Wednesday 12 June 2013

Save Our Sharks


 Today we were fortunate to have a fantastic shark presentation by Ben and his mom.  They spent a year in Florida and while they were there they became aware of how endangered sharks were and what we can do to save them.  Our presentation started off during our lunchtime. We watched a presentation and video and learned lots of facts about sharks!
At the beginning of the presentation Ben's mom put the time on the board.  We weren't really sure why but at the end of the presentation we found out!  Our presentation was 58 minutes long ~ we then multiplied that by 60 to get the number of seconds it was (it was 3480 seconds long).  Then we multiplied that by 3 because there are 3 sharks killed every second in the world.  We found out that during our presentation there were 10, 440 sharks killed!  We were stunned!
Meet SOS  Save Our Shark!



Did you know that there are over 100 million sharks killed every year!

Exploration time!  Time to share and chat about what we learned . . .

Look at this shark tooth!

Some of the lessons learned today. . . .
-don't eat shark fin soup
-sharks are an endangered species
-there are three sharks killed every second
-we need to protect our sharks!

Did you know that sharks are becoming an endangered species?

A HUGE thank you to Ben and his mom for a wonderful and informative presentation.  We learned a lot and had fun too!

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