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?

Pacific Island,New Zealand near place in the sea

What else do we need to think about?

we need to houses in a tall mountain 

What other places around NZ will be affected?

near to the sea

What does this do to our drinking water?

it might effect our drinking water   

What are the main concerns?

flooding near the sea 

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What can we do to prevent climate change?

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Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

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

1.   electric cars
2.  using electric public transport 
3. planting more trees 

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   try not to use fossil fuels 
2. plant more food for the future
3. building a houses in a high mountain   

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

Hururmanu experiment

Hypothesis: I think that the banana will rotten in a few weeks and the Styrofoam will stay in the same and and the bred will rotten as well and the paper will be the same.
Decomposition 

1. test tube 
2. test tube rack
3. water 

Materials:

1.   paper 
2.   Styrofoam  
3. banana 
4.   bread 
5.   test tube 
6.   test tube blocker 

Steps:

1.   get the four test tube 
2.   put the banana one of the test tube 
3. put the  Sylophone on the test tube 
4.   put the bread on the test tube 
5.   get the paper and put it on the test tube 

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Findings:

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	yellow	none	and we put four slice banana
Paper	brown	none	we put big long paper
Styrophone cup	white	none	we put big long plastic
Bread	white/brown	none	we put long bread

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3 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	brown/green	molds	the banana has a lot of molds
Paper	brown	none	the paper has the same ting
Styrophone cup	white	none	the hydrophone has the same
Bread	brown/green	molds/watery	the bread has a bit of molds and it is watery

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5 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	green/brown/black	lots of mold	have more mold
Paper	brown	none	same ting
Styrophone cup	white	none	sane ting
Bread	green/brown/black	moldy	its have a bit of yellow water

  

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Conclusion:I have learned how paper and Styrophone cup can be last up to 500 years
food can last 3 to 5 weeks, the bread is already gone and the banana, the banana it have a bit of water and the bread but it left a mold in the test cubs.