Hurumanu: Climate Change Issues

My Investigation

Aim: To look at how I can prevent climate change in the future.

1. Complete the activity 'Ecological Handprint'

2. Complete the activity 'Carbon Footprint'.

3. Write down your 10 changes to climate change below. Using ideas from the Ecological Hand print and Carbon Footprint list 10 changes that you can make to stop Climate change?

1.   Try to eat more vegetable and not always eat meat.
2.   Try to recycle and composting more and not always throw the waste in the garbage.
3.   I should check the labels and try to buy healthy food because when I'm at the grocery store I just took stuff and didn't check were the food came from.
4. I should try to talk to my parents about protecting the environment.
5. I should try planting and growing vegetable or fruits instead of buying them in the store.
6.  Maybe when I saw a rubbish laying on the ground I should pick them and throw them away.
7.  I should take a shower quickly to save more water in the house.
8.  I should try to unplug the things that I don't need to so I can save more energy. 
9.   When we go to the shopping as the whole family I want to tell my parents think about it first before getting them.
10.   instead of throwing my organics straight into the green bin i can put it in my garden.

The Years of Living Dangerously (Film, 59 min.)

Hurumanu: Climate Change and the future

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

Changing Our Future

Name 3 fossil fuels?
Oil
Coal
Natural Gas

What is the cost?
The Carbon Dioxide
The CO2 level has soured since when?
Industrial Revolution
What are the effects in the UK?

1.    Warm days
2.     Heat waves 
3.   In worldwide the Species could disappear. 

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

200 Million 

When will Fairborn be flooded?

 It will be 26 years 

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

1.     1.5 Million Homes
2.     100,000 
3.     1000 Toxic sites 

How can we stop climate change?

1.    Replacing gas boilers 
2.    1.5 Billion of trees 
3.    Running cars on the solar energy and the hydro 

What ideas are school children having about climate change?

1.    Having a protesting about the climate change 
2.    Not having a kids because they thought that it was 
3.    They want to see more people to use bicycle and more walking because engine also affect the environment because we inhale them and it's bad for our health.

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

 is the political will.

How is sea level rise going to effect us in NZ

What places will be effected?
The places that would be affected is the various places like it will be flooded.

What else do we need to think about?

The people that need to build or developing a new area or house that it was not near to a sea because that can cause flooding and break their house.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

The pacific island will be affected badly.

What does this do to our drinking water?

It makes more salty and that's bad for health.

What are the main concerns?

1.   Coastal flooding
2.  Coastal erosion 

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Use public transport like use bicycle or walk more. 
2.   Build a house that use more and less energy.
3.   Buy a car that use less energy/oil.

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?
No one 

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

1.   Using Renewable 
2.   Use solar heating 
3.   Get away on the car that use to much fossil fuel.

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   I turn off the lights when I'm going out
2.   Use energy wisely like save money and other stuff.
3.   Take a shower quickly to save more water.

My Investigation

Where does our food come from?

• Choose your favourite food.

Kimchi Fried Rice 

Picture:

   

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)? 

It came from South Korea 

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

In my research it was 9,946 kilometers in New Zealand.

• What are the main ingredients? 
• You need Oil
• A rice 
• Peas,Carrots, Garlic/Ginger
• Soy sauce, Chili paste
• An Eggs 
• Of course a jar of Kimchi 

• How is the food packaged? 

Kimchi fried rice can find in a store but sometimes you can make it by yourself, and also I think that you can't put it on a package because you can easily make it at home, but I think in Korea they put it on a box and inside of the box there are different ingredients but I think there's no rice inside on it. 

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

 The resources that you need was Oil, Water and Fire.

• Would this item have been processed?
• No because all of the ingredients for the kimchi fried rice can be added freshly. 

• Is there anything unique or significant about the food item (e.g. fair-trade, local)? 
• It was well know in Korea and other restaurant because it made primarily with kimchi and a rice and also some fresh vegetable, and I think it was popular dish in Korea because it can get along with other food and it will taste delicious when you eat it.

• What else do you notice about this food that affects its climate friendliness? 
•  Making this food you need some gas to boil, and also an egg to make it more delicious and fancy but after all I think it was climate- friendly.

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

• Why?

Because most of the ingredients are organic and also most of the ingredients are vegetables but some of them are not like they use eggs or ham, and they also use fire and oil for the rice and vegetables.

• If no, what would be a better alternative?  

Hurumanu - Solar Energy

 Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1. Cups x4 
2.  Water
3.  Tin foil 
4.  2 sheets of white paper
5.  1 sheet of black paper 
6. Thermometer 
7. 1 large cup 

Steps

1. The first thing you need to do was to get all of the materials that you need and put them down on your table.  
2.  When you have all of the materials go and fill all of the small cups with cold water don't put a lot of water and leave a space.
3.  After that place a large cup and put it to one of the cup that you have to make it look like a  greenhouse.
4.  When you've done put 1 cup to a white paper, and the second cup that has a large a cup is also put to  white paper, the third cup has to be put to a black paper and the last cup is with the tin foil. 
5.   Go get a heat lamp and leave all the cups but make sure that the heat lamp has a light on it.
6.  After that wait at least 15 minutes and after that measure it with a thermometer but every 15 minutes.

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 d	12 d	12 d	12 d
15 minutes	15 d	17 d	21 d	25 d
30 minutes	17 d	18 d	21 d	23 d
45 minutes	18 d	19 d	20 d	22 d

Findings:

In my opinion I think that we succeed but some of our temperatures went up and down which confused us but in our opinion maybe it was because we were kinda close to the door, but the really warmest cup was the tin foil because of the light that is reflecting on the foil and also it was near the heat lamp that's why it was really warm but in a few second when we turn off the heat lamp the cup that is on the tin foil slowly turning to a  cold water again. 
Conclusion:

 Me and my group have fun doing it and I'm really proud of my group because they try their best doing it. When me and my group we're doing the measure thing was kinda confusing because when we do it some of them are going higher but some of them are getting lower and also I think we succeed because we are almost near at the door and there's a light at the top of the surface which is good but some of the water doesn't change because some of the cups are not near at the heat lamp and I think that's why it doesn't change at all, but after all it was fun and I learn a lot of things.

Hurumanu - Weather

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.

MATERIALS

1. You need 4 cups  
2.  You need to have 2 straw, and another 2 stick. 
3.   You need to get sale tape 
4.   Also one pencil that has rubber in the end of it.
5.   Also you need a pin.

STEPS

1.   The first thing you need to do was to was to get the 4 cups from the teacher because that's make's the project move.
2. After you get your 4 cups make a 2 holes in it to put the cups.
3.   After you have the 4 cups you have to get 4 straws because if there's only 2 straw s the cups will be ending up together.
4.   When you have does things make the straw and turn it to the shape of a cross.
5. Then get a pin and a sale tape so the shape of the cross will be stuck together and they will not move.  
6.   Go and get a pencil and stuck them all together and after that you will have anemometer.

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	36 sec
2.	10	18 sec
3.	10	24 sec
4.	10

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 
• The first one was longest one because maybe because one of the person in my group didn't stop blowing into and also we are near the door, the second one was the 24 second one I think it was only like that because the person was running out of breath and also the anemometer didn't move fast at all, and the last one was only 18 because he was at the heat pump and also the problem is there's a lot of people in there so I think It was just only 18 seconds.

CONCLUSION:

My group and I did work well but the only problem is that some of the people in my group was playing and it was hard for me to listen. While where making the anemometer some of the cups were breaking because one of the people in  my group accidentally broke it and I think we try it a lot of times and always make a mistake.But I think it will work well if my group listen properly and the mistake that we did was when we're putting the straw together we didn't put some sale tape to make it strong that's why when we're blowing on the anemometer the cups always getting up together because we didn't do it properly.The point of making this anemometer was to know the how strong is the wind is or how calm is it but on that day the wind was not really strong because you can tell it if you look at the grass because grass was light and also some flags because it was also very light if you want to know the wind speed just looked at those things or using this anemometer.Doing this was very fun and I know that my group can do more better done that.

RECYCLED

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 by recycling these products?

Plastics: If you don't reuse plastic it would be bad since plastic does not biodegrade. Then it would be left in the landfill which will cause methane and once methane is released into the air it causes more air pollution. 

Cycling or walking: If you walk and or ride a bike you lessen driving a car since cars can cause Carbon Dioxide.

Paper: If we reuse paper it will lessen the need for cutting down more trees.

Steel: If you don't reuse steel it will be the normally be labelled as garbage and will be buried under a landfill. Or we will burn them and once we burn it cause more pollution on land and air.

Video questions:

What is Zero Waste?

Zero waste is one of the quickest and affordable ways a community immediately reduces the impact on climate change.
What can we do on the planet?

1.  Repair 
2.  Reduce
3.  Reuse 
4.  Recycle

What do we need to recycle?

Put biodegradable materials into the green waste bin so we can help stabilise the soil. Also Plastic, steel, and the paper.

What does recycling do?

We can shut down 20% of the coal factories which can be done immediately and it can prevent pollution.

How much of our rubbish is food scraps?

90,000

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

Soil can decrease carbon dioxide but also since soil can help grow plants it is also good since plants eat carbon dioxide since that is the source to create there leaves and stems.

What do we need to do?

1. Make Changes
2. Have Zero waste

What is a carbon footprint?

How can you make your Carbon Footprint smaller?

Carbon footprint goals:

1. Walk to school and less driving to school

2. Take faster showers

3.during the day use the sunlight and not use the electricity

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

Name 4 of the tips.

1. Turn off your lights when your not using it or your going out.  
2.   Turn off you water when your brushing your teeth or soaping your hands.
3.   Unplug unused electronics like charger etc.
4.  Use cold water when your going to use washing machine.

AT WHAT RATES DO DIFFERENT ITEMS DECOMPOSE?

MY INVESTIGATION.

Choose 5 items from the list and investigate them. 

Papers-  If we recycled a paper it can be made out of a Cardboard,magazines, paper towels, news paper, and a napkins. If we don't recycled paper we wouldn't have something to write on and don't have a news paper to read and I that the paper will be bad for the oceans because if it wasn't recycle the paper will be pile up in the ocean.

Leaves - Well leaves provide us foods and air to help the plants to grow, also of know that leaves breath in carbon dioxide and breath out oxygen. Leaves can use through the photosynthesis which green plants use sunlight because sunlight is used to form foods from carbon dioxide and water, also the photosynthesis help the leaves to be green.

Milk Carton - Milk carton are also made of from paperboard and it was coated polyethylene, they used paperboard because it was stronger but it was non- recycle.Milk carton can use for fun because you create something form it because a lot of people or kids use it as crafting they used the carton of the milk and they build house miniature for birds,dolls, or Lego figures.Also Milk carton has a great small size for growing small plants.

Glass Bottles - Glass is 100%  recyclable and it can be recycled without losing quality and the purity of the glass, also heating glass in the microwave is more safer that heating plastic because plastic can be melted because of the temperature so that's why a lot of people like glass than using plastic because you can save more money. Most of the people use glass bottle as D.I.Y projects because they can build painted flower vase, bottle tree or Tiki torch bottle,etc..

Orange Peels - Orange peel can help to clean dirty water also orange peel add nutrients and nitrogen to a plants as they decompose , also that orange peel has more fiber than the real fruit inside. There a lot of thing that orange peel can do like orange peel can be used to start a fire, etc. In the compost piles the orange peel can bring in phosphorus, nitrogen and the potassium ( Is a mineral ), and they say that it was a good idea to break your peel down in the a small pieces so the peel will compost faster and faster but if you peel into a big piece they can take a lot of time to compost. 

You need to answer three questions.

Name: 

• Milk carton 
•     Orange Peel 
•     Leaves
•     Glass Bottles 
•     Paper 

1. How long do they take to decompose?

• Milk Carton - 5 years 
• Orange Peels - 3-6 months 
• Leaves - 1-3 months 
• Glass Bottles - 500 years or Forever?
• Paper - 2-4 weeks 

 2. What resources/fossil fuel are they made form?

• Milk Carton - In my research they are made of wood pulp but it was mixed with a hardwood and a softwood.
• Orange Peels - Orange Peels are made of Orange seeds
• Leaves - Leaves are made of CO2 which is carbon dioxide.
• Glass Bottles - Glass Bottles are made from sand, ash, soda, and limestone because they use natural gas and heat which they use coal to create the bottle shape. 
• Paper - It was made from Pulp Cotton from the woods in the tree's 

3. How is this resource recycled?

• Milk Carton - When we put the milk Cartoons into the bins it has to be put with the Glass containers, like Steel and etc.Some of the people put this cartoons into the bins of paper because outside of the milk cartoon is paper/ or a card paper but in the inside it was made of aluminium so it's not right to put the milk cartoons into the bins of paper.
• Orange Peels - With the Orange Peels it easy to reuse it because you can add to your compost heat so it can create soil and it can also create different things like Limoncino or Arancino.
• Leaves - Once you started to mowing the lawn you can add the leaves that have fallen to the ground that came from a trees, if you add them you lawn can shared them up to pieces the size of the grass that is clippings. It can cause the leaves to decompose faster and faster.
• Glass Bottles - If you throw the Glass Bottle to the yellow bin the Glass Bottle will be taken to a machine which then separates and discolour all of the bottles inside the yellow bin. Once the Bottle are crushed and melted down the bottle can be reused to create a new glass products like the glass bottle can be turned into a glass jug.
• Paper - When it was recycled it was taken to a machine where it will separate the kinds and grades of paper and once it was done it will wash away any extra writing or and wash any extra ink off with a soapy water. When it was done it creates a slurry which then creates different kinds of paper materials like news paper, card paper,news paper, etc.

4. How does this object contribute to climate change?

• Milk Carton -  Well milk impacts the environment in a various way because dairy cows produce manure which releases a greenhouse gas into our atmosphere.
• Orange Peel - There is nothing for the orange peels that can cause/contribute something to our climate change.
• Leaves - Mostly of the leaves can help to decrease climate change and not contributing but leaves can help because they feed off carbon dioxide and release oxygen to the air.
• Glass Bottles - When glass bottles are created it needs heat to create its form which means it needs fossil fuels which is the coal to heat up a furnace/heating system, and the carbon dioxide can't stay inside. So we let the carbon dioxide go outside into the air which cause air pollution and also our air temperature increase.
• Paper - All of us always need a paper to write on so there are always trees need to be cut because tree's eat the carbon dioxide once the tree's are cut down. It will release its carbon dioxide that contain in the air which will also cause air pollution.

Cool to be kind - C.I.P

Hi everyone, last week in our C.I.P in cool to be kind we've been planning to have a mufti day at August 8 2019 and we also plan something what are we going to wear for our mufti day and what is the theme. The first thing we do was we get into a groups of 2 or 4 and our group there's 4 people in it, and after we have our group we plan for our theme but we have to make sure that it was based on our crazy kind of thing so we have to brainstorm something but we can't think for it because me and my friends don't usually wear something crazy and we come up with some ideas like Black and White, bright colours and pig tails (also about that the boys also need to tie they're hair into a crazy way), edgy, etc.

After we have done brainstorming we go to the mat and plan what is our theme going to be share what they brainstorm there's a lot of crazy ideas and interesting idea that the other group has and it  was cool, and one group say RADICAL RAINBOW and they voted for that  maybe they picked because they want to make the day brighter and also maybe each colours of rainbow has meaning on it ( maybe ), but when your going to wear that RADICAL RAINBOW you and your friends can pick each colour from the rainbow so it will be catchy to the other people eyes.

A few moments we have to go to our passion because it was period 3 so me and my friend go to our passion which is singing it was really fun it was kinda sad that we missed one period of our C.I.P but when we come back we have to make a poster or a DLO and in that poster it need to have WHEN, WHY, WHERE, so they have information about it. So me and my friends make a poster because we thought it was easy to make a poster than doing a DLO and when we make a poster it has to be colourful like colour it in a different colours to make it more fancy and interesting.

 We also need to have a donation for our mufti day and it will be donated to the Kids Can we have to bring a gold coin and donate it to the basics children, and I think the reason for that was to help the charities and also that's why our C.I.P is called " Cool to be kind". Tomorrow is the day where we have to bring gold coins and wear the theme of RADICAL RAINBOW also the teacher are going to pick 8 volunteers who is going to collect the gold coins.

 So here is the poster that I made:

DRAMA - Slam poetry & Puberty!!!

In Week 2 which is Tuesday on our Drama session, they say that they were doing slam poem and learning puberty. Well they say that a slam poetry is a kind of poem that a lot of kids used the most and also young kids and teenager. My friends say that most of the teenagers do a poem about political Issues or racism but the kids that are in their 13 s or 12 s do some poems about beauty or not being good enough. On Tuesday we also talk about Puberty just like the best thing about our body changing and us kids turning into adults the details that won't be necessary for a obvious reasons. 

 The puberty session, most of the kids were giggling because that usually happen for us, in puberty was kinda weird but my friends are mature but me I'm kinda mature because I don'y usually know about puberty so sometimes I'm kinda curious what's the teacher talking about.For Puberty we talk about the changes and the challenge that will going to happen to you it is where your hormones are going to start acting up. You will feel emotional or you feel something or notice something that you didn't have before.

For there slam poetry, they needed to improve our previous poem which was the BTS poem while Rieya was reading  Skyler and Shiela danced boy with Luv by BTS. They danced to the main bit which is the chorus. In the end, they still kept  doing actions for the ARMY chant for BTS, the chant goes 
KIM NAMJOON
KIM SEOKJIN
MIN YOONGI
JUNG HOSEOK
PARK JIMIN
KIM TAEHYUNG
JEON JUNGKOOK
BTS!!!!

 Here's the poem that they did:

Bangtan Sonyeondan

Strivers, Inspiring, Passionate, Remarkable

Idols that helped their fans to develop high self-esteem, to love themselves, to keep on moving forward even if things get hard, to smile.

For their fans to appreciate themselves, family, friends, fans, and each other.

Pain, Loved and Fulfilled

Doubting themselves, Not being good enough, Families not supporting their dream

Artist of the Year, Billboard Singers, The next  Beatles, The First Korean Boy Band who performed in Wembley Stadium, earned a Big Fandom

They want to keep on making music that will inspire people, that will be the cure for people’s misery, that will teach their fans to love themselves 

Seoul, South Korea

Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, Jeon Jungkook BTS

By: RIEYA, SKYLER, SHIELA.