Carbon Footprint Pledge

My Carbon Footprint

Carbon Footprint explained ( Youtube)

Carbon Footprint handout

Here is my Carbon Footprint:

You will need:

1. 2 different coloring pencils
2. The Carbon Footprint Handout.

We will look at our Carbon Footprint under the following headings.

• 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

List 5 of the actions you pledge to undertake in the future.

1.   Check to see my food is produced locally.
2.   Try to conserve as much water as I can.
3.   Mainly buy for my needs.
4.   Recycle as much as I can.  
5.   Walk around places more.

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? New Zealand and where water is already flooding from the sea

coastal area.

What else do we need to think about? Pacific islands and where the islands are lower buildings and where we will but them.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

Pacific island coastal areas.

Places that are relying on water from the tide.

What does this do to our drinking water?

Add more saltwater to our freshwater.

What are the main concerns?  

1. Drinking water.
2. Floodings.

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Think of ways to use fewer fossil fuels 
2.    When you build a house make sure it is energy efficient
3.     like public transport or electric cars or walk or bike places

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution? There is no silver bullet

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

1. Use renewable energy  
2.   Use solar heating
3. Use electric vehicals

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   Use solar power for your houses.
2. use less fossil fuels
3.   Walk more or use public trasport

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 Oven

Aim: To make a solar-powered oven.

Materials: 

1. Pizza box  
2.   tin foil
3.   scissors
4.   tape
5.   ruler
6.   pencil
7.   glad wrap
8. newspaper

Steps:

1.   get the pizza box and everything you will need for this experiment.
2.   cut a rectangular shape on the lid of the box.
3.   tap tinfoil onto the inside of the rectangle.
4.   put black plastic on the inside of the box.
5. put the glad wrap on the top of the box (inside the box)
6.   scrunch up newspaper to go around the inside of the box.
7. put things you want to cook and wait

Findings:

Time	Temperature
0	0
15
30
45

Conclusion:
They took a long time to melt and even then it didn't melt enough to make a smore.

Hurumanu (Renewable Energy Investigation)

Aim: To make a presentation that investigates different renewable energy's.

Section 1: Title Page

Section 2: Definitions

1. Hydro Energy

Hydro energy is when water is used to create energy using a water turbine.

     2. Solar Energy

Solar energy is when we collect energy from the light of the sun using a solar panel.

     3.Wind Energy 

Wind energy is when you collect energy from the power of the wind force using a wind turbine.

4.Wave Energy

Wave energy is when you get energy from the waves and their speed and force they turn the waves into energy using a wave encounter machine.

Section 3; Investigate each of the 4 Energy types.
( Hydro ,Solar ,Wind ,Wave ) 

1. Type: Hydro
2. Is it used in NZ? Yes. Large turbines have been build in the central plateau region in the north island.
3. Other Countries that use it? Brazil, Canada, Norway, Paraguay, Austria, Switzerland, Venezuela, and many other countries.
4. How is it used to generate electricity? It is used to generate electricity when you put a hydro turbine in places like rivers that have a water stream.
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator?
   

1. Type: Solar
2. Is it used in NZ? Yes. They have them all over New Zealand in places like Christchurch and maybe even around your town/city.
3. Other Countries that use it? Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, The United States, and Czechia.
4. How is it used to generate electricity? when the sunlight hits a solar panel the solar panel will absorb the sun's light and will produce energy.
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator?

1. Type: Wind
2. Is it used in NZ? Yes. There are some wind farms in places like the cook straight and Manawatu Gorge.
3. Other Countries that use it? China, The United States, Germany, India, Spain, United Kindom, and France.
4. How is it used to generate electricity? When the wind pushes the huge wind turbine energy is made because of the wind's force.
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator?

1. Type: Wave
2. Is it used in NZ? No.
3. Other Countries that use it? Scotland, Canada, Australia, and The United States.
4. How is it used to generate electricity? When waves hit wave energy generator the power from the waves hitting it creates some power and energy.
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator?

Section 4: Renewable Energy in the future.

List at 10 ways that renewable energy will be used in the future to replace our current activities.

1. To power cars
2. To give energy to houses
3. To fuel vehicles like planes and etc.
4. For cooking devices
5. Computers eg. chargers
6. phones eg. chargers
7. factories
8. printers
9. camera's
10. vacuum cleaners and electronics

BYE!

Hurumanu (Wind Power)

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Definitions:

1. Anemometer:
2. Beaufort wind scale:

MATERIALS 

1. PLastic lid x4
2. tape
3. pencil
4. pin
5. skewers x2 

STEPS

1. Get all the materials you need.
2. Tape plastic lids to the skewers. (two on each skewer.)  
3.   Tape the two skewers together.
4.   Pin the skewers to the pencil.
5.   Test to make sure it spins.
6.  Go to winding spaces to see the wind speed.

Group Investigation.

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

• Timekeeper ( watch)

• Counter

• Recorder ( Chromebook or refill )

• Anemometer Manager ( Anemometer)

• Wind Manager

Instructions:

• Go to the measuring place and set up your wind gauge.
• Make sure everyone in your group is ready to start their roles.
• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.
• Count the number of spins in 15 seconds.
• Record it on your chart.

FINDINGS

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field	0.5
2.	Old J Block site	1
3.	Grass hill in the quad	1
4.	Tennis Court gate	0

CONCLUSION:

There was much wind where we went today so the number of spins would be a low amount.

The places that had the most wind were the grass hill in the quad and the old J block site.

The field was the second most windest place in the school because it spun half the way around.

The Tennis Court was not windy at all and it spun 0 times.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	Wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Based on your findings what was the Wind Speed and the Beaufort Wind Force for each area.

	Spins per minute	Wind speed ( kph)	Beaufort Scale
Field	0.5	0-2	0
Old J Block site	1	0-2	0
Grass hill	1	0-2	0
Tennis Court Gate	0	0-2	0

The Boy who Harnessed the wind: 1:36

BYE!