Info Report Lesson Seven 7 9 21

Hey everyone,

welcome to lesson seven of information

report writing. Today is our last lesson

before you get to hand in your completed

information reports on wombats. I'm very

excited to see what they look like and

I hope that you have enjoyed writing

them as much as I know I'll have a great

time reading them.

So today we are going to start on action.

Oh sorry, we're going to be researchers

again. We're going to seek and select the

best source for information for the task

and we're going to start with action. So

action

is your chance to tell the reader

what

needs to be done to protect the wombat,

to make sure that it is around for many,

many, many, many, more years to come.

So what action needs to be

done or taken to ensure the survival of

your wombat,

of the wombat, because

in some instances it could be simple and

other things it might be a lot more

difficult.

So I want you to use lots of nice

colourful words to help make me feel

really compassionate and sad for the

wombat and for me to want to take action

against it. So I also want you to

answer the question, what needs to change

in the world to ensure it survives for

future generations.

So,

here's a couple that I already had so

take action to protect the numbat.

What you can do, so I really like it so

it's putting the emphasis on you, the

reader like what can you do. It's making

you feel responsible for protecting the

numbat.

So you can keep an eye out for numbats

when you are traveling through

potential numbat habitats and

report any sightings. So that's really

good information for scientists to have

and if you include the date and location,

probably really great for the scientists,

and then there's a little website that

you can go to.

Build more predator-free areas for the

numbats to live

and stop habitat loss, because by

chopping down trees and clearing land

you are giving the numbats less places

to hide from their predators.

Let me get rid of my head for a second.

Here's another one from my class

sloth bears are endangered.

Great,

powerful language there. They're

endangered, this is why we have to do

something about it, they are threatened

by habitat loss and hunting.

There are two really helpful steps that

you can follow to save sloth bears. So

again you can follow, so it's making you

the reader feel

like you can do something about it.

Less habitat loss,

habitat loss is a major threat to sloth

bears and I like the use of major. So

it's telling me it's a really big

concern to the sloth bears.

If we reduce it, and I like how you use

the word we there because it's making

you feel like you can work together and

we can create a solution.

It will help to increase the population

of sloth bears so by

reducing habitat loss the population of

sloth bears will probably go up. That's

what I read when I read this,

reduce hunting, sloth bears are hunted

a lot for their shaggy black fur and

their gall bladders in for Chinese

medicine.

It is a major threat for them and if we

decline hunting that will be a huge help.

Well done!

Alright here is one on emperor

penguins.

Well as I wrote about earlier in threats,

we need to stop climate change,

overfishing and plastic pollution, but

how exactly do we stop those things?

The first thing I'm going to say about

that sentence is

it's very powerful and very dramatic, but

remember that we are writing information

reports, we're not writing persuasive

texts. So my recommendation so far on

this one is to get rid of that whole

sentence, we want the facts

and we want them nice and clear and

concise. So,

the biggest threat to get rid of probably,

just state it as it is the biggest

threat to emperor penguins is

climate change.

Eat less meat and dairy.

Then again, get rid of, you may be

wondering you go, eating

less

meat and dairy means that there's less

cows, less farts and when they drop

manure on the earth it produces methane

or greenhouse gas emissions which

contribute to climate change.

So remember state the facts.

Don't make it a persuasive device,

just an information report.

Let's move to the next part of this one.

Overfishing, getting rid of my head again.

There is one way

we can stop overfishing, we just need to

stop catching more fish that will

probably just throw back in the water.

Overfishing is just a bunch of people

who think about the future more than the

present. Like I may need to eat this fish

in December,

or when you stare at the fish in the

freezer you think I'll use it someday

again.

State the facts please,

you've got really great information in

here but I just want the facts.

Alright,

so

now it is your turn.

Pause the video

and I want you to have a go

at, your turn, how are you going to

encourage

other people that are reading this

information report

to help the wombat?

How are you going to get them to take

action?

Pause the video

and have a go.

Okay the last section that you need to

fill in before you finish your

information report

is pictures.

So,

by pictures

we want you to find some pictures of

wombats that

you think add value to your information

report.

So that they

have some meaning to it, they're not just

pictures that you think are cute. So for

example if you look down here

I have two pictures. I've got this one,

never give up on your dreams keep

sleeping and then I've got this picture of

a koala drinking cup of tea with some

sunglasses.

These pictures do not,

I repeat, do not, add value to your

information report! They have nothing to

do with

what you are trying to get across.

Okay then if you look on the right, over

here I have a couple of pictures that

add value.

So this is a picture of a koala baby

gripping onto a tree and you may be able

to integrate that into your information

report somehow and then the other

picture over here is a date labeled

diagram of a koala which can also

add value to your information report.

So please, please, please,

I don't want to see these cute little

pictures I actually want to see

pictures that add value to your

information report.

I also want to introduce to you today

photo captions. I know that in class I

said to my class about photo captions

but

let's just do a quick recap about it. So

it's a few lines of text used to explain

or elaborate on the published photos.

So for example if you look down here at

the four pictures of the koalas,

not much text is included but it tells

you the different

types of koalas. So this one's a southern

koala, this one's a northern koala

and then southern and

northern. So they look different and so

to help the reader they've put photo

captions underneath

so that they know what they're looking

at and this is just one that I put on

this picture here it's a label diagram

of a koala. Yes

I can look at that and I can know, but

perhaps it also helps me as a teacher to

know what you are looking at as well.

Alright,

it's your turn

find

three or four photos of the wombat which

will add value to your information

report,

and you need to write the photo captions

like I've said every other lesson before,

make sure it is in your own words.

Pause the video and come back once

you're done good luck.

Alright,

a couple last things,

anytime you take a picture from

somewhere don't forget to include where

you got it from, your source.

Don't forget to include that information

in your bibliography, so any pictures

that you use whether it's internet or

books

needs to be included in your

bibliography. By now I'm expecting about,

you know, five or six at least in your

bibliography.

So,

now that you have done those and you

have cut and pasted

it all into your google document

it is time to submit your completed

information reports on

wombats.

I just want to say thank you very much

for all your hard work completing this

and, like I said before, I'm really,

really looking forward to reading them

and hopefully learning some new

information about wombats.

But well done

and until tomorrow when we start a new

topic,

have fun learning and I'll see you soon

bye!