water unit

WATER UNIT

Hi! this is where all my work over term 1 is. First down here is my explanation text that i have been working on for 4 to 5 weeks, it is about what happens when precipitation (rain) falls on the school roof. I hope you enjoy!




You may be wondering did the teachers make any rules to writing the explanation texts. Well the answer is yes. They had quite a few actually and they all put on something called the explanation rubric. Feel free to have a look and compare my explanation with the rubric.




water unit excursion

In term 1 we went on an excursion to the western treatment plant to look at how the sewerage and sewage system works, and to get some facts for writing our explanation texts. When we first got there, we went inside to the main building, and we couldn't believe our eyes, there was a massive map of melbourne made out of glass on the floor, and the first thing we noticed was that the western treatment plant was exactely the same size as port philip bay. Once we had a look at that we moved onto a display that explained how the sewerage system works. I think this helped me alot with my explanation text for it had facts on the sides of it. After that we went on to what was called the river story. It was about a river that kept on getting polluted by the characters in the story (us). The set up was there was a bowl of water on a table cloth on the floor (river) and we were handed out these containers that had stuff that polluted the river. I was a city person so when my turn in the story came I had to open my container and put whatever was in there into the water, and guess what came out, smoked cigarettes!!! Then I had to stir it round although I don't see why I needed to stir it anyway. Next we went on the tour where we saw how sewage is treated, I got most out of this for my explanation text.