There has been a good news in our church community. Taking Care of our Environment becomes one of our church programs. Most of our chuch members involve in recycling organic and inorganic trash. Everyday they must seperate the two materials. The inorganic materials are trash paper, plastic, boxes, etc which has to be put into a big plastic trash bag. The inorganic materials are raw vegetable left over whichhas to be put in a drum and mixed with soil and manure for fertilizer.
As part of this church program, my mom and her friends visited a place close to our community where they can learn about ways to take care of our environment. The people in the community tought them how to make firtilizer, planting vegitables, planting herbal trees, recycling organic and inorganic trash.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Experiment
Material:
-Old newspaper
-Blender
-Coat hanger
-Nylon stocking
-Bowl
-Iron
-Cutting board
-Paper towel
Recycling, reducing and reusing are ways to prevent climate change. Therefore my group and I chose to recycle newspaper and turn it into a new piece of paper. By reusing newspaper we can reduce deforestation. Therefore we don’t have to cut down trees as much as we did. If we reduce deforestation, our environment will have more trees which produce oxygen and prevent our environment from flood and landslide.
Procedure:
1: Gather up old sheets of newspaper
2: Take a piece of newspaper and tear it apart (don’t cut them)
3: Place the pieces of paper in a blender
4: Pour hot water onto the blender
5: Let the mixture flow for about 10 minutes
6: Then turn on the blender at full speed
7: Bend the coat hanger until its shape is like a loop
8: Cover the looped up coat hanger with an old nylon stocking. This will be our screen
9: Place the ‘screen’ over the bowl and pour the liquid to the ‘screen’
10: Now place the 'screen' between two sheets of paper towels.
11: Take this paper towel and place it on the cutting board.
12: Iron out the paper towels.
13: Remove the paper towels and peel the paper off of the screen.
And Now You Have A New And Nice Piece Of Paper!
Bibliography:
Reeko. (1997), How to Recycle Newspaper
http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/ExpNewspaper.htm
accessed on 13/05/07
-Old newspaper
-Blender
-Coat hanger
-Nylon stocking
-Bowl
-Iron
-Cutting board
-Paper towel
Recycling, reducing and reusing are ways to prevent climate change. Therefore my group and I chose to recycle newspaper and turn it into a new piece of paper. By reusing newspaper we can reduce deforestation. Therefore we don’t have to cut down trees as much as we did. If we reduce deforestation, our environment will have more trees which produce oxygen and prevent our environment from flood and landslide.
Procedure:
1: Gather up old sheets of newspaper
2: Take a piece of newspaper and tear it apart (don’t cut them)
3: Place the pieces of paper in a blender
4: Pour hot water onto the blender
5: Let the mixture flow for about 10 minutes
6: Then turn on the blender at full speed
7: Bend the coat hanger until its shape is like a loop
8: Cover the looped up coat hanger with an old nylon stocking. This will be our screen
9: Place the ‘screen’ over the bowl and pour the liquid to the ‘screen’
10: Now place the 'screen' between two sheets of paper towels.
11: Take this paper towel and place it on the cutting board.
12: Iron out the paper towels.
13: Remove the paper towels and peel the paper off of the screen.
And Now You Have A New And Nice Piece Of Paper!
Bibliography:
Reeko. (1997), How to Recycle Newspaper
http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/ExpNewspaper.htm
accessed on 13/05/07
Field Trip!
Yesterday My group and I went to this field trip to BPPT. It was only for our group. We learned heaps of thing s over there. We didn't even know if they could even can make rain. They would use an aeroplane and 1 tonne of soft salt to put in the clouds. They would go under clouds to see if it had enough air pressure. If the clouds had enough air pressure they would turn around and shoot out the 1 tonne of salt.
Try this:
Materials needed:
- A bowl full of salt
-Bowl (2)
-water
Step 1:
Pour the salt into a bowl.
Step2:
Pour the water into a bowl.
Step3:
Put the filled bowls next to each other. Leave them there for a night.
Step 4:
See the result the next morning. Part of the water from the bowl is gone and the salt in the bowl is sort of wet.
Try this:
Materials needed:
- A bowl full of salt
-Bowl (2)
-water
Step 1:
Pour the salt into a bowl.
Step2:
Pour the water into a bowl.
Step3:
Put the filled bowls next to each other. Leave them there for a night.
Step 4:
See the result the next morning. Part of the water from the bowl is gone and the salt in the bowl is sort of wet.
Friday, May 11, 2007
The Meeting
Usually our prents come to school for meetings about our subject at school. But today, our parents had a different kind of meeting. They had a meeting with us. We were discussing about the exhibition last year, what we have learned and what are we going to do for the exhibition.
From this meeting I learned how we should build a good team work with our friends and parents. We can be more communicative and cooperative to make our exhibition succesful.
I will try my beat in this coming two weeks to write my journal everyday to add my inquiry and to design my poster so that I can achieve the best.
From this meeting I learned how we should build a good team work with our friends and parents. We can be more communicative and cooperative to make our exhibition succesful.
I will try my beat in this coming two weeks to write my journal everyday to add my inquiry and to design my poster so that I can achieve the best.
The Bible's point of veiw
The Bible says that climate is controlled by God, because God is the owner of this whole world and he has the power over everything (Psalm 19:1, Genesis 1:1-26). In Genesis, He commanded Adam to take care of His wonderful world (Genesis1:28). This is supposed to be our mission. We are not assigned to destroy this world we are assigned to protect this world. God gave us abilities that no other living creatures have. Everybody in this world has abilities that are special. That’s why we need to use them for doing good not evil.
All of us need to put a lot of effort to prevent climate change. This is what God wants us to do for maintaining the ecosystem of the world so that all living being can live in harmony (Psalm 24:1).
Bibliography:
19985, The NIV Study Bible, The Zonder Fund Cooperation, Michigan.
accessed on 11/o5/07
All of us need to put a lot of effort to prevent climate change. This is what God wants us to do for maintaining the ecosystem of the world so that all living being can live in harmony (Psalm 24:1).
Bibliography:
19985, The NIV Study Bible, The Zonder Fund Cooperation, Michigan.
accessed on 11/o5/07
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Musical Performance
The purpose of this performance is to encourage people and remind people not ot waste materials that we use in our daily life. Our group will emphasise on the importance of recycling, reducing and reusing. We will be singing a rap song called We are the three R's of the world.
Singer: All
Drum: Adia
Lead singer: Ayu
Guitar: Darren
Key board: Sam (me)
Type of song: Rap
Title: The Three R's (recycle, reduce, Reuse) of the world
Singer: All
Drum: Adia
Lead singer: Ayu
Guitar: Darren
Key board: Sam (me)
Type of song: Rap
Title: The Three R's (recycle, reduce, Reuse) of the world
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Inquiry into number 2
Inquiry into: climate change affecting our local environment with bad weather
What is up with drought and Indonesia?
What would happen if climate change is affecting our world with many different ways? It's just like a big boss who asks his little minions to rule the world for him. But in this case climate change is the big boss and it's little minions, well actually big minions are the bad weather all arund us. And they are trying to destroy our world!
This is now the drought minions that are ordered to attack Indonesia by climate change becuase of us were talking about here. Climate change might create the shortage on food suplies in Indonesia. Scientists say that this might cause a major drought to Indonesia if we don't decrease green house gas emmisions.
Forest fires and Indonesia don't get along, not at all.
Indonesia might get forest fire fire because of delaying the attack of the monsoon. Monsoon is a heavy rain which can last for several months which have climatic affects towards the world. If nobody acts quick for the green house gasses, there will be even more forest fires in the world.
The heavy smoke from the forest fire might lead to air pollution which will go up to the Earth's atmosphere creating damages to the ozone layer. This will cause the sun's ultra vioet rays to beam down to Earth hotter than usual.
Bibliography:
-Butler, Rhett A. (2007), Climate change may decimate Indonesia's food supplies, worsen fires
accessed on 5/5/07
-Google Image, Drought
Dorling Kindersly, (2004), E. Encyclopedia Science, London
accessed on 5/5/07
Guardian Unlimited, (2006), Landslide hit Java cause by flood
accessed on 5/05/07
Monday, April 30, 2007
My group's performance
-How does it help the adience to know more about our inquiry?
1. The way our performance is made will help the adience to uderstand our inquiry into (inquiry into: 1The most important factors of climate change 2. Climate change affecting our local environment.) because we will show the how the cause of climate change will affect our environment. We will show it by a person dying because of the hot temperature.
-How can we show our talents during the perfrmance?
2. We can show it because we will do it in a sculpturic way. The sculputuric way of doing it needs patients and also flexibility. We can show our talents of gymnastics because we would need to stay on the same position for a few minutes.
-The purpose, is your message clear?
3. The purpose of our show is too tell the audiences about our inquiry into in a sculpturic kind of way. Our message will be clear because we will talk about it at the end of our performance.
-The length of our performance.
4. We will make it 2-5 minutes long for our performance time.
-Do we have any special needs for this performance?
5. Yes we will have some costumes that are like tourist shirts and a tourist kid of hat. The narator is Ayu which is going to hold a book while the performance is going on.
1. The way our performance is made will help the adience to uderstand our inquiry into (inquiry into: 1The most important factors of climate change 2. Climate change affecting our local environment.) because we will show the how the cause of climate change will affect our environment. We will show it by a person dying because of the hot temperature.
-How can we show our talents during the perfrmance?
2. We can show it because we will do it in a sculpturic way. The sculputuric way of doing it needs patients and also flexibility. We can show our talents of gymnastics because we would need to stay on the same position for a few minutes.
-The purpose, is your message clear?
3. The purpose of our show is too tell the audiences about our inquiry into in a sculpturic kind of way. Our message will be clear because we will talk about it at the end of our performance.
-The length of our performance.
4. We will make it 2-5 minutes long for our performance time.
-Do we have any special needs for this performance?
5. Yes we will have some costumes that are like tourist shirts and a tourist kid of hat. The narator is Ayu which is going to hold a book while the performance is going on.
Key concepts
Sources of personal ghg emissions in Canada, 2001
My group's key concepts:
-Cause
-Change
My group's key concepts:-Cause
-Change
Cause:
My group and I, chose connection because we would have to do some more research so we can learn more about climate change and it would be a fun thing to work on. There are many connections for climate change. Like let's say green house gasses. This pie chart shows how many personal contribution in Canada. The Dark green color is how many passangers road and it is 41.0%. The white colored one shows how many People use lightings. It's 2.7%. I was surprised to see this result. The light green one shows how many space heating they use. The result was 25.7%. The black one shows how many water heating They use. The blue one shows how much they use appliances. The result is 7.9%. The last one, the really small one is for space cooling. The result is 0.7%.
My group and I, chose connection because we would have to do some more research so we can learn more about climate change and it would be a fun thing to work on. There are many connections for climate change. Like let's say green house gasses. This pie chart shows how many personal contribution in Canada. The Dark green color is how many passangers road and it is 41.0%. The white colored one shows how many People use lightings. It's 2.7%. I was surprised to see this result. The light green one shows how many space heating they use. The result was 25.7%. The black one shows how many water heating They use. The blue one shows how much they use appliances. The result is 7.9%. The last one, the really small one is for space cooling. The result is 0.7%.
Change:
Many fresh water ecosystem and their services, are unfortunately threatened. The changes humans create on land are mostly environmental pollution. Lets think for example if the services that the ecosystem provides us with are no longer provided, what would we have left to eat? or, what would we have left to drink? Sure we can catch fishes but we are reharvesting fishes. Reharvesting means that the source that we use can regrow but, we use it too much. It will grow the next time but, it will grow lesser and lesser and lesser until there won't be anymore of that source at all! :() ahhhh scary!
Bibliography:
Many fresh water ecosystem and their services, are unfortunately threatened. The changes humans create on land are mostly environmental pollution. Lets think for example if the services that the ecosystem provides us with are no longer provided, what would we have left to eat? or, what would we have left to drink? Sure we can catch fishes but we are reharvesting fishes. Reharvesting means that the source that we use can regrow but, we use it too much. It will grow the next time but, it will grow lesser and lesser and lesser until there won't be anymore of that source at all! :() ahhhh scary!
Bibliography:
-(2001), Sources of personal greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, 2001
accessed on 27/04/07
Thursday, April 26, 2007
inquiry into number1
Inquiry1: The most important factors of climate change
Population:
The population of the world is now is larger than ever. People's need for food, shelter and fuel creates demands on the earths and it's resources. The result, people have changed the natural environment of the world.
Natural cause:
If a volcanoe erupts it bursts out massive volumes of sulphur dioxide, dust, ash and water vapour to the Earth's atmosphere. Even though the volcanic eruption is still going on for a few days, the massive volumes of ashes and gasses can still affect the change of climate for many years.
Many tonnes of sulphur dioxide gas can reach higher than the Earths atmosphere (stratosphere) from a major eruption. The gasses and dust block the sun rays that are coming to Earth. This can cause the temperature of the world to cool down a bit.
How we all contribute to climate change everyday:
Everyday we humans contribute to this bit of the change in the climate.
-We use electricity all the time, and these electricity we use everyday is being generated by a power plant. This power plant are run on fossill fuel and are responsible for huge amount of green house gasses and other pollution.
-Cars, busses and other motored vehicles run on petrol or diesel both of these are fossil fuel.
-we use many papers for school work and at the office. we have used off more trees too.
-Timbers are used for building houses, which means that we ahve to cut down more trees
Bibliography:
Population:
The population of the world is now is larger than ever. People's need for food, shelter and fuel creates demands on the earths and it's resources. The result, people have changed the natural environment of the world.
Natural cause:
If a volcanoe erupts it bursts out massive volumes of sulphur dioxide, dust, ash and water vapour to the Earth's atmosphere. Even though the volcanic eruption is still going on for a few days, the massive volumes of ashes and gasses can still affect the change of climate for many years.
Many tonnes of sulphur dioxide gas can reach higher than the Earths atmosphere (stratosphere) from a major eruption. The gasses and dust block the sun rays that are coming to Earth. This can cause the temperature of the world to cool down a bit.
How we all contribute to climate change everyday:
Everyday we humans contribute to this bit of the change in the climate.
-We use electricity all the time, and these electricity we use everyday is being generated by a power plant. This power plant are run on fossill fuel and are responsible for huge amount of green house gasses and other pollution.
-Cars, busses and other motored vehicles run on petrol or diesel both of these are fossil fuel.
-we use many papers for school work and at the office. we have used off more trees too.
-Timbers are used for building houses, which means that we ahve to cut down more trees
Bibliography:
(2006), Causes of climate change
http://edugreen.teri.res.in/EXPLORE/climate/causes.htm
The United Nations Environment Programme - World Meteorological Organization, (1997) What Human Activity Contribute to Climate Change, http://www.gcrio.org/ipcc/qa/04.html
The United Nations Environment Programme - World Meteorological Organization, (1997) What Human Activity Contribute to Climate Change, http://www.gcrio.org/ipcc/qa/04.html
The Usborne, (2002), Internet Linked Science Ecyclopedia, London
accessed on 4/26/07
My Group's Inquiry and my introduction
Introduction:
The world is a wonderful place. God created everything in it for the glory of His name. He also gave human being an important mission which is to take care of the world and everything living in it. That means it is our responsibility to maintain its ecosystem for the benefit of all human race.
Unfortnunately our world has become a place full of natural disasters which are caused mostly by human activities such as the over use of fossil fuels as the energy needed for industries, transportation, household, etc. The increase of using material things, over population which needs more lands for building and housing. All of these contribute to our ghg in our atmospher which will affect climate change.
Therefore as students, we also feel responsible towards the changes we make to the world. We feel we needd to take action in our own community. By learning about climate change and how to prevent it will help us to be able to take the action.
Title:
It's our world, were responsible for it.
Theme:
-We are responsible for determining cause of change in our environment
Central idea:
Sharing the planet
My group's inquiry:
-Climate change affecting our local environment with bad weather
-The most important factors of climate change
The world is a wonderful place. God created everything in it for the glory of His name. He also gave human being an important mission which is to take care of the world and everything living in it. That means it is our responsibility to maintain its ecosystem for the benefit of all human race.
Unfortnunately our world has become a place full of natural disasters which are caused mostly by human activities such as the over use of fossil fuels as the energy needed for industries, transportation, household, etc. The increase of using material things, over population which needs more lands for building and housing. All of these contribute to our ghg in our atmospher which will affect climate change.
Therefore as students, we also feel responsible towards the changes we make to the world. We feel we needd to take action in our own community. By learning about climate change and how to prevent it will help us to be able to take the action.
Title:
It's our world, were responsible for it.
Theme:
-We are responsible for determining cause of change in our environment
Central idea:
Sharing the planet
My group's inquiry:
-Climate change affecting our local environment with bad weather
-The most important factors of climate change
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