Science - Greenhouse Effect

For the past few weeks our learning focus in science has been around global warming. We learned different aspects of Climate Change along with several tasks that we had to complete. We also focused on the Greenhouse Effect and the influence it has on our environment, people, etc. We also had to complete a task where we had to re-search and collect information about celebrities/public figures perspectives on Climate Change.



What is the Greenhouse Effect?

This effect consists of 7 primary gases such as, Carbon Dioxide, Ozone, Nitrous Oxide, Chlorofluorocarbons, Methane, and Water Vapour, of these different gases, Water Vapour, Methane, and Carbon Dioxide are the main gases responsible for the greenhouse effect. Each gas engages with the sun's heat by trapping it. Carbon dioxide, Methane, Water Vapour, and Nitrous Oxide are the four primary gases within the earth's atmosphere.

All of this crucially contributes to maintaining the earth's warmth and sustaining comfortable living throughout the earth. However, I believe ever since industrial evolution (example: burning fossil fuels) and majority of human activity is causing majority of climate change. Problems such as factories producing toxic materials and gases all are released into the atmosphere and inevitably damaging natural resources costing our lives. We need to start implementing the obvious solutions many people have concluded to these problems before they become irreversible.

🌊 Waiting for the tide to turn 🌅 - Kiribati Reading TSK

WALT: make connections between oral, written and visual texts
Task Description: Today as the closure of Term 2 is very close by, I decided to start finishing my work early. Kiribati is known as a island trying to fight climate change following with a documentary with a former Kiribati president named Anote. We had to read a lot of articles, listen to recordings and watch traliers to get a full understanding of Kiribati and Climate Change. We answered a lot of questions in this presentation. I hope you enjoy this presentation!

⚡HOW EXTREME WEATHER IS AFFECTING NZ ⛅

WALT: discuss and justify our opinion on a topic

Task Description: This week as a create task me, Pisrina and Eden made a poster talking about how extreme weather is affecting NZ but, we have also added how it has affected other places in our planet. We have also added images showing the event that we are describing in the texts boxes. After researching, I can say that I have learnt a whole lot more then ever about Extreme Weather and Climate Change. I hope you enjoy reading this poster and maybe learn something from it and share the message! Thx and stay tuned for more posts!

🌊 Climate Change: Our Biggest Challenge 🏭

WALT: discuss and justify our opinion on a topic
Task Description: For the past two weeks in our reading class, we have been focusing on climate change. Climate change has many meanings as you can see in this word art above. But right now we are focusing on extreme weather events and the impact or causes it has upon us. I talking tornado's, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and much more. First we had create a word family on change and the write different synonmys that come under change. We than had to share our opinion on a statement about Extreme Weather Events from two different sides. This is the finishing touch!