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.

Key concepts

Sources of personal ghg emissions in Canada, 2001
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%.




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:
-(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:
(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 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