Social Studies: Eco-Tourism

សួស្តី (Hello in Cambodian) This week in Social studies, we began learning about 'Eco-Tourism'.

What is Eco-Tourism?

Eco-Tourism first began in 1980s by an academic adventurer, Clause-Dieter. The first general accepted definition of Eco-Tourism is to travel relatively undisturbed or uncontaminated areas with the specific objective of studying, admiring, and enjoying the scenery and its wild plants and animals. However, more recent definition of this is has broadened the original concept. Today's definition of Eco-Tourism is also responsible to travel to the natural areas and protect the health of the Earth/the surroundings conditions. Also to decrease the damage being done to the ocean and aquatic animals that illegal fisherman targets. As well as improving the local communities around.

Why is it a growing trend?

Eco-Tourism is a growing trend because it is sustainable and produces better results for the environment as well as improving the lives of local communities. It is both profitable and sustainable. It has raised individual awareness and conserves the natural habitats and aquatic species. It also gives the benefits of building a stunning breathe-taking natural tourist-attractions destinations for people to enjoy. 

How tourism help our oceans?

Eco-Tourism helps our ocean by protecting the species that lives in there, decreasing the damage being done by illegal fishermen. Basically just helping it to produce a better-quality ocean waters along with preventing such species to become instinct etc. 

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Social Studies: Over-fishing Paragraph

Today, we were tasked to write a Lawyer paragraph stating the two long term negative impacts of over-fishing. Here's the lawyer paragraph I've written:

Over-fishing is an ongoing issue for decades that has brought many negative impacts on the world. Firstly, it can cause the overpopulation of other species. Due to over-fishing, some species may erode and eventually lead to extinction. For example, in one of the South American inlets, sharks were over-fished. Because of this, the population of jellyfish increased, causing the water to become unsafe for both the other aquatic animals and humans. Another example of a negative impact of over-fishing is that it affects the ecosystem. Over-fishing can disrupt the order of the food chain. This is because taking too many fish from the water disrupts the food chain, other creatures that depend on seafood have to change a little and get better and change their surrounding conditions (features/ qualities/ traits).  Animals may be forced to travel to distant areas to survive. When that happens, they can be hunted down or forced out of the place for not being in their natural home/place. For these reasons, we need to urgently address this issue of over-fishing. 

Social Studies: Prezi Sustainable Fishing

Hello everyone. Today I have finished one of my task in Social studies which is to create a Prezi presentation about sustainable fishing. This presentation includes 4 main sections; Commercial Fishing, By-catch, Dolphin safe labels, and Sustainable ways of fishing. Click on the little boxes on the presentation to view information for each section. That is all. I hope you like it and have a nice day. 

LINK TO MY PREZI PRESENTATION

English: Create Your Own Short Film

Hello everyone! For the past few weeks in English, we have been creating our own short film. Here's the short film I created. I hope you like it Enjoy!

Camera techniques included in this film:

Full Shot, Long Shot, Tilt, Pan, Close-up, Extreme close-up, Mid-shot.

(And plus two of my choice: Low angle and shallow focus.

Reflection Questions:

1.) Tell your readers a bit about the project you were assigned?
We were given a task to make our own short films (no more than 5 mins) in groups, re-imagining the story of The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) using specific film techniques. 

2.) What is your short film about?

My short film is about a girl who found a magical crystal ball sitting on the grass after roaming around the garden. She decided to bring it inside a special chamber. In the end, the film changed into a cold colour, signifying the crystal ball she found wasn't magical and instead was cursed.

3.) How is this a ‘re-telling of The Merchant of Venice?
I don't think my film portrayed any relation to the story of Merchant of Venice. Initially, I was going to. However, I changed my mind eventually and created something totally different in a creative way. 

4.) What 2 additional film techniques did you use? What were the intended effects of these?
The 2 additional film techniques I used was the low angle and shallow focus.

These film techniques were intended to... 

Shallow Focus - To make it have that cinematic effect and to intrigue the viewers. 

Low Angle - To show the dominance of the character

5.) What were some challenges you encountered while doing this project? What learnings did you gain from these challenges?
There were a few challenges I encountered throughout this project which the groups. I was hesitant to work with anybody in my class. Therefore, I decided to work individually. However, I realized in the end, I can't do much with making a film by myself. That is why I also got help from my sister. 

Lesson learned: 

You can't do everything by yourself, you will need to work with others to produce a better result. 

6.) What would you do differently if you were to do this project again?

I would definitely try to work with the people in my class instead of going out in my way, thinking I could do everything by myself. As well as making a script for the film. 

Finance Reflection #1 Consumerism

Talofa! We started on our new topic in Wananga revolving around Financial things. Therefore, the theme of this wananga reflection section is now changed into Financial reflection.
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Text Title: "How commercials get us to buy crap that we don't need"
Type: Video 
Text Creator: AJ+
Text purpose: To know how advertisement trick us into buying their products 

Date: June 4, 2021

Deh Video:

Literacy questions:

Everyone can benefits from this text (video) because it is good to teach people how to open their eyes and realise things that are actually deceiving them. And learning how to avoid so. 

I think this text belongs to the genre of informative genre text because it is very informative and helps people in general and spend their money wisely.