Carbon Pollution: Costs & Cures - Jennifer

The video Carbon Pollution: Costs & Cures (10mins) is about the costs that use of fossil fuels are costing the world. It also talks about the cures to solve the problem by using solar and wind power. This movie is really worth watching because it outlines pretty much every problem about climate change. I suggest the class watches this as a group.

Questions I have now include:

1. How can we make everyone use solar and wind power, as well as electric cars, etc.?
2. Why do we keep using so many fossil fuels?

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Todays Solar Power 'Revolution' - Helena

Todays Solar Power 'Revolution'

This video is about the revolution of solar power which is becoming more and more common,which is meaning the price of solar panels are going down.

 'Apple' have created a one the largest solar powered farm to run its data centre in North Carolina. Buildings are starting to become more and more energy efficient they are creating there own power by using solar panels

I think this video is very fascinating, and full of information

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Vancouver: Greenest City? by Anna

Vancouver has a goal to be the greenest city, and get the population more aware. Having more friendly modes of transport solar panels and being more energey efficiant. They are going to make it a requirement for 2020 to in high rise areas to be green house gas neutral so the building will be much more energy efficiant and the materials will be more improved.


"Vancouver: Greenest City?" from ETOM on Vimeo.

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Western U.K.’s Winter of Weather Discontent by Tyler

the sea has been water pulling cars off the road into the sea 

  a 150 year storm 

  bad flooding 

 100 year flooding  just after the 50 year flooding

  big road damage near the sea 

  

   hurricane winds other 100 miles an hour

   two weeks worth of rain 

   worst winter rain in 280 yrs 

  unsure if this is what it will be like in the future because of global warming 

  

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Leave It in the Ground by Nathan

This movie is about how canada is digging up more and more  fossil fuels with means like Fraking  which is creating lots of carbon emissions and toxic lakes of unusable water and chemicals.

Some of the questions I have include:

1. Why is Canada still using 20th century fossil fuels for power.
2. Why not switch to solar and wind technology?

"Leave It In The Ground" (The Oil/Tar Sands) from ETOM on Vimeo.

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‘Unstoppable’ Antarctic Glacial Melting — olivia

that today there is a large  part of Antarctica that is melting  and it can not be stopped
Scientist say that the speed that global warming is increasing that  Antarctica will lose a less  half of the ice. There a 6 layers of ice and if the top 3 layers melt the whole thing will go at to sea

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Converting Fractions - practise

In pairs work through the following questions using the web site IXL:

1. Converting between fractions-decimals-percentages... easy
2. Understanding fractions... easy
3. Converting between fractions and mixed numbers... harder

As you complete these questions, it is important you don't actually try it until both people have had time to think through the answer. Discuss what and why you think the answer is.

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