Hurumanu - Climate Change and The Furture

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

How is sea level rise going to effect us in NZ

What places will be effected? 

Different places in New Zealand and the Pacific Island.

What else do we need to think about? 

Salt Water and People who live near Rivers.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

Timaru, Gisborne,     

What does this do to our drinking water?

We will have salt water from underground instead. 

What are the main concerns?

Salt water will be getting into other peoples water from underground.

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Electric Cars.
2.  Public Transports. 
3.  Try not use more energy.   

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no one silver bullet.

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

1.   Using Renewable's more 
2.   Transport
3.   Using Solar heating's

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   Recycling more
2.   Reusing more
3.   More running or walking instead of using electricity 

Activities:

Carbon Footprint: 

Carbon Footprint explained

Dwelling
Water
Recreation
Heating and cooling
Electricity
Transportation
Food
Waste
Air Travel
Consumption

Colour 1: for actions they are already doing 

Colour 2: for actions that they pledge to undertake in the future

Ecological Handprint The Ecological handprint builds on the concepts from the Carbon Footprint. We will look at the positive actions of:

1. Transportation
2. Community
3. Consumption
4. Water
5. Food
6. Home
7. Waste

1 Colour: For each action you are already doing 

2 Colour: For each action you would like to do in the future

2040 Documentary - Science

Today in science for period three and four, Sh, Ds, Ts and Mt meet in the auditorium for Science. We were watching a 2040 documentary movie about Climate Change. What surprised me in the documentary was all of the information that was said by this guy named Damon Gameau, and also all of the machinery things that could change peoples lives in 2040. It was very interesting.

What was Exciting? What was exciting for me in that documentary was all of the machines and cars in there that looked really life changing and looking forward to what is going to happen in 2040. 
What worried you? What worried me was some of the machinery things because there were some huge machines and somethings could happen to it if it is used all the time.

     

Huruamanu - Climate Change

Last week in week 6, my class and Ds has been focusing on Climate Change in Science. We did a experiment about the weather cycle and I was in a group with Sierra and Rowina. We had to get a zip lock bag and draw the weather cycle on it and add some couple of ingredients in the bag and hang it up on the glass window where there is sun shining.

Here is a screenshot of my template with the materials and steps on it:

Title	Experiment 1 and Experiment 2:  Weather Cycle
Purpose	To understand the Water Cycle
Materials	Experiment 1: 1x Zip lock bag 1x Vivid pen 2x strips of Double sided tape ½ a cup of water 2x drops of blue food colouring 1x Scissors Experiment 2: 1x Zip lock bag 1x vivid pen 2x strips of double sided tape ½ a cup of water 2x drops of blue food colouring 1x Scissors 1x teaspoon of baking powder 1x Litmus paper  1x Soda water
Steps	Experiment 1: Step 1: Grab your Zip lock bag. Step 2: Grab a vivid pen. Step 3: Draw the water cycle on the zip lock bag with the vivid. Step 4: Get the 2x of the strip double tape.  Step 5: Stick the tape on the top below the zip and at the bottom of the bag. Step 6: Carefully add ½ a cup of warm water and 2x drops of blue food colouring into the bag. Step 7: Close the zip lock bag and give it to the teacher to stick on the glass window where there is sun shining on.   Experiment 2 steps: Step 1: Grab your zip lock bag Step 2: Grab a vivid pen Step 3: Draw the water cycle on the zip lock bag with the vivid. Step 4: Get the 2x of the strip double tape.  Step 5: Stick the tape on the top below the zip and at the bottom of the bag. Step 6: Carefully add ½ a cup of warm water and soda water into the bag. Step 7: Add 2x drops of blue food colouring into the bag. Step 8: Add 1 teaspoon of baking powder into the bag Step 9: Close the zip lock bag with the litmus paper at the tip of the zip and give it to the teacher to stick on the glass window where there is sun shining on.
Conclusion	I think the outcome of experiment 1 is going to look the same because it’s only blue food colouring in water.  I think the outcome of experiment 2 is going to probably change because you have added baking powder into the water with the blue food colouring and also used the litmus paper in there to see if it has changed colour.   What happened:

Hurumanu - The Greenhouse Effect

Aim: To look at Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect.


Materials:
1. Plastic bottle
2. 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda and Citric Acid
3. 1 heat lamp
4. 1 thermometer.
5. 100 ml water
6. 1 rubber bung


Steps:
1. Collect materials from Mr Palmer.
2. Setting up the lights, bottles, thermometers and bungs.
3. Mr Palmer adds the Baking Soda Mix with 100 ml of water.
4. Wait for 5 minutes and start recording the temperature.


Variables:

All the water added to the bottles was from the classroom tap.



Findings: The Greenhouse Effect data.

Minutes	Bottle 1: Water	Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
0	18'c	18'c
5	22'c	25'c
10	25'c	25'c
15	26'c	25'c
20	No recording	No recording
25	No recording	No recording
30	No recording	No recording
35	No recording	No recording
40	30'c	41'

Conclusion:
This week in Science, we have been focusing on Climate Change. We did a experiment on the Greenhouse Effect and we had to get in a group of nine. We wrote all of the materials from the teachers blog down and also followed the steps from Mr Palmer.
The bottle of water didn't heat up as much as the bottle with gas in it. Its the same with Climate Change.