Lately in Te Ngahere we have been learning about the ngahere ecosystem. For example, we learnt about mutualism. Mutualism is when a bird eats a berry from a tree, then the bird flies around and eventually poops out the seed with a bit of soil, which plants a new tree in another area. So, the bird benefits from the tree and the tree benefits from the bird.
To show our learning, we made a minecraft world where we had to make an ecosystem containing consumers, decomposers, producers, and pollinators. Before we made our minecraft world, we took a walk up school road to see a proper ngahere. After we had our walk up the ngahere, we started to create our ngahere ecosystem.
A problem I faced was when the owner of the world was away. So we couldn’t do anything, because we needed the owner to open up the world. Another thing I found tricky was making birds like tui’s and kereru’s.
While we were building in minecraft, I learnt that there are more pollinators other than bees. Such as tui, butterflies and so much more. I think in my group I don’t necessarily have a favourite thing about my world i’m more so proud on how my group worked together.
I hope when people watch my screen recording they will know what decomposer consumers and producers are.