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.

solar energy

Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1.  cups x4
2.  tinfoil 
3.  water
4.  2 sheets white paper
5.  1 sheet of black paper 
6.  thermometer
7. 1 large cup
8. 1 heat lamp  

Steps

1.   Get materials
2.  Put cups on each piece of paper
3.  See what one heats up more 
4.  Get the thermometer to see what one was the hottest.

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'c	12'c	12'c	12'c
45 minutes	16	14	22	24
60 minutes	20	19	20	20
75 minutes	18	19	22	26

Findings:

cup one had white paper it started 12'c  and at 45 min it went to  16

and at 60min  it went to 20 and at 75 min it went to 18

cup 2  it started off at  12'c and at 45 min 14 and at 60min 19 and at 75 min it was 19
cup 3 it started at 12 then at 45min 22  60min 20 75min  22 

cup 4 it started at 12 then at 45 min 24 then at 60 min 20 and at 75 min 26

wind power

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 direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	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 loose 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.

MATERIAL  

1 PENCIL  

2  pin

3 tape 

4 straws

STEPS

1.   Get material.
2.    Put pin in the middle of straw
3.   Put cups on straws 
4.   Put tape in middle to keep everything together

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 time keeper 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.	20
2.	10 sec.	14
3.	10 sec.	17
4.	10 sec.	19

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

CONCLUSION:

The stronger the wind the more it spins around.

rubbish bin

Aim: To learn practical ways of recycling so that we can make our world a better place.

The Zero Waste Climate Solution movie

How can we prevent climate change though recycling these products?

Plastics:   there lese is in the world.

Cycling or walking:  that there is no gas .

Paper: we have some more clean air.

Steel:  there is not that much gas.

Video questions:

What is Zero Waste?

 One of the quickest and cheapest ways a community can immediately reduce climate import.

What can we do on the planet?

• Reuling 
• Rensign 
• Reuse 
• Repair 

What do we need to recycle?

• Bags
• Clothes
• Can 
• bottles 
• Paper 

What does recycling do?

• Help the earth 
• Make the earth cleaner 

How much of our rubbish is food scraps?

• alot 

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

• It kills the plant.
• We don’t have much food.
• We need food and we need more plant.

What is a carbon footprint?

How can you make your Carbon Footprint smaller?

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

Name 4 of the tips.

1.   Not use coal
2.   Not use gas 
3.   Not use oil 
4. Put rubbish in the rubbish bin

AT WHAT RATES DO DIFFERENT ITEMS DECOMPOSE?

MY INVESTIGATION.

Choose 5 items from the list and investigate them. 

• Paper 
• Leaves 
• Glass bottles 
• Plastic bottle 
• Plastic bags 

Paper 

It takes 2 to 4 week to break down. It give as air 

Step 1: The recipe. We use sand, limestone, soda ash and recycled glass(cullet) in our glass recipe. 

Step 2: Melting. 

Step 3: Molten Glass Separation. 

Step 4: Forming & Moulding. 

Step 5: Annealing. 

Step 6: Inspection.

Step 7: Packing & Shipping. 

Step 8: Recycling.

Leaves 

1 to 3 months to break down. It make compost.

Step 1 trees

Step 2 water 

Step 3 sunlight 

Glass bottles 

It takes 500 to 1000 years to break down . They make roads.

Step 1: The recipe. We use sand, limestone, soda ash and recycled glass(cullet) in our glass recipe. 

Step 2: Melting.

Step 3: Molten Glass Separation. 

Step 4: Forming & Moulding. 

Step 5: Annealing. 

Step 6: Inspection. 

Step 7: Packing & Shipping.

Step 8: Recycling.

Plastic bottles 

It takes 400 to 500 year to break down .People make roads and clothes.

How to make plastic bags vid.

Plastic bags 

It takes 10 to 20 years to break down. The bags pollute the earth.

How to make plastic bags vid.