Pollution and Plants Worksheet

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🌱 WALT: We Are Learning To

Investigate how humans are part of the natural world and how our actions impact the environment and wellbeing.

📋 Part 1: Understanding Our Impact

1. What does kaitiakitanga mean?

Caring for and protecting the environment

Growing plants in gardens

Using lots of water

2. Which of these are examples of pollution that can harm plants? (Tick all that apply)

Dirty water with chemicals

Clean rainwater

Oil spills

Rubbish in soil

3. How are humans connected to the natural environment?

4. Complete this sentence: When we care for our environment, we help _______________ and _______________.

🔬 Part 2: Plant Observation Sheet

5. Before the experiment - describe your plant:

Leaf colour: The leaves look ________________

Soil smell: The soil smells ________________

Plant size: The plant is ________________

6. My hypothesis (prediction): I think pollution will ________________ because ________________

7. After watering with polluted water - what changes do you notice?

Day 1: ________________________________

Day 3: ________________________________

Day 5: ________________________________

💚 Part 3: Caring for Our World

8. List three ways you can show kaitiakitanga at school:

1. ________________________________

2. ________________________________

3. ________________________________

9. How does caring for plants and the environment connect to the Mitey values of empathy and responsibility?

10. Extension Challenge: Design your own experiment to test how something else affects plant growth. What would you test and why?

Pollution and Plants Worksheet

Pollution and Plants Worksheet

🌱 WALT: We Are Learning To

📋 Part 1: Understanding Our Impact

🔬 Part 2: Plant Observation Sheet

💚 Part 3: Caring for Our World

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