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 affect us in NZ

What places will be affected?

pacific islands

different places in Newzealand closest to the sea.

What else do we need to think about?

Homes near rivers getting affected because of sea-level rise.

New areas for people to live in.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

Christchurch, Napier, south Dunedin and Miramar in Wellington Timaru, Gisborne, Whangarei, Nelson, Whanganui and Invercargill are other cities.

What does this do to our drinking water?

The water is gonna get more saltwater in it if you live near the sea, because of the underground.

What are the main concerns?

1.   Houses close to the sea flooded more.
2. Underground water getting all salty instead of drinkable

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Use public transport.
2.    Use hybrid and or electric cars.
3.     When you are building a house try to make it use less power.

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no one silver bullet.

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

1.   Use renewables more for electricity
2. Using solar heating for warming up buildings  
3. Electric vehicles more.

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   recycling more and using less plastic
2. Walking more and using the car less.
3.   Looking after our trees and gardens.

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

Hurumanu- Solar energy

Solar Energy

Aim: To find out which colour attracts the suns heat.

Hypothesis:

I think that what will happen with solar energy's or what will happen with one...

Hypothesis meaning... It means to guess something... but out of the information you already have...

I think that the black covered cup will heat up the most because of how the heat will or can get threw the black paper but also make the heat stay inside of the surrounding black paper... 

Materials:

1.  Three plastic cups
2.  Tinfoil
3.  Black paper
4.  white paper
5. Water 
6. Heat lamp

Steps

1. Get the materials.
2.  Set up the cups.
3.  Cover the clear cup with a cut black plastic bag.
4.  Put the cup with a black plastic bag on top of another black plastic bag.
5.   Put the tinfoil cup on top of the paper.
6. Put the white cup on top of the paper.
7. Measure it every minute.

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16 degrees	16 degrees	16 degrees
15	18D	19D	17D
30	21d	26d	23D
45	23d	24.5	25d

In this photo, there is a heat lamp heating up our 3 cups

Conclusion

THE BLACK CUP HEATED FASTER THAN ALL THE OTHERS BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE AND THE HEAT LAMP WAS AIMING AT THE BLACK CUP. THE WHITE CUP WAS TIED WITH THE TIN FOIL AT SAME DEGREES IN 30 MINUTES. I LEARNT THAT HEAT LAMPS CAN GET VERY HOT IN SHORT AMOUNTS OF TIME.

Activity:

In pairs rate the livability of coal vs solar energy.

Comparing Coal energy with Solar energy ( Rate; 1 = poor to 10 = great)

Factor	Solar	Coal
Livability	10	1
Sustainability	10	1
Accessibility	10	1
Cost	10	1
Your choice...	10	1

Solar Sharing ( from 2040)

hurumanu- Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuels

aim: To learn about the impact of fossil fuels on our environment 

The first thing we looked at was mining fossil fuels, the questions we had to answer:

What Fossil Fuels are mined?

1. Oil
2. Coal
3. Natural Gas

Mr Palmer gave us a cookie, we had to draw a picture of that cookie in our hurumanu books, we also had to draw a habitat around the cookie. For example my cookies habitat was underwater so I drew, sea weed, water, fish, and other sea creatures. After this activity we had to answer these questions.

What type of habitat is it?:
an underwater habitat.

What plants and animals live there:

Fish,crabs, sharks, seaweed and dolphins.

 How do humans use your habitat?:

usually to swim or fish for food, and most of the time mine oil.

Mining the cookie:

When we had done drawing our habitat and cookie we had to try and mine out all the chocolate chips with a toothpick with out making the cookie break. My cookie did sadly break but I managed to get about 16 chocolate chips out. 

After this we had to answer some more questions.

How has your habitat (cookie) changed?:

There is nothing left in the cookie and it has also crumbled.  

How can we avoid this in the future?:
By starting from the middle part of the cookie.

What lives there now?:

Nothing.

Materials:

1. Plastic plate
2. Chocolate Chip Cookie
3. A Toothpick

Steps:

1. Get a Plastic Plate and put the Cookie in the middle
2. take a  book.
3. Draw two drawings
1. Draw a picture of the cookie.
2. Draw a picture of the habitat.
4. With a toothpick, dig the chocolate chip.
5. After digging the cookie, count how many chocolate chips you have.
6. Draw the cookie after being dug up 
7. Eat the cookie

Conclusion:

I think this experiment is a good representation of how things like coal mining, and oil mining are ruining our environment, and also showing people how important it is to respect the earth just like how we were mining but also trying not to break our cookie. Even though some did.

I think the environment will defiantly get better if all of us try.