Hurumanu - Water Cycle - Science!

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.

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle

Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change

Bag 3: Water cycle with ice added: like Antarctica in climate change

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 or we could say ziplock bag and it has to be kinda large because your gonna put some water in it and your gonna draw on it.
2.  Grab a pen and start to draw the clouds, water, trees, and the words.
3.  Pour a cup of water into the bag not too much.
4.  Add at least two drops of food coloring it choice if you want different colour but it as ideally blue
5.  Stick the bags 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	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:

1. For the water cycle 1 it has no acidity. Because it evaporated and there are small drips of water all over in the bag.

2.  In the water cycle bag 1 it successfully went through the process of the water cycle

3. because of the water cycle it had created small drips of water.

Bag 2 :

4. For our bag 2 we used soda water and we put some blue food colouring.

5.  For the CO2 water cycle bag 2  had a success in the the process despite the soda water.

6. Bag 2 created small droplets of water as part of the water cycle.

Bag 3:

7. The water cycle in bag 3 was successful.

8. For bag 3 it had contained sand so we added a small amount of water because the water cycle wouldn't work with out it. 

9. Bag 3 had no form of acidity contained in it.

Conclusion:

In this project we created 3 different bags and it has to be related to the water cycle, the first one that we did was the water and the second bag that we did was different because we use soda and lastly we used was sand and a bit of water. All if the bags that we made has formed some small droplets all over the bags and only bag 1 didn't any of the acidity because it was only water but the bag 2 has some acidity because we used soda in it. Days have past we thought that this experiment will be successful but we only saw some fogging up inside the bag which is condensation/moisture. The bag 3 there was a little paper called Litmus paper and it supposed to be blue but it didn't work but that's okay I think we still have to wait.

Hexagon Conclusion:

 In our project our first word was ocean for the first hexagon, we did ocean because in our opinion that where everything starts. The ocean was next to flooding because I know that ocean can cause flooding from the temperature of the climate change, then the sun evaporates water form the ocean and then it create gas. When the sun evaporates water it creates cloud which is also known as the condensation also there will be Water vapour because they connect together which is moist or moisture.Then the Carbon Dioxide since it can cause acid rain after the Carbon Dioxide there will be Precipitation and also called as the rain and when it rain it causes Freshwater also we all know that when it rain badly it can cause Hurricane and also Storms. 

This what it look like.

Draw a labelled diagram of the Water Cycle

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation - When it rains it can help the plants not to get dry and it also help them alive but it can also cause floods.
2. Hurricanes -  There's more rainfall because of the cause of the climate change, and it can cause more damage of flooding and it can also destroy houses because of the amount of rainfall.
3. Storms - Since our world change because of the climate change, and it change the weather  a lot and it caused many more dangerous storms.
4. Evaporation - The water evaporate it will come back as know as snow and rain but because of the climate change and it has increased the air temperature which causes ore of the evaporation.
5. Carbon Dioxide - Carbon Dioxide is one of the main reason why our climate change because it causes a lot of stuff like flooding and of course the air pollution.
6. Water - The climate change has increased the sea water and the water travels to a cold places and it melts the glacier faster.
7. Oceans - The human make a mess of the carbon dioxide, and the green house which causes the oceans help our earth's climate.
8. Water vapour - Water vapour is like similar to green house gases because once it was realised to the air the water temperatures and it also the warming form Carbon Dioxide.
9. Freshwater - This involve climate change the fresh water has changed over the decades because of our climate change and it also caused acid rain,Climate change has decreased the quality of the water and the salt water has also started to intrude into our water supplies.
10. Flooding - Because of climate change the weather has change a lot because of the storms, hurricanes, it has caused many floods and also because water level raised up and it that can also caused some floods.

SOLO Hexagons Activity

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation - Is when it rains, snow,or hail.
2. Hurricanes - It's a cyclone with strong wind, rain, hail that mostly tropical Caribbean 
3. Storms - Storm is weather who causes strong wind, strong winds, and also it sometimes it also has thunder, and lightning. 
4. Evaporation - Well Evaporation is when the sun heat's and it's also known as radiation evaporate in the sky.
5. Carbon Dioxide - We all know that Carbon Dioxide is a gas that is produced from factories and also from burning fossil fuels.
6. Water - Water is a liquid that can formed the lakes, ocean and also the source that we drink from.
7. Oceans - Ocean is parts from the sea and some of those parts are habitat of marine life.
8. Water vapour - The water vapour is a gas that comes from water, for example clouds, fog, and also when you heat up water it causes steam that is also water vapour.
9. Freshwater - Freshwater was the kind of water that is similar to sea, lakes, and rivers.
10. Flooding - Flooding cause a lot of problem like example flooding can destroy the nature because of overflow dirty water, they often can be caused by rivers , and overflowing lake and seas.

TODAY YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON THE WATER CYCLE.

1. Using your SOLO hexagons poster write a paragraph about the different aspects of climate change.
2. 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.

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

Definition: Acidification is like taking an action on something or the process of making on something to become acidic.

Affects the Climate Change? : 

As I heard if all the humans in the world keep burning more and more fossil fuels and it change the our seawater and absorbed the carbon dioxide form our atmosphere that continue to rise, and make the sea temperatures hotter and hotter and which makes the sea more acidic refers to the decreasing level of the ocean.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

DEFORESTATION: HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Definition: Deforestation is when it takes the action of clearing wide area of the trees all over the world.

How does it affects climate change? :
When the Deforestation take an action of clearing the forest and cut down trees or when it was burnt and it was natural but it stored carbon and it released into the atmosphere which mostly carbon dioxide. But loosing trees is bad but there are reason why they have to cut trees because it can make way for other land such as agriculture and also harvest of woods. But Deforestation affects our wildlife and cause climate change and furthermore Deforestation change the landscape.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

ICE CAP MELT: HOW DOES ICE CAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Definition: North or South Pole was covered by the ice, and when it melts it raise our sea level rise that can cause floods.

How does it affect climate change? :
We all know that the world is getting hotter and hotter because of the climate changes and it was enough to warn the Arctic melt the ice. Because of the icecaps it absorbs sunlight and the heat warms and it melt the icecaps. When the ice caps was melted because of the heat the sea level rise which cause some flooding.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

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

Definition: Water Vapour was a gas it is caused by evaporation like example when something is boiling like water and etc and it also create water vapour.

How does it affect the climate change?:  

What I heard is when we we're dumping greenhouse gases in the climate the air become more humid and warming the atmosphere to rise but because of the water vapour which is the greenhouse gas itself helps make the carbon dioxide more worse because it became more warmer and it leads the temperature rise.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle:

Science Badges!

Science Badges:

  

'Conservation'  

• Climate Science
• Global Warming
• Recycling
• Renewable Energy
• Fossil Fuels
• Ecology
• Our Planet
• Water
• Plants

1. 15 Points are needed to get a badge
2. A high standard of work.

• All experiments are written up ( Aim, Materials, Steps, Conclusion)
• Two photos of your experiment
• 6 sentences at least for a conclusion

Science will be twice per week.

• Lesson 1: This will be an Experiment that involves blogging. You will be expected to open a new post, copy Mr. Palmer's blog and paste it on your new post.
• Lesson 2: This will be an Investigation that relates to the topic of Lesson 1. It will be own choice and displayed in a way that you prefer. For example - PowerPoint, Doc, etc

BLOGGING.

All the blogs and science lessons will be displayed on Mr. Palmer's blog: 

http://mrpalmersscience.blogspot.com/

Bookmark it!

Expectations:

• 1 blog must be completed per Hurumanu lesson.
• A completed blog must have the four headings ( Aim, Method, Findings, Conclusion), correct writing and punctuation under each heading and be published. No post, no points.
• 2 images of the experiment/investigation on the blog.

Using the Scientific method of investigation:

Aim: What the experiment/investigation is about.

Method: Instructions on how the experiment/investigation is carried out. This includes the equipment.

Findings: What have we learned or found out from our experiment/investigation. This is called Data, Information or Facts. It is displayed in a chart, table or picture.

Conclusion:  3 Hurumanu goals

1. I will be focusing on getting as many posts posted with detail to achieve a badge.

2. I want to add photos and being able to finish the posts on time and if I don't have enough time to finish it I can use my own time and do it as a homework.

3. Always listen to the instruction properly or listen to the teacher so I can successfully achieve the experiment and other things.

WATCH THIS VIDEO AND COMPLETE THE INVESTIGATION.

THE BIG PICTURE

• What animals keep our jackets warm? - birds, sheep, silkworms, 
• What animal makes our boots waterproof? - It was inspiration from ducks since their feathers and bodies can be dry and be waterproof.
• Where does the water in our rivers come from? - Snow and rainwater, also the groundwater.
• Why do we need healthy rivers? - Because from the river some of the water goes to our tap and then the rest goes to the sea if our water turns bad we could be sick and have a stomach ache because of having bad water since we drink water from the tap.
• What are some of the good things about mosquitoes? - Their larvae clean all the bacteria from our river like all the slimy stuff. Also, they are excellent pollinators for our flower which is good for our environment. Without them the fish will be hungry birds and we would drink dirty water. 
• Why are bees dying? - 30 to 40% of them die every year but some people think it's because of cellphone towers, pesticides, exotic mites, and predators on the bee's body. 
• What do bugs do to our leaves - They reduce Reuse and recycle.
• R - Reduce
• R - Re-use
• R - Recycle
• How much dung would we be in if there were no dung decomposers? - 7 feet of dung.
• Who runs this planet? - All of Nature and all of the living things on this planet are the only people/animal who runs this planet because without living things we couldn't live properly.

GROUP ACTIVITY; 

1. Groups of 3 or 4 students.
2. Need A3 copy paper.

THE ICECAPS HAVE MELTED. MOST OF THE LAND IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN FLOODED AND YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE ON A BOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. YOUR BOAT IS SUDDENLY STRUCK BY A STORM AND YOU BECOME SHIPWRECKED ON A SMALL ISLAND. YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO SELECT 20 ITEMS FOR YOUR GROUP. A SECOND BOAT IS TRAVELLING NEAR YOU BUT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU FOR 1 MONTH SO YOU NEED TO GATHER ENOUGH SUPPLIES TO LAST FOR A MONTH.

In your group you need to:

1. Make a list of the 10 things you are going to collect.
2. Draw a map of the island.
4. Draw and label the activities you will be involved with.

• Renewable energy sites ( wind, solar, hydro, )
• Living/shelter
• Growing food
• Write 3 sentences about how your group is going to live for the next month.

When you are drawing your map you need to list 4 places you can have renewable energy sites.

Hurumanu-Fossils Fuels

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 is a very natural fuel such as the coal,crude oil or gas,formed in the geological past form the remains of living organisms like plants or animal in the earth.

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? Coal, Oil, Natural Gas
How are they mined?

1. For oil, they drill them very well into an underground reservoir, because when oil has been tapped and mud logger. 
2. For coal, they used a giant machine to remove coal form the ground, they used two methods because some mines are 1,000 feet deep.
3. For Natural Gas, they also used giant machine like the oil, there a large piece of drilling equipment and used to drill the dirt and through the soil and rocks to the natural gas.


Where are they mined?

1. The United States
2. Australia
3. Russia
4. China
5. South Africa

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.   Paper
3.   Pen
4.  toothpick  

Steps:

1. First you need to draw the cookie don't break because you need to compare the cookie after you remove the chocolate chip.
2. After that you need to draw a habitat it can a forest or something you want. 
3.   There are some question below that you need to answer about to your habitat you need to answer these questions.
4.   After that you need to remove the chocolate chips from the cookie using the toothpick and draw the cookie again.
5.   You need to draw your habitat and imagine that some people do a mining on your habitat.
6.   After your done drawing you need to answer the question about how it change and what happen on the life of the living things that living on your habitat.

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: 
 I really like doing this activity because I learn a lot of things  like when we are mining the cookie I felt bad that if the cookie broke my whole world spilt and I felt sad about that because if that happen the animals and the trees that lived in my forest will die because it will became dry and the animals will lost their habitat and they have anything left.I learn that mining things was really bad to our world.

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?

The climate change because there is air pollution and air pollution that really affect our world.

How do we see climate change affecting the globe?

1.   The Antarctica melting the ice and it will cause the sea level rise 
2.    The heat that will increase a dangerous temperature that will affect us 
3. Super storms like hurricane, typhoons.  
4.   If there's a typhoon in your country there is a possibility that it will cause flood, landslide that will affect a lot of people because it will block people's way roads etc. 

What is needed to change history?

We need to take care of our planet, we have to stop cutting trees so our atmosphere can stay strong. We need to change so the animals can live well in our planet.

Is climate change a man made disaster?

Yes, because of what they did, they made something or creating/invent something that will help us to live better 

Dramatic action must be made in the next _10_ years to change it?

Animals in the world are keep dying because of the climate change, and if don't help our world 

Why is our climate changing?

In my opinion our climate was changing because we cut tree's, the sea level rise, super storms, hot world, drought.

What is causing the warming trend of the climate?

There are things that causing our climate like cars, factories because they realise bad smoke,fossil fuels,and the air pollution.

What is the main problem?

The climate change, the air pollution 

What are examples of these?

Cars and factories because they realise Carbon Dioxide.

  

Burning fossil fuels releases what gas?

When they are burning fuels the factories are realising Carbon Dioxide.

How much hotter now is our world?

1-degrees Celsius

What do we call this global warming?

Climate Change 

How is this affecting creatures / animals like bats?

I know the planet was getting hotter and hotter, the mother of their baby are dying and unavailable to survive because of the hotness of our world.

What percentage of species are near extinction?

8 percent in total.

How could this effect the world ecosystems?

If the forest was dry because of the hot temperature all of the animals and also some insects that lived there can't live properly because they are all not used to a hot temperature and there's a possibility that they might die because of the climate change.

What global change was seen and recording breaking last year?

The huge fire that happen on the forest.

How is climate change affecting our weather systems?

1. Fire that increase heat 

2.  If it keeps raining it will cause more flooding 

3. Storms like rain, huge fire

What is another effect of climate change?

Ice melting, and it can also affect some animal.

What will happen if the ice melts in Antarctica and the Arctic?

It will be flooded, the ice that melt will cause the sea level rise and if that happen there will be no land left.

How does this affect people?

This will affect all of the people because some people are not use to the weather, and they're losing their home because of the flood.

What other things affect oceans change?

The heat because I know that our world was getting hotter and it cause to melt the ice in ocean and sea level rise

What does too much heat do to the coral?

It can kill the corals because of the heat.

Why did some industries not want to stop burning fossil fuels?

It's the only way to get energy like fossil fuels,oil, coal they all produce energy.