Reading Activity - Batten - The lightest wood in the world!

                         The Lightest wood in the World!

Q&A

What kind of seed do Whau trees have? ( What do they look like?)

Tiny brown seeds that are spiky/prickly.

How do the seeds travel around?

By Humans! Humans pick them up/off and through around.

What are one of the reasons for there not being many Whau trees left?

What did the boys do to prevent this from happening?

Because the possums eat it.

Explain why you think the raft made out of pine sank when lemons were added?

Because the pine was soaked and still wet not dried.

How much does one pine weight the same as?

Where In the book does it say this?

Page 21, When the boys were weighting one piece of pine and it weights the same

at 3 pieces of Whau!

What kind of raft did Jed and Colin make?

They made a Dry Whau raft.

How many lemons were out on Colin and Jeds raft?

What happened when they were put on?

4. The raft was able to hold 4 lemons without floating below the water.

Why did the raft made out of dry Whau float high but the raft made out

of green Whau float just below the water?

The dry Whau raft floated higher because it was dry and light, and the green

Whau floated below the water was because it was wet/soaked in the inside.  

What wood is the title of the text referring to?

The Lightest Wood in the world. ( Whau Tree )

What are some actions you can do to help save the Whau tree?

You can kill the possums. Grow the Whau trees somewhere else.

Build an Attack/Fence.

Activity 1.

Write a response/email to Jill MacGregor about you

opinion from the text you read.   

Dear Jill MacGregor

Hi Jill MacGregor, Your book about the lightest wood in the world,(the Whau tree)

is a really interesting text. It had lots of information about the Whau and Pine tree.

Also there are a few questions about why you wrote this particular

text instead of writing about another tree. Some of my questions are

Why did you write this text?

What was the purpose behind this text?

Did you have to do much research about the tree?

Who are the character in the text?

All of these questions are just to help get why you wrote the text.

Well apart from that Your text is a very nice and simple text

for young kids/students but it also does have lots of information

for older kids/teenagers/students.

Activity 2!

Create work/activity.

Whau Tree Poster & Facts. (Create Activity)