During the week of the 7th April, Year 3 took part in Sustainability Week. We did a range of different activities across the curriculum linked to sustainability.
Monday’s theme was Active Adventure Travel. We created bar charts to show how each of us travel from our habitats to school. We then looked at animal footprints and how far each animal travels from their habitat, we used this information to work out which animal we are in terms of travel.
If we walk from our habitats to school then we were like the long-distance walking animals such as a grey squirrel or fox. 🐿️🦊
If we drove and then walked from our habitats to school then we were like the medium-distance walking animals such as a hedgehog or rabbit. 🦔🐇
If we drove from our habitats to school then we were like the short-distance walking animals such as a wood pigeon or frog.🐦🐸
Next, we designed our own, sustainable, mode of transport to get us from home to school! 🚲🛴👟🛼🦽
Tuesday’s theme was Plant-Powered Diet, we looked at food miles and where our food comes from. This linked nicely to looking at transport and our carbon footprint from yesterday.
We looked at a range of different food labels and had to use the iPads to research which country each food or ingredient came from. We then recorded these on our world maps. Once we had done this, we then googled how many flight miles had been travelled to bring the food from the country it was grown in to the UK. If we had a list of different ingredients from one food label, we then had to use a
calculator to find the total amount of flight miles that product had travelled. ✈️
Our next task was to design a British menu to limit the amount of food imported from other countries. We used a seasonal calendar to help us identify which foods grow in the UK to ensure our menus were locally sourced. 🍓🍎🍏🇬🇧
We created our menus while watching WALL-E which is a film set in the year 2110, where the amount of waste created by humans make life unsustainable on Earth, forcing the human race to leave Earth. 🤖🗑️
On Wednesday and Thursday we used our estimating skills to estimate the weight, height and volume of Melman the Giraffe. We have used lots of our science and maths knowledge to predict and then measure to find the answers to our questions. We have lots of amazing mathematicians in Year 3 and we estimated that Melman will hold roughly 1840 bottle tops when full! 🦒♻️