Animal+lovers



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As a group we decided to focus our inquiry task on animals so we also decided to focus on the S.P.C.A in our community. The S.P.C.A help animals that are sick or unwanted or are badly hurt.We want to donate old towels, newspapers and blankets to the SPCA if we can. We also want to go and see what they do in our community.We believe they are a very important to many people in our community.

<3 We really love animals!! <3
Our group contains Amy, __Daniel__, Kyung Seo, Tom (alphabetical order) we are the animal lovers because we love animals.

Our Questions

our community? -DANIEL || We think the SPCA look after lost,unwell pets and they feed them and try to find homes for them. || They give animals a proper shelter and home for all their animals and teach them good behavior skill. They feed them well and try their best to find them a decent home. || end up in the SPCA || Most animals get abused by their owners or end up lost. Thats when the SPCA can step in and prosecute owners who do hurt animals. If people find lost animals they can give them to the SPCA to find a new home for them. || how many are there in New Zealand? -AMY || We think the SPCA was found in the 1960's and there is about 10 in New Zealand in the major cities. || The SPCA was founded in 1883 on Wednesday the 10th of October and has been running ever since. They have been running now for 125 years. || - DANIEL || We think that most people that work there will get paid for working there but there probably are volunteers as well. || The people who work there all the time do get paid but there are sometimes occasional volunteers that don't get paid and just do it because they want to. || and give them food and a safe environment? - TOM || We think that they do as they love animals and love looking after them so they would give them a safe environment. || Yes they do care for them and also give them a safe environment The SPCA follow these rules give their animals to?- AMY || We think they give it to everyone who wants a animal from them but might check on them to see they are looking after then properly. || They try to reassure that the long term adoptions are of suitable animals are going well. So they do sort of give a say in who they give there animals too. ||
 * No: || Question: || Hypothesize: || Actual answers: ||
 * 1 || What does the SPCA do in
 * 2 || How many animals does one SPCA look after?- KYUNG SEO || We think there is about 200 of different animals like dogs,cats, birds, bunnies and hamster and each animal will have different types as well. || Over 5000 animals get adopted each year. ||
 * 3 || How do most animals end up in the SPCA? - TOM || We think animals that are unwanted, hurt or lost
 * 4 || When was the SPCA founded and
 * 5 || Do the people in the SPCA work for money or do the volunteer?
 * 6 || How do they pay for all the stuff they need for the animals?- KYUNG SEO || We think the SPCA would get donations from generous people and get funded by the government. || The SPCA is not government funded it relies on donations from people who want to help them. ||
 * 7 || Do they care for the animals
 * proper and sufficient food and water
 * adequate shelter
 * Treat them gently to lower distress ||
 * 8 || Do they have a say in who they



This brain storm is about the SPCA and the stuff we know about them.

This brain storm is about all the community issues in our community that we got to chose from..

media type="youtube" key="VagJ2ZP-yeU" height="344" width="425" Hilarious.This is a youtube clip about animal abuse, it shows a man kicking a dog. This is unacceptable! It may have been funny to the owner but it is not funny at all.Over 2000 animals are abused each year. It is a serious problem that we need to stop. The SPCA have tried their best to stop this over the years but it still keeps happening.The SPCA can help those animals who are being abused and they can also take the animals away from their owners if they are caught doing such things like this.

__This is our Inquiry Task__ = = =__Fertile questions - How can I make a positive change to the community I live in?__= = = =TASK OUTLINE=

1. Brainstorm issues in the community and how these issues impact on the community. Discuss how they can be solved. 2. From this brainstorm, identify one issue that you as a group are going to investigate. 3. Choose a group name related to your issues. Modify the navigator link. 4. Make a title of this issue on your home page. 5. Add some pictures to your home page which reflect this issue. 6. Develop questions that will help you find out more about your chosen area of concern. 7. Hypothesize solutions and answers to your questions 8. Develop an action plan. Your action plan must include the following information:
 * 1) ISSUE:
 * 2) WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO:
 * 3) HOW YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT
 * 4) WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHICH JOBS
 * 5) TIMELINE
 * 6) A SPACE FOR DAILY REFLECTION
 * 7) A SPACE FOR TEACHER FEEDBACK AND FEEDFORWARD
 * 8) AN EVALUATION OF THE ACTION AND THE EFFECT
 * 9) PEER REFLECTION
 * 10) INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION

__**The issue we will be working on ?**__
1. We as a group chose to do the SPCA as we are all animal lovers. We believe the SPCA plays a BIG role in our community helping our pets.

__**What are we going to do ?**__
2. We want to go see the SPCA and find out what they do in our community and hopefully donate some items that are needed such as newspaper, cat and dog food. We are also making a slide show to show what they do and what we have learnt.

__**How are we going to do it ?**__
3. We would call the SPCA or email them and get permission to go see the animals. We would also organize to donate newspaper, cat and dog food by getting boxes, asking Mr Roper if we are allowed then asking our class and team and other students to donate the items that are needed.

__**Who will be responsible for the jobs**__
4. Daniel - will do our slide show with input from the the rest of us. Amy - will type everything up and working on our action plan with help from the rest of us. Kyung Seo - will write up look for the answers to our question and help Daniel and Amy. Tom -will also write up look for the answers to our question and help Daniel and Amy.

**__Time line__**
5. Day 1. Get permission from Mr Roper and probably Mr Read to go to the SPCA and ask about donating the things. Day 2. Once we have been told we are allowed to go to the SPCA we will then as a group type up an email to send to the SPCA and ask for their permission to go to the SPCA. Day 3. Make boxes and write up information on to word to print for front and back of boxes so that people who want to donate things can see what to donate. Day 4. Talk to our class and team about what we are doing with the boxes then ask help donate. Day. 5 Hopefully by now we would of heard from the SPCA so we would know of a day to go see them then discuss the day with Mr Roper so that we can go visit. If not we would give them a call and explain what we are doing. Day 6. Check the boxes for things that people have donated and keep encouraging people to donate items. Day 7. Check that it is still okay to visit the SPCA and tell our class last day is tomorrow, need all donations tomorrow. Day 8. Today is the day we actually go to the SPCA, get the boxes and take the things to the SPCA to donate it.

Your peer and self reflections can be presented in any format. Please speak to your teacher about this.

You need to open a RESOURCE FOLDER in your class folder on student disk.

HAVE FUN AND MAKE A WORTHWHILE DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY.


 * **__Reflection__** || Date ||
 * Today we edited our page and began with our task, we have an very clear idea on what we are going to do for this task. We also spoke to Mr Roper and discussed our community issue. || 9/9/08 ||
 * Today we did all the questions and hypothesized them and add our brainstorms. || 13/10/08 ||
 * Today we got pictures and discussed our action plan as a group, we also got a background thanks to Joon for helping us and we had a look on you tube for some clips about animals and the SPCA. || 15/10/08 ||
 * Today we found a new awesome background, planned some of our ideas and answered most of our questions and added a you tube clip about animal abuse. || 21/10/08 ||
 * Today we finished all our answers and began our time line and our keynote. ||  ||
 * Today we finished our time line and keynote, adding pictures and other information. ||  ||

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 * Mr Roper come tell us what you think of our page here ok ? || Teacher reflection. ||  ||   ||
 * Ok here is me telling you what I think of your page, it;s great. I really like the way that you all came up with some questions and researched the questions. Your action plan seems well under way and I can see clearly how you plan to do this. Make sure that you are asking the right people for permission to put this action plan into action. Who will you need to talk to from SPCA about donating things. Who will you need to talk to from school to get permission to go to the SPCA?