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To conclude
To finish off this blog I would like to state that if you are wanting to read this blog from week 1 until week 12, then you will have to go down to the bottom of the blog. That is the way I have presented my reflections of the past 12 weeks. I hope you enjoy my blog.
Environmental factors
Years 3 to 6: Sustainability Action Process. - Developing the proposal for action.
Years 3 to 6: Sustainability Action Process. - Defining the scope of the action.
Weekly Reflection (WEEK 12, 23/05/16)
in this week’s reflection I shall be talking about all the different presentations we have had throughout week 5 until the last week week 12 (this week).
1. Technology through the ages: The group that presented this week had to research 1-3 case studies of technological developments from history of invention to modern day technology. I thought this presentation was short, the shortest presentation of the lot. However it was engaging and had a few good key points about technology.
2. Stories of Cosmology: This was the week that my group presented to the class, we had to research 3 stories of the origin of the universe from different cultures. We included a game of Jeopardy at the end and played a few videos that were both entertaining and informational.
3. Scaling the solar system: The group that had to present this week had to research the size and distances apart of the objects that make up our solar system. They found some really fun and educational videos/songs about the solar system that would be great in any classroom.
4. Fresh Water in Australia: This week's group had to tackle some difficult questions. Why is Australia the driest continent on earth (except for Antarctica)? What is the history of Australia’s inland seas? What is the Murray-Darling Basin? I believe that they had a big task, but made their presentation fun and engaging at the same time.
5. The dynamic problem of pollution: The group this week had to talk about what pollution is and how it is affecting the planet. They also had to include an illustrative case from the past. They interacted with the class really well and helped us understand pollution better.
6. Biodiversity: We understood what it is meant by biodiversity and the unique flora and fauna of Australia because of this week's presentation. The presenters had to also tell us how the fauna and flora come about in Australia. I believe that they were engaging but a tad too long for my liking.
7. Genetically modified foods, panacea or poison?: This week the group had to research the issue of the genetic modification of foods. we learnt why the technology was developed and how is it different from what farmers have done over centuries. It was interesting and engaging to see. It reminded me a lot of my year 12 food technology class. 8. The story of Charles Darwin: This week's group had to research and present aspects of Charles Darwin’s contribution to the theory of evolution as well as something about his life and how he made his discoveries. Their presentation was very interesting and I loved every second of it.
Cool website to help you understand weather
A global map of wind and weather.
Sustainability Action Process.
Root causes of unsustainability.
Key points about sustainability.
Weekly Reflection (WEEK 11, 16/05/16)
In week 11 we started off with talking about natural systems with 2 of the 4 spheres that hold our world together. The four spheres are the biosphere, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere and the atmosphere. The 2 we discussed were defined by:
- Biosphere: the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth or another planet occupied by living organisms. The thin layer at the surface of the earth where life is possible, quick biological cycle of photosynthesis and respiration. Open with respect to energy, closed with respect to matter. - Lithosphere: the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. Minerals in the Earth’s crust slow geological cycle by which minerals move from the lithosphere into the biosphere including volcanic eruptions, weathering, mineralization (organic > inorganic substances), sedimentation.
We then moved onto to sustainability again, like we did in week one, here are a few key points about sustainability. All the matter that was on earth 4 billion years ago is still here today (there is no “away”). Everything has a tendency to disperse and lose its structure over time. Photosynthesis pays the bills: it uses the energy from the sun to reorganize matter. Left to their own devices, natural cycles are well balanced. Sustainability is the capacity or our human society to continue indefinitely within the natural cycles. Then root causes of unsustainability we discussed and here they are:
- We extract large flows of materials from the Earth’s crust. - There is an accumulation of substances created by society. - We inhibit nature’s capacity to run natural cycles. - We create barriers to people meeting their basic needs worldwide.
3 of them are ecological and 1 of them is social, and scientists agree that there are only four root causes of unsustainability based on natural cycles. There is a animated map of global wind and weather above that is quite interesting to use for a classroom. It could be used to teach kids that air is a force out there in the world.
Receptors on retina of human eye.
Peripheral vision.
Increasing energy and visible light.
Episódio 2 - Guts (Intestinos) Neste segundo episódio, a Drª Alice Roberts aborda como a busca de nossos ancestrais por alimento influenciou a nossa aparência e o nosso modo de agir ? o formato do nosso rosto, nosso jeito de olhar e até a forma de atrairmos o sexo oposto.
The origins of us.
Weekly Reflection (WEEK 10, 09/05/16)
This week will be a bit short on the reflection side, as we had a video to watch for half the lecture about evolution. The video is linked up above here and talks about how we evolved to eat bigger and better food for our development. I learnt that species evolve in relation to both biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem because of that video. There are nine main abiotic types, they are listed below: - Water - Fire - Sunlight - Lightening - Land forms - Minerals - Carbon Dioxide - Oxygen - Air pressure Above is a picture about increasing energy and visible light. It proves that there are possibly more differences in light than we as humans can see in our limited eyes. That is all for this week, sorry that it is short, see you next week.
Soil and parent rock
ROTATION!