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reading counting koura activities 1. what are the five things that scientists wanted to find out? Were koura live. What their favorite foods are. What things are harmful to them. Wow many koura their are. How old they are.

Write four Questions you have to know the answers to them. Give them to another person in your group to answer.

a)Why is it necessary for koura to hide ? If they don’t hide they will get hurt or eaten.

b) What colour is a fresh water koura ? The fresh water koura colour is brownish grayish.

c) How do they find their way around if they are blind? The find their way around because they have antennas type things that can feel its way around

4.The sinusitis tried many ways to count the koura before finding a sulition that worked .Explain the methods used and the final solution including diagrams and labels. The sulition that worked was a traditional trap called a Tau Arawa people have used them for hundreds of years. Maori new that the koura like to hide among the weeds the gathered broken fern and twisted it together and when everything was ready the dropped it in to the lake. Bottom and left them their the koura thought that the ferns were perfect places to hide and they also trap food and they soon moved in .And when people wanted them for special meals they just raise the bundles to the surface just before lifting the bundle from the water they put a flax net and they shook it and all the koura dropped in hoping to go back in to the water but they were trapped in a net.

Use one of the headings and trigger words from one paragraph to rewright the paragraph in your own words. for practice you could also try another.

us one of the headings and trigger words from one paragraphs in your own words. for practice you could also try another.

a)molting molting is when they shed their skin and if they dont hide when they are molting they will get hurt or eaten or killed.

in order to survive in year 2050 the koura has to adapt to a changing habitat explain its habitat ,phicaial fetchers ,feeding behavior and social behavior ,predators,reproduction and relationship to humans.

wacky animal my koura will have three eyes and only 2 and a 1/2 legs with a bushy tail well cleaned sunnies with a pimp hat and his name is donny.

7.recreat the life cycle of the koura

the egg hatches in the pond/lake and has been a baby than in a while he will go and become an adult and be so cool at school.

8. information web the physical features and behaviors of the koura ? the physical features are their nippers, antennas and they are basically their physical featchers. their natural behavior is to hide so they dont get hurt killed or eaten.

q.how safe are our our koura? A. very high danger from predators

I think that our koura are in very high danger not only from predators but from. Dried up creeks to poor water qualities too.

10 extinction ratings: very close to extinction: because poor water qualities taking the wrong size home to eat and no taking care of our streams and stuff.

koura upgrade - over coming threats

make some improvements to the courts fetchers and behavior to help it survive these these changes in their environment are caused buy predators including humans.

we could clean out the streams and make it a better place for them to live and put like cameras monertring the stream to check if they are measuring the koura and stuff like that. and i mean we could make a breeding ground for them and not let any on take them and put delay monitors on them.

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Action plan - help koura survive in their own habitat.

the will not be able to survive in their own habitat because we are polluting their streams by putting rubbish etc and just not keeping the streams clean.

=Run for the trees=

What happened to Ben at school? Why did it upset him.
===when Ben went to school he had to do his speech Ben’s mum made shore that Ben knew his speech off by heart that he could say it in his sleep but Ben knew he would mess it up he all ways did. Ben was up set because his mum would be upset but she just said oh well it not the end of the world like she all ways did.===

Q1 Were do you think Ben’s dad is, and what do you think has happened to his family, how do you think Ben feels about this?
===I think that Ben’s dad is in London because Ben's dad felt that he could not coup with having a son with Dyslexia so he left Maraca with Ben i think that Ben has so many emotions for his father he may be thinking if he met his dad so many questions would come up like why did you leave me and mum, did you not want me as your son just because i have Dyslexia dose not mean Im not a good son.===

How does Ben look different from his mother and uncle Rick?
===Ben looks different from his mother and uncle Rick because he takes his looks from his dad so he has black hair green eyes and tan skin while his mum & uncle rick have orange hair and blue eyes and fair skin.===

What was Ben scared he would find as he searched the house?
===Ben was scared he would find his uncle Rick in the bathroom hanging in the shower or bath dead because that is what happens in all the horror movies as he moved though the house calling uncle rick several times after every calling... no reply===

Chapter Five - Helpful or Hindering?
===How do the adults in this chapter treat Ben? The adults in this chapter treat Ben really bad because when he had lost his backpack he went and asked them if they had see his pack and they all looked at him as if they were brain washed and didn’t even say no dear but I will keep my eye out for it.=== ===What did Ange do to help him - on the ferry and at Picton? What do you think she is up to? Ange told him to go to the counter and ask for it so he went and asked for it but nothing i think that Ange is trying to make friends with him because the weasel and the owl put her up to it so they could lead him to a trap.===

Where do you think all her money came from? I think all her money came from her mum so she could make it to her dads house in nelson.
===Why is Ben so worried when he spots The Owl and The Weasel with the Police man? What do you think the police symbolize to him? I think that Ben is so worried because he thinks that they will tell the police that Ben is alone and he will be taken away and he will be a failure to his uncle rick.===

how dose ben react when he releases uncle ricks tape is ruined,what ruined it? ben feels sick and studied it was all the glue that spilt over it.
===why didn’t ben want to hitchhike?what does he think that his mother would do if she found out? ben didn’t want to hitchhike because he didn’t want to get killed and he knew that his mum would shoot him.=== ===what happened to ange when the accepted the ride in the ute?and how did ben save her? ange was getting felt up and ben couldn’t handle it so he pretended he needed to go to the toilet and so the stranger booted the both out of the car.=== ===What place did ben think of when he thought of hell? why? when ben thought of hell he thought of his mental school that his mum put him in he hated this school because he hated being around people with problems and he just wanted to go back to his old school.===

Why was Archie so angry about the logging? Who was he angry at?
===Archie was angry at the protesters because they were stopping his job and making him have not allot of income to take care of his family. Archie thought that the protesters were no good townie bastards===

Who did Archie think was controlling the logging?who did he think should control it?
===Archie thought the no good townie bastards were controlling the logging by crowding around and not letting him get on with his job. Archie thought that the people in the logging company should control it not the townies.===

What is Jeremy Trainor up to? Why does Ben have to get the disk back to Wellington by Monday morning?
===jeremy is trying to make it like uncle rick had the the bomb not him and trying to obey all the trees as well and the disk has to back by monday morning because it had all the proof on in that says that the eco people are up to.===

i think that all the money came from the old mans Sid
===Why is Ben so worried when he spots The Owl and The Weasel with the policeman? What do you think the police symbolize to him?ben was so worried when he saw them because they were with the police and took ange away .===

How much did the taxi cost to take Ben home? Where did he hide the disk once he got there? it cost ben $30.00 and hid the disk in the cat feeder
===How did the two men get into the house? What did The Owl try to bribe Ben with? How did Ben free himself from the handcuffs? the to men got into the house because he always leaves the door unlocked. The owl tried to bribe ben with the blue lady doll and some money. Ben used his had saw to take them off .===

What was the code word Ben had to ask the lawyer for? What did it mean? What was the original purpose of the code word?
===What the code name word was that Ben had to ask the lawyer for was Aratamus. What it meant was the name of the god that protected children. The original purpose for the code word was being able to get into cars with strangers but if they didn’t say that then they couldn’t get in. The route that Ben took to get to the lawyer was behind a concrete wall down Palliser road, past the old Monastery and then down into the heart of Mount Victoria. What made the route difficult was him trying to avoid being seen by anybody that shouldn’t spot him. Ben hurt his arm when a big wind came and pushed him onto the ground and he saved himself with them out.===

What happened to Jeremy Trainor after Uncle Rick’s information came out? How did this save the trees? How did Ange get out of jail in Westport?
===Jeremy Trainor was he resigned after the information came out that Uncle Rick had collected. This saved the trees by the information making the government stop logging. Ange got out of jail in WestPort by her dad getting her off the hook with the police.===

Epilogue - Celebrate Your Strengths.
===How does Ben feel about his mother marrying Con? What does he think about Con now? Ben feels happy that his mum is marring con because the are getting married and ben had to do a speech at his mums wedding and he was scared because of all the things that have happened in the past.===

Where was the wedding taking place? What time of day was it?the wedding was taking place at the tanical garden at night time.
===How did Ben feel about giving a speech? What was the main message in it? Why did his mother cry? How did Ben feel when Ange arrived?ben felt scared about doing the speech because of what happened when he was at school.The main message in the speech was about his mum helping him with things. Ben felt happy and relived when Ange arrived.===