that would happen?

we would probably have no clothes or shoes or anything.

Practical Thinking Questions:

1. What is a solution to stop plastic bags from being produced? What is a solution to stop plastic being produced?

the factory's should stop making them and instead of making plastic bags they should make bags out of fabric.  

This week, try and go plastic free. At home, in your lunch, at school. Give it a go! If it is easy, well done! If it is hard, send a letter to the companies that made it hard for you. Ask your favourite brand of biscuits why they package in plastic rather than paper. Write a letter to your local MP demanding change. Let’s make this happen!

kiwi kids news- featured article computer games in the classroom?

Critical Thinking Challenges:

1. Think about a computer game you enjoy playing. What skills do you need in order to complete it or be successful at it?

i have to do writing, navigation, maths and reading.

2. How do computer game designers make games fun to play? Why do you keep playing them?

i don't know how they make computer games fun. and i play them when i am bored.

    

kiwi kids news featured article -FORTNITE -all night? 8/81/18

Critical Questions:

If this line of argument is right, what are the implications for teenagers playing? What are the implications for adults playing?

the  implications of teenagers playing are they will not get enough sleep and the implications of adults

is that they will be too tired to work and then they won't get money and if they don't get money they won't get food and if they don't get food they will die.

What would be a solution for this problem? (Other than banning Fortnite altogether!)

Who is responsible for the Fortnite Addiction in the first place and who is responsible for solving it?

a solution would be if you could play Fornite for a certain amount of time and it will log you off if you play to long. the person who is responsible for the addiction  is Darren Sugg and who can solve it? well, i guess WE can.  

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1) Imagine that the rest of the world really has forgotten New Zealand exists, what are the pros and cons of being in the world but not part of it?

A pro is we would not have to be in wars and a con is that we would not be able to go to the Olympics and other international events  

2) Why would, for example, India or China be upset if a map was made without their country on it, but map-makers are happy to forget New Zealand?

because china and India are bigger countries then new Zealand and china is where all the toys and stuff is made

3) Use a computer or by freehand, draw your own map of the world and remove a country without telling anyone. What does the map look like? Is it odd or is the missing country unnoticeable? Show it to classmates, can they recognize which country is missing?

(in top right hand corner.)

4) Research into how maps have changed and evolved over time. Look at all the changes and how map-makers have shown the world in different ways. What kinds of things do you notice? Can you spot the same countries and cities in maps from different times and places?

(done)

5) Visit worldmapswithout.nz and look at all the maps that people have made with An Important Missing Ingredient…

New Zealand!!!

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