Changing our future

Aim; To look at the different ways we can prevent climate change in the future.

Changing Our Future

Name 3 fossil fuels?
Coal
Oil
Gas
What is the cost?
Carbon Dioxide
The CO2 level has soured since when?
Industrial revolution
What are the effects in the UK?

1.    many Heatwaves
2.    Warm weathers 
3.   Worldwide species could disappear.

How many climate refugees will there be in Britain by 2050?

Millions of climate refugees in the world.

When will Fairborn be flooded?

In the next 26 years, Fairborn will be flooded.

What are some of the other things that will be 'swallowed by the waves'?

1.    1.5 millions of homes will be flooded by 2080
2.     100.000 erosions will be slid into the sea
3.  100 toxic sites will also be released into the sea.

How can we stop climate change?

1.    Replacing and reducing gas boilers.
2.    We would have to reduce the use of cars and plant 1.5 billion trees.
3.   Running the cars on solar and hydro battery.  

What ideas are school children having about climate change?

1.    They were protesting about climate change.
2.   Some kids are also not wanting to have kids because they don't want their kids to live in a polluted life, or having to pick up other people's trash.
3.  Thinking it's good that social media is also helping.
4. Turning off engines - less use of cars or automobiles.
5. Politicians having to speak up and it is only the youths.

What is the atmosphere called?

a Waste Dump

What is the last statement the reporter made?

We know what we need to do, we have got the technology
. What we lack is political will.

How is sea-level rise going to affect us in NZ

What places will be affected?

Different parts differently - various places in NZ

What else do we need to think about?

People in general about developing new areas for people to live in which is away from 50 to a hundred cm of sea level.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

The Pacific Islands will be affected badly.

What does this do to our drinking water?

Saltwater invading our drinking water since we get our water supply from the undergrounds which are close to the coastal.

What are the main concerns?

1. Coastal flooding  
2. Coastal erosions.

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1. Take up less use of fossil fuels like not using public transport or car, things like that. 
2. If your building a house try to build uses less energy so we can use less energy.   
3. Buy efficient cars like electric cars that don't need/that much oil,   

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no silver bullet solution.

What is the mix of things we need to start doing?

1.   Using renewable 
2.   Getting away from vehicles that depend on fossil fuels.
3.  Use solar heating.

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   I always turn off the light when I leave a room.
2.  I sometimes walk to school and back home.
3.  I take quick showers instead of baths because it takes up lots of water.

My Investigation

Where does our food come from?

• Choose your favorite food.

Kimchi Soup

1. Upload a picture of it.

1. Draw a picture of it on A4.    

On your blog answer the following questions.

• Where does the food come from (e.g. is it from another province or country, was it purchased or made locally)? 

Korea 

• How many kilometers away did the food travel to get to you?

9,946 Kilometers 

• What are the main ingredients? 

Kimchi
Kimchi Brine
Pork Belly/Shoulder
Tofu

• How is the food packaged? 

Kimchi and the other ingredients are normally found at the local stores in plastic or foil. But the Kimchi soup itself is found at restaurants in bowls or it would be made at home. - In my opinion their no packaging for the Kimchi Soup itself.

• What resources do you need to produce this food item (e.g. land, water, oil, food, etc.)? 

Water, Fire

• Would this item have been processed? 

Yes, because kimchi actually needs to be cooked first to be cooked with the stew otherwise it would not have a rich flavor.

• Is there anything unique or significant about the food item (e.g. fair-trade, local)? 

Yes, Because it is loved locally in Korea and also even the rich have it inexpensive restaurants which normally thins kind of food would not really be welcomed to expensive restaurants around the world. It is a delicacy in Korea.

• What else do you notice about this food that affects its climate friendliness? 

It needs gas to boil but apart from that, I think it is climate-friendly.

• Do you think this food is climate-friendly (Circle)?       YES   NO 

• Why?

Because it is a food that had organic items apart from meat but it also needs fire but this in only the portion of the ingredients all the rest are organic.

• If no, what would be a better alternative?  

Science - Wind

Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by the direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	The wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and lose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIALS

1.  4 straws
2.  4 disposable/Styraphome cups (or cups you can poke holes through)
3.  A pencil with an eraser on the end
4.  Tape
5.  Pin

STEPS

1.   Get all your materials ready to start creating
2.   Grab two straws and insert one straw into the other creating a long stick and do it to the other two.
3.   Tape both long straws together creating an x or + sign.
4.   Grab a pin and push it through both straws to keep it secure.
5.   Under your cross or plus you will see a bit od the pin poking out grab your pencil and push the eraser bit of the pencil into the pin.
6. Now you have created yourself an Anemometer

Once you have made an anemometer we are going to record the wind speed.

Group size: 5

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

• Timekeeper
• Counter
• Recorder
• Anemometer Manager
• Wind generator

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the timekeeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. If possible, repeat the above step four (4) times and record the average number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins using the table below.

You will need to create the wind yourself by blowing. Get 4 different wind speeds by blowing.

You will need to time them and count the number of spins.

	Time Interval	Number of Spins
1.	10 sec	15
2.	10 sec	14
3.	10 sec	16
4.	10 sec	12

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 

For the first one, we got many spins because we were in front of a wind tunnel once it came out it forced a lot of wind when it came out of the tunnel. For the third one we also got many spins because it was quite a windy day and we faced it the way the wind was coming.

CONCLUSION:

I think it was really fun doing this experiment and making it, I never knew about this stuff and thought it was cool when we had to test the wind we started to develop thinking on how we can get more spins. We also watched a video that surprised us on how tough and strong the wind is in many other countries it was actually surprising. I am really happy we don't have strong winds here in NZ.

Hurmanu - Solar energy

Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1. Cups - x4 
2. Water
3. Tin Foil
4. Sheets of white paper - x2 
5. A sheet of black paper - x1
6. Thermometer
7. A large cup - x1
8. Heat Lamp

Steps

1.   Grab all your materials and place them down on a spacious surface.
2.   Fill all small cups to the line on the cup if there is no line fill up at least 2/3 of the cup with tap water.
3.   Place a larger cup over one of the cups to create a greenhouse effect.
4.   Put 1 cup on a white paper, another on another white paper, and the other two with one on tin foil and the other on black paper. - (Make sure the cup with the larger cup on top is on a white paper.
5.  Let the cups be in a hot environment if not use heat lamps.
6.  For research purposes, you can measure the temperature with a thermometer every 15 minutes.

Which surface conducts/attracts the most heat?

Time + temperature	Cup 1 White paper	Cup 2 White paper+ plastic.	Cup 3 Black paper	Cup 4 Tinfoil
0	12 d	12 d	12 d	12 d
15 minutes	15 d	17 d	21 d	25 d
30 minutes	17 d	18 d	21 d	23 d
45 minutes	18 d	19 d	20 d	22 d

Findings:

I think we succeeded but some of the temperatures went up and down which confused in our opinion maybe it was because we were in the environment that was near the door. the warmest was on the tin foil; because of the light reflecting on the foil, and in the start it was of course much warmer because of the heat lamp.
Conclusion:

I am really proud of our group and that we succeeded our results were surprising and confusing. Maybe because of the heat changing, of course, it was the heat lamp but also because we got sunlight and an artificial light adding on with our body temperature creating heat. Overall it was a really fun and cool experiment to do because of solar energy and renewable energy from the sun.

Hurumanu - Water Cycle no. 2

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE WATER CYCLE AND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING IT.

Definition:

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapor cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

We will be conducting an experiment that looks at the different ways that climate change is affecting the water cycle.
Two Images:

Findings:

Material:

1.  2 Plastic bag (ziplock)
2.  Vivid pen
3.  A cup of water and half a cup of soda water.
4.  Food coloring
5. Litmus paper (only for the one with soda water)

Steps:

1.  Grab a plastic bag (ziplock) it should be partly large.
2.  Grab a pen and start to draw the clouds, water, trees, and words.
3.  Pour a cup of water into the bag not too much.
4.  add at least two drops of food coloring the color of your choice but ideally blue
5.  Stick the bag on a window where the sun comes through regularly.

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	Yes, it does	Yes	Yes
Amount of Water	2	2	2
Acidity	1	2	1

Key: Water and acidity amount: 1 = none

2 = small drips

3 = large drips

Other comments:

Bag 1

• The water cycle bag 1 did not contain any form of acidity.
• In bag 1 there were effects that showed the process of the water cycle.
• In bag 1 it had created small drops of water.

Bag 2

•  The CO2 water cycle bag contains small drips of acidity
•  The special paper in the bag had not turned blue since the water cycle was very slow.

•  Although the process of the water cycle was very slow it still worked

Bag 3

• For the desert water cycle bag, the water cycle we were trying to create was successful because of showing effects in the bag.
• The bag contained small drops of water
• It had not created any form of acidity in the bag.

Conclusion:

We created 3 kinds of bags that would all be related two the water cycle we made one with just water, the second with soda water, and the third with sand and a tiny bit of water. All bags contained small droplets of water but bags 1 and 2 did not contain any acidity apart from bag 2 since it had contained soda. As we were expecting well hoping all the bags water cycles had turned out successfully after showing signs of the process in the water cycle. We saw the bag fogging up which is condensation. Overall we were a bit disappointed since the paper did not turn blue but that's okay.

It says oceans for the first hexagon, We did oceans for the hexagon since that where everything starts. The ocean connects to flooding since the ocean can cause flooding from natural disasters, the sun evaporates water from the ocean. When the sun evaporates water it creates clouds called Condensation also there will water vapor (for example moist or fog on the window). There will also be Carbon dioxide since it can cause acid rain after there will be precipitation in simple words it is also known as rain when it rains it causes freshwater also when it rains it will also cause storms, and hurricanes, and that is the water cycle in my opinion.

Draw a labeled diagram of the Water Cycle

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation 
2. Hurricanes
3. Storms
4. Evaporation
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Water
7. Oceans
8. Water vapor
9. Freshwater
10. Flooding

SOLO Hexagons Activity

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation - Precipitation is when it rains after clouds are saturated and cannot obtain more liquid.
2. Hurricanes - It is a storm with strong wind, rain, and hail most likely to be found in the tropical Caribbean.
3. Storms - It is a weather that causes strong and violent wind and rain and sometimes lightning.
4. Evaporation - Evaporation is when the sun's heat also known as radiation evaporates liquid into the sky.
5. Carbon Dioxide - Carbon dioxide is a gas that is produced from burning fossil fuels like coal, and oil.
6. Water - is a liquid substance that forms the ocean, lakes and also the source we use to drink from.
7. Oceans - The ocean is part of the sea and also the habitat of marine life.
8. Water vapor - Is the gas of water for example clouds, fog or when you heat up water and there is steam.
9. Freshwater - Freshwater is the kind of water that is from the sea.
10. Flooding - Flooding is where there is an overflow of water and can also be a matter of natural disaster that can be caused by underwater volcanoes or earthquakes that can cause large waves.
11. 
    

1. Write about the following Climate Change concepts:

You can do these by powerpoint, embedding a movie, on your blog, on a doc or any other form of presentation. It is up to you.

1. Precipitation - When it rains it can help the plants but it can also cause floods. 
2. Hurricanes - The amount of rainfall had been increased by climate change, it also destroys houses and can sometimes cause flooding.
3. Storms - Since Climate change has changed the weather a lot it also caused many more storms.
4. Evaporation - When the water evaporates it will come back as snow and rain but because of the climate it has increased the air temperature which causes more evaporation. 
5. Carbon Dioxide - Carbon dioxide is the main reason for climate change since it causes acid rain and pollution in the air.
6. Water - Climate change has increased the temperature of the water which travels to cold places like Antarctica and melts the glaciers faster than how it used to be. 
7. Oceans - because of us humans littering, carbon dioxide, and greenhouse gases which cause the ocean to help the earth's climate.
8. Water vapor - The water vapor is like greenhouse gases and once it is released into the air it increases the water temperature and is also warming carbon dioxide. 
9. Freshwater - involving climate the freshwater has changed over the decades because of climate change because it has caused acid rain, Climate change has also decreased the quality of our water and saltwater has also started to intrude into our water supplies.
10. Flooding - Because of climate change and weather changes because of storm and hurricanes, it has caused many floods.

Picture:

ACIDIFICATION: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?

Definition: 

It is where someone or something creates acid or making something become acidic.

The effects of climate change:

When humans burn more and more fossil fuel it creates carbon dioxide which is an acid and when it releases into the air, it makes the air hotter and the ocean hotter and hotter. but it is not only humans creating carbon dioxide there is also sea acid.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

DEFORESTATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

DEFORESTATION: HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Deforestation Definition:

Deforestation is where someone, or a machine or any kind of action that clears an area of trees, for example, cutting down trees.

The effects it can do to climate change:

Trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, when we cut down trees or burn them down the tree releases it's containing carbon dioxide. Since carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. It starts to float around in the atmosphere and will create a cover or for example, acts as a greenhouse. normally if our atmosphere was not affected by carbon dioxide it would prevent the strong heat rays from entering, and the light will bounce back up into space. But now that carbon dioxide created holes in our atmosphere which allows the strong heat rays to enter and because the carbon dioxide has created a glass house kind of atmosphere it allows the sunray to bounce on earth and go up and down normally it would go back up to space.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

ICECAP MELT: HOW DOES ICECAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Definition:

It is where icecap melts because of climate change which causes the water to get warmer and when the sea level rises it is much easier for it to melt.

How it affects climate change:
Because icecaps are a dark color it absorbs more sunlight and also releases it in the air which helps climate change and that heat warms the air and melts the icecaps. Once the ice caps are melted there will cause a sea-level rise and more evaporation which will be faster.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

WATER VAPOUR: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO WATER VAPOUR AND EVAPORATION?

Definition:

Water vapor is a gas it is caused by evaporation or boiling water but that is aqueous vapor water vapor is invisible.

How does it affect climate change:

When we dump greenhouse gas into the air, of course, you know it makes the air humid and warmer but because of water vapor which is a greenhouse gas itself helps the carbon dioxide which makes it worse.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.