japanese indroduction

ki o rahi

A large team game played between 2 teams, kioma and
taniwha on a large circular field. Played for 4 quarters or 2 halves
of a set time, teams alternate roles of Kīoma and Taniwha at half
or quarter time.

Kīoma score by touching Pou/s with the Kī (for potential points) then
running the Kī through Te Roto and placing it down in Pawero to convert
pou touches into points. Kīoma stop the other team, Taniwha.

Taniwha score by hitting the Tupu with the Kī. Kīoma will have Kaitiaki
(guardians) around the Tupu to stop Taniwha from hitting the Tupu.
Depending on the amount of players  when is being played, Taniwha
must stop Kīoma from scoring by either touching, 2 handed touch,
ripping the tag or tackling them in the appropriate area.

instruments

katchafire

From Trash to Gas: Biomass

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Renewable Energy film

Biomass

Aim: To compare the amount of gas that is produced from different types of biomass.

Material:

1.   balloons  x3
2.   plastic bottles x3
3.    horse poo
4. permanent markers   
5.   disposable gloves 
6.   cup 
7.  mashed banana 
8.  funnel 
9. water 
10. vegetable  peelings

Steps:

1.   Label  all 3 bottles 
2.    manure 
3.   manure  and vegetables 
4.   manure and mashed banana
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Investigation.

Research the following Biomass fuels. You will need to:

Write a definition of the fuel.

Write 8 sentences about the fuel. 

• How is it made? 
• Where is it made? 
• What is it made with? 
• What countries use it? 
• What uses will it have in the future?  

Place 1 image of the fuel.

Biomass Fuel types.

Name: Agricultural crops and wood fuels.

Definition:

Wood biomass is the main source of wood energy in New Zealand. It comes in a number of forms, including firewood, shavings, sawdust, wood chips, agricultural crops and bark.

Uses:

Image:

Name: Animal waste.

Definition:

Animal waste means animal excreta, discarded products, bedding, wash waters,waste feed, and silage drainage.Animal waste means animal excreta, discarded products, bedding, wash waters,waste feed, and silage drainage.

Research

Image:

Name: Bio gas

Definition:

Bio gas is the mixture of gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen.Bio gas can be produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste or food waste. Bio gas is a renewable energy source.

Research:

Uses:

Image:

Name: Bio fuels

Definition:

A fuel derived immediately from living matter.

Uses:

Image:

climate change

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 Revulsion.

What are the effects in the UK?

1.    Hot Days
2.    Heat Waves
3.    Species Could disappear.

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

200 million

When will Fairborn be flooded?

26 years

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

1.   1.5m homes in England at risk of flooding by 2080
2.   1000 toxic sites at risk
3.  100,00 homes at risk of coastal erosion.

How can we stop climate change?

1.    Replacing gas boilers in homes into something renewable.
2.    Run every car on some clean energy
3.     Plant 1.5 billion trees

What ideas are school children having about climate change?

1.   That they will die of climate change and not old age.
2.   Having a protest.
3.   Speaking up about climate change to politicians.
4.   Them not wanting to have kids of their own.

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 the

 __political__ will__.

How is sea level rise going to effect us in NZ

What places will be effected?

Veracious places in New Zealand.

What else do we need to think about?

People and new areas for them to leave.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

The pacific Islands.

What does this do to our drinking water?

Makes it Salt water.

What are the main concerns?

1. Coastal Erosion  
2. Coastal Flooding

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Use less fossil fuels by using public transport. 
2.  Buy an electric car.   
3.  Design a house in a Eco friendly way.

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.   Renewable energy
2.   Solar heating
3.   Transport away from vehicles using fossil fuels and toward more electric vehicles.

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   Walk to places not drive
2.   Recycle
3.   Reduce, Reuse, Repair.

My Investigation

Where does our food come from?

• Choose your favourite food.

1. Upload a picture of it. 
2. 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)? 

Pizza is from Italy

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

Pizza - 18,419,71 km

• What are the main ingredients? 

Pizza- 

Cheese

Tomato Sauce

Dough

• How is the food packaged? 

Pizza- In a box.

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

Pizza- 

• Wheat for the Crust. Pizza crust is made from wheat. Farmers plant tiny wheat kernels, or seeds, in the ground using a drill. 
• Tomatoes for the Sauce. Pizza sauce is made from tomatoes. Tomato plants take 75 to 85 
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• Would this item have been processed? 

Pizza- Some box pizza is processed and is more likely to have unhealthy ingredients.

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

Pizza- Some pizzas are unique like New York they are known to have thin pizza with a lot of cheese. So in some ways in different places pizza is unique.

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

Pizza- The fact that pizza needs livestock to make it mean that it is contributing to the 18 percent of green house gas.

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

• Why?
• Because  I am not sure.

fossil fuels

Aim: To look at how fossil fuels are contributing to climate change and how we can prevent this.

Definition of Fossil Fuels:
A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.

Scientific Terms for Students

• coal: a dark-brown to black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plants and used as a fuel primarily for electricity generation
• natural gas: a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface and is used as a fuel primarily for cooking and heating homes
• renewable resource: a resource that is never used up (e.g., solar energy)
• non-renewable resource: a resource that is not replaceable after its use (e.g., coal, gas)

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1.   Coal
2.   Oil
3.   Natural gases

Activity: 

In groups of 3 you will learn about different fossil fuels and the way they are mined?
Each group will be given a fossil fuel. The recorder will read it to the group. The recorder will write down some of the important points.
Person 1: Recorder: to write down 5 points of interest from the text. 

1. 5 Points:
2. Positives and negatives of your type of mining.

Person 2: Reporter: to read back to the class their 5 points of interest.
Person 3: Collector: Gathers the required stationary from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
How are they mined?

1. Digging
2. Scraping
3. Exposing buried resources
4. Drilling

Where are they mined?

1.  America
2.  Russia
3.  China
4.  Australia
5.  India

Activity;

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 
1. looking down at it. 
2. side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1.  Cookie
2.   Plate
3.   Toothpick
4.  Paper

Steps:

1.   Get the sheet of paper
2.   Get your cookie
3.   Get you toothpicks
4.   Poke all the choc chips out of the cookie
5.   Draw a habitat before and after mining.

Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog.

Findings: Mining is destroying our planet.

Conclusion: We should stop mining.