CIP - It's Cool To Be Kind

Today for CIP we did a poster for our mufti next week, we need 1$ cold coin donation to donate for Kids Can, we brainstormed ideas about what we're going to wear next week, like the themes and such and we all agreed to dress "Radical Rainbow".

We were given a choice if we want to do a DLO about it or a poster, I chose the poster anyway because I think that it really shows my creativity with art.

So this is the poster that I made

Hurumanu - Science - Recycling

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: We're reducing plastic by recycling them
Cycling or walking: We don't have to use our car

Paper: We don't have to cut down trees
Steel: We don't need to keep using coal when we burn down steels

Video questions:

What is Zero Waste?
One of the quickest and cheapest ways a community can immediately reduce climate impact.

What can we do on the planet?

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

What do we need to recycle?

Plastics, Styrofoam, Paper, Steel and etc

What does recycling do?

It reduces pollution, prevents global warming, habitat destruction, avoids landfills.

It reduces CO2 emissions.

How much of our rubbish is food scraps?

42% 

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

It helps to stabilize the planet

What do we need to do?

1. Make P__lant_______s. 
2. Have Zero __Waste_________

What is a carbon footprint?

How can you make your Carbon Footprint smaller?

1. Reduce using electricity

2. Walking when going to the mall

3. Walking when going to a friend's house

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

Name 4 of the tips.

1.   If you're not using the microwave, turn it off
2.   If the tap is open and you're not using it turn it off
3.  Walk instead of using a car when going somewhere near your place  
4. Turn off the light when you don't need it

AT WHAT RATES DO DIFFERENT ITEMS DECOMPOSE?

MY INVESTIGATION.

Choose 5 items from the list and investigate them. 

You need to answer three questions.

Name: Leaves, Orange Peels, Plastic Bags, Styrofoam, Aluminium Cans

1. How long do they take to decompose?

- Leaves = 1-3 months

- Orange Peel = 3-6 months

- Plastic Bags = 10-20 years

- Styrofoam = Never

- Aluminium Cans = 200-400 years

1. What resource/fossil fuel are they made from?

- Leaves =  Trees, when it's autumn, leaves fall from trees

- Fruit Peels = Fruit, when eating fruits, you remove their peels, some fruits peels are edible, some aren't

- Plastic Bags = Ethylene (Derived from natural gas and petroleum)

- Styrofoam = Expanded polystyrene foams

- Aluminium Cans = Tin-plated steel

1. How is this resource recycled?

- Leaves =  You can shred (optional) them and make it into mulch, leaf molds, DIY (do it yourself) compost. If you have a chicken you can use it as a bedding.

- Fruit Peels = For orange peels, before eating, cut the orange peel in half and remove the endocarp and all the juices until it's left with its albedo, melt some wax and put the wick in the middle, you now have an orange-scented DIY candle. You can make decorations, make perfume, and/or cosmetics products.

- Plastic Bags = Reuse it for future purposes, make a DIY plastic clothing. Use it to line bins at home. You can use it to wrap any delicate valuable things at home.

- Styrofoam = You shred it and make it into a cushion fill like bean bags. Use it for DIY's

- Aluminium Cans = You can use it for DIY's and for life hacks. Exchange it for money, some communities allows it.

1. How does this object contribute to climate change?

- Leaves =  It causes landfills, sea animals eats the leaves that are dragged or blown from the wind thinking it's food.

- Fruit Peels = It causes landfills 

- Plastic Bags = By making a lot of plastic bags, it causes pollution, thinning our ozone layers and it also causes landfills. When it floods and there plastic bag flying around everywhere, it blocks the water from going through the drain.

- Styrofoam = It causes pollution in the process of making them, it blocks the drains

- Aluminium Cans = It increases the trash

Hurumanu - Science - Water Cycle

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Amount of Water	2	2	2
Acidity	1	2	1

Key: Water and acidity amount: 1 = none 

2 = small drips

3 = large drips

Other comments:

1. For Water Cycle 1, it had no acidity, it evaporated a wee bit and there were small drips of waters in the bag. 

2. It evaporated a wee bit and there were small drips of waters in the bag. 

3. There were small water drips in the bag that indicated that the water in the bag actually went through the process of water cycle. 

4. For Water Cycle 2, we used soda water, which is acidic.

5. We repeated the same steps that we did on the first one but clipping the Litmus paper on the ziplock bag.

6. The Litmus paper turned into blue.

7. For Desert Water Cycle 3, we used sand and a teaspoon of water

8. It went through water cycle but with the sand

9. There were tiny drips in the bag, moistening.

Conclusion:

All the bag went through the process of evaporation, on experiment 2, the Litmus paper turned into red then blue. Meaning that it actually did what we wanted it to do.

Flooding connects to the ocean, it then creates gas, the process is called evaporation, after it evaporates, it creates gas which is the cloud, it's called condensation, condensation connects to water vapour which is moist, precipitation is when it rains, it creates freshwater. When it rains, it creates hurricanes and storms. Carbon dioxide creates acid rain.

Draw a labelled diagram of the Water Cycle

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation - Is when it rains
2. Hurricanes - A type of cyclone that usually happens in a tropical country that creates strong winds and heavy rains
3. Storms - A weather with rain, thunders, lightning or snow
4. Evaporation - When the water is heated up that turns it into water vapour 
5. Carbon Dioxide - It's an odourless and colourless gas that is produced by burning fossil fuels
6. Water - It's an odourless, tasteless, transparent chemical (and necessity) that is used for everyday life Oceans - A large body of water that covers 71 per cent of the Earth's surface
7. Water vapour - Is the other term of clouds, steam and moisture
8. Freshwater - A part of the Earth's aquatic ecosystem,  includes lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands and etc
9. Flooding - When the water quickly rises up from the deep part of the ocean or other aquatic ecosystems, covering the land we are stepping on

SOLO Hexagons Activity

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation
2. Hurricanes
3. Storms
4. Evaporation
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Water
7. Oceans
8. Water vapour
9. Freshwater
10. Flooding

Using your SOLO hexagons poster write a paragraph about the different aspects of climate change.  

1. Precipitation - It storms, it gives water to the plants and it makes freshwater. It helps the plants but it creates floods causing.
2. Hurricanes - It affects houses, it destroys farms, crops and kills people, it creates more rain in climate change. 
3. Storms - Hurricanes create more rain in climate change creating storms
4. Evaporation - It's a process where the water turns into gas
5. Carbon Dioxide - Carbon Dioxide causes climate change 
6. Water - Sea level rising causing tsunamis and floods
7. Oceans - The warm temperature of the water travels to cold places with ice, causing glaciers to melt rapidly than it had 100 years ago
8. Water vapour - The water vapour is like greenhouse gas and once it's into the air it increases the warm temperature of carbon dioxide.
9. Freshwater - Climate change has decreased the quality of the water and the salt water has come into our water supplies like pipes, or the water supplies we drink and bath from, it's what climate change is doing to the fresh water we have
10. Flooding - When the water from the ocean rises, it creates floods, clogging the drains, causing the flood to rise higher since there's nothing the flood will go through

1. Write about the following Climate Change concepts:

Climate change is when the sun's energy warms the Earth, that releases heat to the atmosphere 

You can do these by powerpoint, embedding a movie, on your blog, on a doc or any other form of presentation. It is up to you.

ACIDIFICATION: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?

Acidification is when we get acid in our ocean.

When the water evaporates and turns into gas making clouds, the smoke from factories goes with the gas creating acid rain. Then when there's acid rain, it goes to the ocean, making our ocean acidic.

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

DEFORESTATION: HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

If there are no trees, nothing's going to absorb the water from. When it rains, causing floods and we won't have oxygen to breathe.

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

ICE CAP MELT: HOW DOES ICE CAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

The warm temperature of the water destroys our glaciers and melt it, when a large clump of glaciers falls, the impact can cause the sea level to rise, causing tsunamis

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

I didn't find any diagram of it online, but in this picture, it shows a large chunk of glacier falling. To be specific, it's because of the heat of the water.

WATER VAPOUR: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO WATER VAPOUR AND EVAPORATION?

Water vapour itself is a greenhosue gas therefor, it increases the warming of the carbon dioxide, causing the planet to heat up. And it's where droughts happen and sea temperature to heat up.  

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

This is my drawing of the acidification, ice cap melt, water vapour and deforestation.

Night Vision By Ella West - Book Review

Impression about the front cover of the book: It’s something dark, I think that it’s about a girl who’s running away from dark forces.

The blurb on the back, does it interests me or not? It interests me because I don’t think that I've seen or read a book like Night Vision before, it sounds interesting because Viola’s on the run, she has to survive in order to keep their family’s beloved farm.  And it also says that she uses a night vision goggles which is even better and more exciting. 

I read a page and what I find really interesting is that she encountered something that she shouldn't have seen, a crime scene, it’s also interesting and intriguing because she was wearing a night vision goggles that are really impossible to buy and she doesn’t know where and how her parents got it for her as a birthday present.

My predictions before reading - I predicted the book will be about a girl who encountered a crime scene with her night vision goggles (a goggle that is impossible to buy, a goggle that her parents got for her birthday) and that she is a witness.

The theme: Even keeping quiet can get you in trouble, Viola could’ve told the police about what the killer did because she’s a witness but her family and having a peaceful life will be at stake. But when she did keep quiet it, it’d still be the same, what the killer did would bug her, since no one knows what actually happen - George can still kill her without anyone knowing because no one knows that Viola saw him and that she knows everything that had happened, no one knows. That it’s better to stay away from trouble.

My ranking, why I gave it that ranking and what could be improved

I give the book a 3 out of 5 

The way she wrote the book was great but there were a lot of questions that have not been answered yet and it’s kind of a bummer because it leaves you hanging and the ending was not I expected it to be, there were a lot of intense events especially with the ending part, but then something unexpected happened and the ending wasn’t really my cup of tea.

Di Makakalimutan na Araw (Unforgettable Day)

Filipinos celebrated Filipino week on June 10-14, we had a lot of activities and performance going around. June 12, Wednesday, we performed Traditional FilipinoTh Dances and talked about "Araw ng Kalayaan" (Independence Day). The next day, it was a singing performance, seniors performed up on the stage and sang Filipino and English songs. 

The Filipino students organised a game for everybody to join in and for other people to know more about our culture the next day was singing the seniors sang OPM (Original Pilipino Music) at the auditorium. After the next day, the official Independence day is where we performed the Traditional Filipino Dances.

June 14, Salu-Salo, it was a day where we also performed but this time with the families of the students, our family. People brought yummy foods that filled our stomachs. 

The definition of Salu-Salo is where people gather and share foods that they each brought. It started at 6pm and ended around 8pm. 

The performers wore traditional clothings.

The first performance was Tableau, we performed different events that happened in the Philippine History.  

The year 8's performed the traditional dance, Carinosa is the Philippine's National Dance, it became the national dance before Tinikling. I was part of Carinosa and Tableau. It was performed by partners. 

Subli was then performed by the year 7 and 8's, they used straw hats to dance and they danced it by groups. 

The modern dances will be then performed after dinner. There were heaps of foods that we could choose from, typically Filipino dishes and desserts. Filipinos love to fill their guests stomach. 

It was time for our group to perform Nekkoya  - A kpop song sand by Produce 48 - Majority of Filipinos are fond of Kpop.

Solo Taxonomy

1. Prestructural 
- No Organisation
- Unconnected Ideas

2. Unistructural 
-  One Idea
- Show Connected Thoughts

3. Multistructural
- Two or Three Ideas
- Some Connectedness (Slightly Connected)

4. Relational
-Everything is Connected
-Make Links to Other Concepts

5. Abstract
- Bringing Your Ideas into Other Concepts

Charlesworth Reserve Planting

Wednesday, July 3 2019

Yesterday was the day where we plant trees and bushes, before waiting for the other classes to come in our classroom, we read the Novel Trash by Andy Mulligan. After they have come to the class, we talked about showing our values and what is expected about our behaviour. We rode a bus to go to Charlesworth Reserve, we came with Mrs Allan, Mr Tisch, Whaea Jo, Rachel, Villy and Andre, after we have arrived at our destination, the teachers told us to eat our morning tea, we sat on the grass and ate there, after a couple of minutes, we went and took a 3-5 minutes to walk to where we're actually planting.

 There weren't enough spades for everyone so we decided to share, we also had to wear gloves. And off we go, we were going to get muddy and messy well, it is expected since we're going to plant. But before we plant we had to sit for 5 minutes and Andrew told us about the history of Charlesworth reserve and the plants we are about to plant. We have the sea rush, that's the only plant I remembered he said. Our aim is to plant 100 plants for the native animals to live in.
The spades were really heavy, I decided to partner up with Axle who had a spade because Lhysette and Rieya didn't have one, I told Axle's friend if they could lend one to Rieya or Lhysette so the both of them can partner up.

 And they did, thankfully. We had to plant in an area where a small potted plant is placed, Axle's was the one who's digging and I'm the one who puts the plant in the hole and covered it with sand, but of course we had to remove the soil with the plant from the small pot in order to plant it. It was difficult to remove and we had to do it carefully since the plants were very easy to destroy. After we finished planting it we both went to the next one, it was really fun because we found a lot of baby crabs and shells, it was cute, if it was a big crab, it'd be scary but since it's a baby grab it's okay if they pinch you but it sad at the same time because there were dead crabs that we found as well.

I posted about the history of Charlesworth Reserve in my previous blog about Charlesworth Reserve but I'm going to put it here anyway

After a planting, we ate our lunch and head off to a huge field near Mitre 10, we picked up rubbish and put it in a black rubbish bag, it was fun searching around the field since it was really huge, we found a lot of rubbish that were hidden in the bushes.