Moments in Time - opportunities to learn.

 Random Opportunities to Learn

Opportunities to learn and experience things can appear from nowhere at school and at home.

Mr Bach took these pictures, while kayak fishing on Lake Rotoiti, of linesmen working on a major power line structure that spans Rotoiti at the Okere Arm. The men were clambering up and down the structure like monkeys.

Were they just checking something or repairing a fault?

How do the lines carry electricity to people?

Where does the energy come from?

This term we are studying sustainability and using sustainable practices for the good of all environments on Earth.

Clean energy sources are important to sustainable practice?

So are our sources clean, all of them?

Watch out for opportunities to teach children when you are out as a family. Feed their minds and ask them questions. They may also want to come and share the news of an interesting encounter or event at news time.
Events like this can also be subjects to write about at home or at school.

To be a linesmen requires a lot of skill and knowledge, but above all nerves of steel, with no fear of heights.