Hurumanu - Climate change

Aim: To look at the causes of climate change and how to prevent it.

Climate Change video; The Facts video

As you watch the video answer these questions:

What is our greatest threat in thousands of years? Climate Change

How do we see climate change affecting the globe?

1.   Carbon dioxide 
2.   Water rise
3.   Lava flow
4.   Heat

What is needed to change history?
start building more electric cars.

Is climate change a man made disaster?
No because the heat is causing huge fires and destroying the planet.

Dramatic action must be made in the next 10 years to change it? 

Why is our climate changing?
Antarctica is melting and rising the sea level and makes country smaller and smaller.

What is causing the warming trend of the climate?
fossil fuels burning and is releasing too much of carbon dioxide in to the earth and making the earth too hot.

What is the main problem? That the sea level is rising and the heat is getting hotter.

What are examples of these? Fires, Sea rising, Carbon dioxide.

Burning fossil fuels releases what gas? nitrogen, carbon, dioxide.

How much hotter now is our world?
0.8 degrees Celsius 

What do we call this global warming?
climate change

How is this affecting creatures / animals like bats?
temperature of the lakes.

What percentage of species are near extinction?
99.9%

How could this effect the world ecosystems?
Rain Forrests and desserts will make the animals die and rise the temperature rise even more too how it was.

What global change was seen and recording breaking last year?

increased heat caused by fires.

How is climate change affecting our weather systems?

1. fires

2. carbon dioxide

What is another effect of climate change?
see level rises, heat level rises, more storms 

What will happen if the ice melts in Antarctica and the Arctic?
The earth can be just water and we will have to live on another planet.

How does this affect people?
They will lose land and a way to make a living.

What other things affect oceans change?

plastic pollution

What does too much heat do to the coral?
kills the bacteria and it dies

Why did some industries not want to stop burning fossil fuels?
It helps them make lots of money by selling energy

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Investigation

You can decide on how you would like to do this investigation. Your presentation could be on the blog, slides, or Powerpoint.

Write a definition, upload an image and list where these fossil fuels are mined.

1. Coal
2. Oil
3. Natural Gas

Write a paragraph of 5 sentence,upload an image and name 2 countries that use this type of renewable energy.

1. Solar
2. Wind
3. Waves
4. Hydro

Write a 5 sentence reflection about what you have learnt about Climate Change and how it is going to affect us in the future.  

Hurumanu - Solar Energy

Solar Energy

By: Kadyn, Callum, Shikarn & Kody.

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1. Cups x(4).the 
2. Water water.
3. Tinfoil.
4. 2 sheets of white paper.
5. 1 sheet black paper.
6. 1 large cup.
7. Thermometer

Steps

1. Get 3 small cups and 1 large cup
2. Fill the small cups with tap water. 
3. Put the big cup on top of one of the small cups. 
4. Put two of the cups on the white piece of paper and the other two on the tin foil and on the black paper.

Which surface conducts/attracts the most heat?

Tidxx c xk,  me + temperature	Cup 1 White paper	Cup 2 White paper + plastic.	Cup 3 Black paper	Cup 4 Tinfoil
0	14-15	14-15	14-15	14-15
15 minutes	18	16	24	26
30 minutes	19	19	24	23
45 minutes	20	20	23	24

Findings: Findings: We found that they were all different temperatures and that the one with the big cup on it did not change temperatures at all and the one that was on the tinfoil was the hottest. 
 

Hurumanu Drama - Adolescence

This week we have been learning about puberty, and I got embarrassed seeing pictures of body parts.

Makin’ Jump Shots

He waltzes into the lane

’cross the free-throw line,

fakes a drive, pivots,

floats from the asphalt turf

in an arc of black light,

and sinks two into the chains.

One on one he fakes

down the main, passes

into the free lane

and hits the chains.

A sniff in the fallen air—

he stuffs it through the chains

riding high:

“traveling” someone calls—

and he laughs, stepping

to a silent beat, gliding

as he sinks two into the chains.

Hurumanu Science - Renewable energy

Hurumanu - 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. (3x) plastic bottle
2. 3 balloons
3. permanent marker  
4. disposable gloves   
5.  Cup
6. Fresh horse manure 
7.   mashed banana 
8.   funnel 
9.  water. 
10. heat lamp

Steps:

1.  label al three bottles
2.  add Horse manure to one bottle
3. add horse manure and mashed banana to one bottle
4. add Horse manure vegetable peelings to the other bottle
5.  fill the bottle with water
6. place the balloons on the 3 bottles.

   

Investigation.

Research the following Biomass fuels. You will need to:

Write a definition of fuel.

Write 8 sentences about 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.

Research: 

Name Animal waste.

Definition: Animal poo and wee

Research: Horse manure cow manure...

Name: BIO GAS

Definition: Gas

Research: gaseous fuel, especially methane, produced by the fermentation of organic matter.

botel

Name: BIO FUELS

Definition: Natural gases.

By Kadyn

Charlesworth Reserve

Aim: is to plant over hundreds of plants for our environment.

Yesterday the year 7 & 8s went on to and adventure to Charlesworth Reserve and we went gardening their. When we arrived we had morning tea and waited for our instructor to give us instructions on what to do when we get to the area that we are going to be planting. We went their because we have been doing hard work at our school and this was like a reward for all of us. Here is what we have been doing.       

We found lots of mud crabs their too. 

This is the history of Charlesworth Reserve:

William's main piece of land sat alongside Ferry Road and was known as Saxon Farm.

The beautiful 14 roomed homestead that was accompanied by stables, a coal house and 6 acres of English grass was known as the Saxon Villa.

The Saxon Villa is not their any more as it has broken down and has became 

an empty area full of mud.

After the trip to Charlseworth reserve we went to the back of mitre 10 and cleaned the area we had bags and bags full of rubbish and the people will be happy now that we have done that and a huge thanks to "Andrew"

By Kadyn

Hurumanu - Fossil Fuels

 

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

Definition of Fossil Fuels: Fossil fuels are a Natural fuel like coal and oil (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 gas

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. Coal is mined.
2. Oil.
3. natural gas.


Where are they mined?

1. China
2. Australia
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Russia
5. United States

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. paper 
2. tooth pick  
3. cookie  
4. plate 

Steps:

1. We had got the paper from the teacher.
2. We have got the cookie given from the teachers
3. We had to fill in the paper and draw the cookie before and after.  
4.  We had to mine the cookie with the toothpick and take the chocolate chips out.
5.  We then had to put the paper on the blog.

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

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?

Conclusion: There are 3 Fossil fuel and they are called:

1. Coal

2. Oil

3. Natural Gas

Where ever the fossil fuels are, and what ever is above will die. If there is animals above they will die. It can be in the ocean and Forest.