🗳️ Week 1: Environmental Problem Ranking Cards

Unit 9: Environmental Mātauranga — Protecting Our Taiao
Cut out these cards and vote on which environmental problems are most urgent and fixable at your school.

📋 Voting Instructions:
  1. Cut out all the problem cards
  2. Each team member gets 3 voting dots to place on cards
  3. Vote based on: How urgent? and Can we actually fix this?
  4. Count the votes and rank problems from highest to lowest
  5. Choose your team's focus problem for the unit project

🚨 High Impact Problems

💧 Water Pollution
Contaminated streams, ponds, or waterways affecting aquatic life and drinking water safety. Wai kino
HIGH IMPACT
🌡️ Climate Impact
Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, extreme weather affecting local ecosystem. Taiao huringa
HIGH IMPACT
🦅 Biodiversity Loss
Disappearing native species, habitat destruction, invasive weeds choking native plants. Rauropi ngaro
HIGH IMPACT
☠️ Soil Contamination
Chemicals, heavy metals, or pollutants in soil affecting plant growth and food safety. Oneone kino
HIGH IMPACT

⚠️ Medium Impact Problems

🗑️ Waste Management
Poor recycling systems, overflowing bins, litter, lack of composting facilities. Para whakatikatika
MEDIUM IMPACT
⚡ Energy Waste
Inefficient lighting, heating, cooling systems wasting energy and increasing emissions. Hiko maumau
MEDIUM IMPACT
🌊 Water Waste
Leaking taps, poor irrigation, wasteful practices depleting precious water resources. Wai maumau
MEDIUM IMPACT
🌿 Poor Landscaping
Exotic plants only, no native species, poor habitat for birds and insects. Tipu taiao kore
MEDIUM IMPACT
🌬️ Air Quality
Vehicle emissions, dust, poor ventilation affecting breathing and health. Hauhunga kino
MEDIUM IMPACT
🌧️ Erosion Issues
Poor stormwater management causing soil erosion, flooding, sediment runoff. Oneone kore
MEDIUM IMPACT

✅ Lower Impact (But Still Important)

🌱 No Food Gardens
Missing opportunities for sustainable food production, composting, student learning. Māra kai kore
LOWER IMPACT
🏃 Transport Emissions
Too many cars dropping students off, lack of bike paths, poor public transport. Waka kino
LOWER IMPACT
🔊 Noise Pollution
Excessive noise affecting wildlife behavior, student concentration, community peace. Hauongo maha
LOWER IMPACT
🎓 Lack of Education
Students and staff unaware of environmental issues, no sustainability programs. Mātauranga kore
LOWER IMPACT

🎯 Voting Results

🥇 Top 3 Most Urgent Problems:

  1. _________________________________
  2. _________________________________
  3. _________________________________

🔧 Top 3 Most Fixable Problems:

  1. _________________________________
  2. _________________________________
  3. _________________________________
🏆 Our team's chosen focus problem:


Why this problem? (Explain your reasoning)