Climate Change - Our Biggest Challenge
Climate change isn’t only about warmer weather.
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Series: School Journal Level 4 June 2018
Reading year level: 8
Category: Non-fiction
Topics: carbon dioxide, challenges, change, climate, climate change, climate-change refugees, eco-systems, emissions, environment, erosion, extreme weather, Generation Zero, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, Jan Wright, Kiribati, methane, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, problems, sea levels, temperature, weather
Climate Change - Our Biggest Challenge
Words by Tricia Glensor
A rise in the temperature means more extreme weather, including wild storms and heatwaves.
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School Journal Level 4 June 2018
In this journal are three stories (Kāhuipani; Something Alive; The Village), one poem (Giving My Father Frights), and three articles (Ben Hawke - Mosgiel's Meteorologist; Climate Change - Our Biggest Challenge; Pandemic - The Deadly Flu of 1918).
1 of 8Ben Hawke - Mosgiel's Meteorologist
When thirteen-year-old Ben Hawke says things like “precipitation” and “atmospheric pressure”, his friends groan and say, “Speak English!”
2 of 8Dive
Shelly is forced to brave sea snake infested waters when she drops her phone in the river.
3 of 8Giving my Father Frights
We discover no end of windows of opportunity for giving my father frights.
4 of 8Pandemic - The Deadly Flu of 1918
Most students are aware of New Zealand’s participation in the First World War, but few will know of the flu pandemic that swept across the world in its aftermath.
5 of 8Something Alive
Jem Yoshioka was born and bred in New Zealand to New Zealand-born parents, so technically she only belongs to one place.
6 of 8The Village
Looking for adventure on a family holiday with her parents, Ava wonders off to explore some nearby ruins.
7 of 8Kāhuipani
Based on a true story. Kāhuipani details the journey of two children to the Tuakau bridge to find Te Puea.
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