Hurumanu - Climate change and the future

Hurumanu: Climate Change and the future

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

How is sea level rise going to effect us in NZ

What places will be effected?

The places that will be affected are all around the coast of New Zealand.

What else do we need to think about?

We need to think about building houses, not on the coast. 

What other places around NZ will be affected?

The other places around NZ will be affected is the Pacific Islands.

What does this do to our drinking water?

 It will put salt on the drinking water.

What are the main concerns?

1.   Flooding 
2.   Erosion

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Recycling.
2.  Use less plastic.
3.  Do not throw rubbish in the ocean.   

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

Recycling.

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

1.   Renewable fuels.
2.   Transport the uses solar energy or batteries.
3.   Recycle.

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   Using less plastic.
2.   Walk instead of using cars.
3.   Do not throw rubbish everywhere.

Activities:

Carbon Footprint: 
Carbon Footprint explained

Dwelling
Water
Recreation
Heating and cooling
Electricity
Transportation
Food
Waste
Air Travel
Consumption

Colour 1: for actions they are already doing 

Colour 2: for actions that they pledge to undertake in the future

Ecological Handprint The Ecological handprint builds on the concepts from the Carbon Footprint. We will look at the positive actions of:

1. Transportation
2. Community
3. Consumption
4. Water
5. Food
6. Home
7. Waste

1 Colour: For each action you are already doing 

2 Colour: For each action you would like to do in the future

The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

Hello everybody! Today we did a puzzle about the Water Cycle. First we cut out the puzzle and we have to solved it on the yellow paper and after we solved it on the yellow paper we have to put our hands up for the teacher to look at it if it's right or not. After the teacher seeing it and checking it if it's right or wrong, the teacher will give us one glue stick to stick it on the paper. When we have done all those things we have to write about how do they connect each other and what about them. for the Precipitation, Evaporation and the Transpiration, we wrote about how do they connect to each other. 

Evaporation: When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.

Transpiration: Evaporations 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.