Reflections for Term 2 Week 5

Reflections for Term 2 Week 5 (21/04/09) By Jun Kai

Today in our IPW lesson, my group continue doing our group report. Yew Jin is doing the subject on Preventions against Global Warming, Jun Yi is doing the subject on Effects of Global Warming while Hao Yi  is doing the subject on Causes of Global Warming. My job is to gather all information of the survey we done and try to make it into a bar graph, and to make the overall conclusion of the survey. I also have an idea of the protocol that we wanted to make. It is an umbrella-shaped basket-like thing that covers the plates and bowls of a diner table and keeps the food warm. The dinner basket is made up of recycle materials and plastic bottles so as to justify our group’s statement to save the Earth.  

1st Survey Data

After conducting 20 students in the school, we can conclude that the students had basic understanding and knowledge about the causes and effects of global warming and how to prevent it  from worsening. However, they are not too in depth with the knowledge and not too enthusiastic to save the Earth, their understanding did not convey with their actions. Hence we have decided to design and build a prototype that can made up of recycle materials and able to be help the people in their daily lives.

Update

It's me again! Here's a picture I found on the internet. Very appropriate for the topic we're focusing on, Global Warming. Enjoy! 

Done by Junyi

Our Grace Survey

This is our first try on making a survey.  We hope the questions are appropriate and relevant to the subject

Update

Heya, my bravas! Sorry for the late post, but I found some interesting information I would like to share. Imagine, if Global Warming gets worse, and as a result, the sea water gets warmer, what would happen? The answer is that the sea would become infected with much bacteria, both known and unknown. Other effects of Global Warming are also the early arrival of spring and the late arrival of winter. Coral bleaching and extreme weather are included as well. Here is my update, see you!

(P.S. Although I do not have any pictures to prove my point, I hope you found this post interesting.)

Done by Junyi

Conducting Surveys Term 1 Week 7

This is our guiding questions on doing our survey. 

Term 1 Week 6: Project Planner

 This is our Project Planner.

  This will be the schedule for the IPW 2009. (Subject to Changes)

Group Proposal Form Week 4 (3 out of 3)

Group Proposal Form Week 4 (2 out of 3)

Our Group Proposal Form (1 out of 3) Week 4

This is our Group Proposal Form: 1 out of 3

This form is used to propose our project's aim and content for Grace 2009.

Term 1 Week 3 (Lesson 3) Worksheet

This is the fourth guiding question. The first three questions has already been posted.

Posted by Jun Kai.

Term 1 Week 3 (Lesson 3) Worksheet

   This is the worksheet that we had done. In this worksheet, we arranged 4 guiding questions, and each of the question had answers from the 4 of us. This will help us later during our research work and the making of the product.

Posted by Jun Kai

Update

Here's a graph showing the increase in the Earth's temperature, as well as how much it increases. Take time to study this graph. Hope this increases your awareness about Global Warming and motivate you to do your part to reduce Global Warming.

Done by Junyi

Term 1 Week 2.

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This picture shows the causes of Global Warming, and what causes Global Warming most. Hope this enlightened you and increased your awareness of how fast Global Warming is happening. As you can see, 60% of Global Warming is caused by energy production. Please do your part and conserve energy.

(Source cited from http://www.effectofglobalwarming.com)

Done by Junyi

Pictures

Actually, I was informed that all my pictures became fine in the end because another group member, Jun Kai, fixed it. All credit goes to him and thanks.

Done by Junyi

Re: Global Warming: Causes and Effects

It happened again. The enlargement of the picture I wanted to show you. I don't know if it will repair by itself but I will post a link here of it just in case it doesn't. Here it is:

http://effectofglobalwarming.com/images/What-is-global-warming-img.jpg

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Global Warming: Causes and Effects

(Source cited from http://www.effectofglobalwarming.com)

Here's an elaborate picture of the causes and effects of Global Warming. I reckon that this is the best picture to describe Global Warming ever. Enjoy!

Done by Junyi

More evidence of Global warming:

Less snow on mountains

More pest invading due to warming climate.

(Sources cited from http://www.effectofglobalwarming.com)

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Tips

How to reduce Global Warming:

1. Change an old incandescent bulb to a more energy efficient compact fluorescent bulb.

2. Use public transport when you can.

3. Walk, run, jog, stroll or bike a short distance when possible.

4. Compost.

5. Use recycled paper.

6. Buy minimally packaged group.

7. Unplug electronics after use.

8. Wash your dishes with ONLY a full load.

9. Turn off your lights when you leave a room.

10. Use a laptop instead of a desktop preferably.

(Note: This is only the top 10 of my list, there are still many other ways to reduce Global Warming. For more information, go to http://www.effectofglobalwarming.com)

Done by Junyi

Re: Current status

Somehow, the picture fixed itself. Oh well, what's done is done. Glad blogger is quite reliable anyway, or not.

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Rupturing Glacier: Evidence of Global Warming

Here's evidence of Global Warming: A rupturing glacier

Enjoy!

(P.S. Just in case you don't know what a rupturing glacier is, here's a link: www.dictionary.reference.com :P)

(Source cited from http://www.metacafe.com)

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Re: Current status

Sorry about the picture. We accidentally made it too big. If you wanna see it, here's a link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Risks_and_Impacts_of_Global_Warming.png

Enjoy!

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Re: Current status

Here is the picture we promised you. Enjoy!

Done by Junyi

What we forgot

****. We just learnt from our 'informants' that we had to post a whole lot more of reports. (Well, not really, only two.) We are rushing to complete it in order to post it as soon as possible. unfortunately, we can't post it in school because the internet is TOOO S-L-O-W. Hope we don't get marks deducted for this. :( 

(P.S. Hope you don't mind my informality. If you do, please comment and I will edit the posts. D:)

[Double P.S. Please, please, please, don't deduct marks for this. Thanks. (And I'm referring to my informality as well.)]

Updates

Hehe. We're now trying to make a movie at www.xtranormal.com. Kinda user-friendly, xtranormal is. Had a hell lot of fun making them say different scripts and do different animations. Little difficulties were experienced 'cept for making a movie that everyone is fine with, as different people have different views. We'll be sure to upload a image of our movie (Or even upload the movie itself, if that is possible) soon. Further updates are available soon.

(P.S. Don't know why we can't figure out how to apply our own colours to the movie. :( Trying to fix this little obstacle as soon as possible. :D)

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Current status

We're currently researching on the first section of the topic 'Champions of the Earth', global warming. We were able to find some reliable websites, such as Wikipedia (The picture above was adapted from Wikipedia), to help us with our research. Editing of additional or/and unnecessary information is currently undergoing progress. Stay tuned for updates.

(P.S. The picture can't be uploaded as the internet connection in school is too slow. :P I will upload it at home as soon as possible. :D)

Done by Junyi

Our Group Formation

Term 1 Week 1 (Lesson 1)

 Today, our group had our first taste of  GRACE . GRACE stands for Group Research and Collaboration Expedition, it is formerly known as Interdisciplinary Project Work. (IPW)

For the first half of the lesson, we had some difficulties trying to create our group blog. We struggled for a while but we managed to solve the problem. 

After that, we did a survey for the lesson and was also given the task to finish the 1st worksheet to post it online and to file it in our group file. (Luckily we finished it ALL on time, well, not really. Hehe. :P)

Members of our group:

Index  21 Ng Hao Yi

           22 Ng Jun  Yi

           23 Ng Yew Jin (Leader)

           24 Peh Jun Kai

 

Group Name: Virus ( Subject to change)

(P.S. Actually, we didn't really have many difficulties creating our blog. It was just that we had used up all our emails and we had to create a whole new one. Took up quite alot of time, I must say. :P)

(Double P.S. Hope you didn't mind our little exaggeration. :P)

(Triple P.S. This post was originally posted by Jun Kai, and was later edited by me, Junyi. Don't mind the boring old serious him. :P)