Mr. Wythe's class 3 : Nearly a thousand bears are farmed in South Korea for their bile

 So much has been done already to help Moon Bears by Animals Asia. But still there is much that needs to be done! The biggest bear farm in Korea is near Mr Wythe's hometown of Seosan!

We in Class 3 would like to see this farm closed also!

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/04/201341973154812624.html
Nearly a thousand bears are farmed in South Korea for their bile, which is used in traditional medicine. But politicians are now looking at a bill that would phase out the industry once encouraged by the government. Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports from Dangjin, South Korea.

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Mr. Haley's Class 9: Littering - throwing paper and waste on the ground.

We are Class 9. We are Sung Woo, Hyo Guk and Eui Jong.

Litter is very bad for our country and the planet. It is a terrible problem. If people would just put trash into the can, we can clean up our land. Litter makes our city and country look dirty. We need to have pride about our city, and if we do we will not put trash on the ground. If every person would do their part and put trash in the can we would have a very clean country. To do this, each person will do very little, but the result would be big and beautiful "Please do your part!" Don't litter.

Question: Does Korea have enough garbage cans? Is it easy to find them on the street?

Mr. Martin's Class 2: Why are cell phones so dangerous for driving?

Today our class will tell you about Why cell phones are so dangerous for driving.

Questions:  

How would you feel if you hurt someone on the sidewalk because you wanted to check a text message that wasn't really important?  Isn't your life and the other peoples life important?

How would you feel if someone you loved died because of a driver checking Facebook?

When you use cell phones if you are driving, accidents Will happen.

Some people did an experiment about this problem.

In the experiment, some volunteers perform a simple simulated driving task:

Like this, talking on phone in a car driving is very dangerous.  See how it becomes more dangerous with more things you do.

The experimenters ask this: But does any conversation lead to driving errors? In a second experiment, Strayer and Johnson used a similar apparatus, but instead of using red and green lights, they had participants drive over “easy” and “difficult” courses. The volunteers were first asked to simply repeat words to the experimenter over the telephone.

This is the most dangerous thing to do on your phone while driving.

Using cell phone

 - Texting or using Internet

 - Dialing

 - Talking

 - Reaching for object other than cell phone

Use of cell phones while driving, such as drunk driving has danger!
Using a cell phone while driving is dangerous, research results are coming out in developed countries.
A German team is a phone call while driving, compared to the normal operator brakes and steering operation error, lane violation, signal violation of safety rules, such as 30 times higher probability of violation of the study was also presented.

From now on, let's refrain from using cell phones while driving. Because the use of mobile phones while driving is one of the guiding last journey to you!


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Picture Sources : http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2005/06/15/why-are-cell-phones-so-dangero/