- 17% of Australian children suffer from lack of adequate food due to climate change impacts like droughts and water shortages which can cause food shortages. The 2011 Queensland banana crop was severely damaged by Cyclone Yasi resulting in higher banana prices. - Ways to prevent food shortages mentioned include sustainable soil and land management practices like limited grazing areas, transporting food between countries during shortages, and being aware of local climate conditions when growing crops. - Students discussed learning about various environmental topics like habitat loss, drought, litter and its impacts, and overpopulation of animals from their projects. They mentioned sharing what they learned with family and friends.

1. A Week in the Life
• Room 13

2. What I’ve learnt
• 17% of children in Australia are suffering from having not much food.
• In Australia climate change and water shortages influence food shortages.
• In 2011 Australia faced a shortage on bananas due to cyclone Yasi in
Queensland. Bananas price was higher as the cyclone destroyed 80% of the
banana field or of our bananas in Queensland.
• Nearly 16,000 children in the world die of hunger every day.
What I am going to do with the learning
I am going to do with the learning is tell my friends and family so they know and I would try to
spread it around the world.
WHAT TO DO TO PREVENT FOOD SHORTAGES….
Some ways to prevent food shortages is:
• Look after your soil
• Let your cattle in limited areas
• If there are any shortages; humans should transport food to the other countries
• be aware in what area you live in e.g. if you live in a dry area and plant food for people, water your
plants regularly.

3. Litter/ Rubbish
I have learnt about how rubbish can affect the
environment and water ways. And what affects leaf litter
has on water ways and lakes.
By Camden

4. Droughts
What I have learned…
I learned that droughts occur
and can stay for up 10 years.
Australia has had the worst 2
droughts called the Federation
Drought and Millennium
Drought.
 The Murray River was drying
out.

5. What I have learnt by
Samson
• I have learnt that lots of countries have been losing their rainforests/ habitats and that it’s not just the
trees and habitats getting effected it’s also the animals and plants.
• I’ve also learnt that Shrinking Habitats are getting destroyed to make new land either for housing or work
places.
• I have also learnt that lots of supplies such as food are being chopped down with the habitats
• Unfortunately some animals do not have a place to stay after their habitats get destroyed
• Most habitats that are getting destroyed in Australia are mainly in Queensland

6. Hi I’m Ruby…
My topic was how global
warming affects natural
disasters…
I really enjoyed doing this
project, it was a great
experience and I learnt a lot!
Edmodo is one of
the websites we
used a lot
throughout the
project.
It is a website
that we used so
we could
communicate with
students all
around the world!
Adelaide

7. Nuclear Energy
Hello! I am Mai. I attend Norwood Primary School in South Australia.
While working on my assignment, I gained knowledge on many aspects of nuclear energy.
Whether or not nuclear energy should become our main source of power remains a
controversial question. However, I learnt how nuclear energy is produced, and how it is a
source of energy. I have also learnt about the advantages and disadvantages of using nuclear
energy, and the worries people have of using this source because it is considered to be
dangerous. I have found out that there are currently no nuclear reactors (power plants) in
Australia, but the South Australian Prime Minister Jay Weatherill is deciding whether or not
to place a nuclear reactor in Australia.

8. What I have learnt
• I have learnt that lots of medicine, food, meat, water, wood and many more things come from
these different habitats.
• I have also learnt that most habitats are getting destroyed mainly in Queensland.

9. Hi I have enjoyed this experience I have learnt about the
situation in Thailand where in the hills they burn so that
mushrooms grow.
I learnt also that in South Australia they charge for plastic
bags each plastic bag is 10c.
I learnt that leaf litter can be such a problem to the
environment and what it does.
I didn’t know there are a variety types of litter or rubbish.
I learnt there was such thing as animal over-population.

10. What I've learnt
•No-till prevents soil erosion.
•Farmers till soil to prepare the seed bed.
•Tilled soil is at a greater risk of soil erosion.
•Soil erosion can destroy large amounts of farmland.
•In the USA just the lower Mississippi river costs more than $100
million a year to fix soil erosion.
•Other costs for soil erosion are immeasurable.
•In the 19th century in the Great Plains of the United States the dust
bowl wind tilled the topsoil and destroyed 65 million hectares of
farmland.
•Around the world soil-erosion is increasing
This is where I
live

11. What I’ve Learnt
• Australia waste about $8 billion in a year.
• Wasting food also means wasting water, energy and resources.
• The average Australian household $1,036 is thrown away each year.
What I am going to do with the learning
• I am going to tell my family and friends about what is happening.
By Daveeda

12. Hi my name is Baili.
My topic was droughts. I had a lot of fun
and learnt a lot throughout this project.
Edmodo

13. Natural Disasters

14. What I've learnt
I’ve learnt that eucalyptus trees are being threatened because of a temperature difference of 3.5
degrees.
Global warming is affecting The Great Barrier Reef by the water getting too warm.
The plants and animals are suffering because they are not used to the warm conditions.
What I'm going to do with my learning
I can beware of the global warming and its effects on plants.
And I can also tell friends and family to not drive as much to lower the effect of global warming on
plants.
Leo

15. Hi,
I’ve enjoyed every bit of this
project and I have learnt a lot
from all of the news people have
given me that relate to the topic
group I have been put in. With
the information I have found
and the information that others
have given me, I will use that
interesting info when I am
sharing information with
others.
This is a picture of a red
European fox. The red fox is a
huge threat to Australia and is
causing major issues which is
stopping the agriculture
business and butcher
businesses

16. Overpopulation of animals
My
house
me
What I’ve learnt…
What I’m going to do with my
learning…
Adelaide
(where I live)).

17. Oly