Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

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

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIALS

1. straws x 4
2. cups  x 4
3. pin  
4.  pencil 
5.   tape

STEPS

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Once you have made an anemometer we are going to record the wind speed.

Group size: 5

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

• Timekeeper
• Counter
• Recorder
• Anemometer Manager
• Wind generator

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the time keeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. If possible, repeat the above step four (4) times and record the average number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins using the table below.

You will need to create the wind yourself by blowing. Get 4 different wind speeds by blowing.

You will need to time them and count the number of spins.

	Time Interval	Number of Spins
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4.

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 

CONCLUSION:

hunumanu

Aim: To learn practical ways of recycling so that we can make our world a better place.

The Zero Waste Climate Solution movie 

Video questions:

What has human activity done to our planet?
human activity has

 

What is Zero Waste?
Definition: one of the quickest and cheapest ways a community can immediately reduce climate change

What stuff has a carbon footprint? car boxes bags  food

What are 4 easy things to help our planet?

1.   reduce
2.   redesign
3.  repair
4.  

What do we need to recycle?

1. cans
2. repair things
3. fixing things 
4. plastic 
5. bottles

What does recycling do to our planet?

How much of our rubbish is made up of food scraps?

50%

What does methane gas do to our planet? it traps  big amount  of sunlight

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?


What do using zero waste practices do to our planet?helps it 

What is a carbon footprint?

What is your Carbon Footprint?

Carbon Footprint Calculator

You are now going to look at your own carbon footprint by taking a questionirre. Remember to 'Add details to improve accurcay'.

Based on the questionaire what is your:

1. Ecological Footprint

2. Carbon Footprint

How many planets did you have?

What is your personal Earth overshoot day?

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

Name 4 of the tips.

1.   
2.   
3.   

MY INVESTIGATION.

• Choose 6 items from the list.
• Investigate them using Google.
• Answer the 4 questions below.

Name: 

1. How long does this resource take to decompose?
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from?
3. How does making this object contribute to climate change?
4. How is this resource recycled?

ART hunumanu

this is what we did in art hunumanu it is a story about our clay making

i movie hope you like it.

The long haunted road 

One day I woke up and felt weird. So I got out of bed looked out the window it was a nice sunny Monday day 7:30 am then i went to the wardrobe and got changed I went outside and got in the car on the way to work. The road that I normally go down was closed so I went a different way and went down a long road and there were trucks that were coming up and down the road.

So I thought there was a construction site up ahead  I kept dr seen a house that looked very scary there were trucks in the yard i really wanted to knock on the door I kept driving then there was another house I stopped and slowly walked closer to the house then I got to the door I knocked on the door and it sounded like it was about to break no one opened  it. So I got in my car and left the house. About 5 minutes later there was a truck i didn't see a truck for about 30 minutes. Then It went flying past me then there was another one and another one there was 3 in a row. Then 5 minutes later there was another one it crashed in to me I looked back up and he was driving away then i yelled help there was a car that parked next to me the man got out of the car and opened the car door he helped me out the police come chased the truck the cop lost him the cop come back his name was johnny and Timmy is the one that stopped. 

this was it hope you like bye.

maths problem solving

hi my name is Camryn.
What i found challenging was working the answer out in groups
 there was to much talking.

 Me and my group worked very good the activity that we did was raining the night before 273 worms 

and it take's 11 worms to feed a bird. How many birds got feed my group  did in times at the end we worked with anther group to see how they worked it out and to see if our answer was right both of our groups were right this is all we did and this blog post bye. 

C.I.P

Hi my name is Camryn and to day me and my friend  did c.i.p about colour of kindness this. it is all about kindness hope you like it bye.

Hurumanu ART

hey my Name is Camryn and today we were working on our clay making my  group is still working on the clay then we will get to the movie the setting is a long road by a forest and car crash we have 2 cars 1 truck an some trees and 3/4 people  there is 3 of us in a group we will be starting the movie in the next 4 weeks the character that is all we did and then we did our blog post bye.

C.I.P

hi my name is Camryn and I'll be talking about some things we did in C.I.P  we are repeating what we have dun from the start i remember we picked rubbish up around  dentine park and around the school after that we made things with the rubbish someone  made a bird scorcher that was all we did and blog post  today we were making a colouring in contest for primary school's  like gilberthorp school
hornby primary st Bernadettes they all will be in the competition. the age of my groups one is 4 to 6
every body got to vote.

hurumanu science

Hi my Name is  Camryn and in science today we were talking about coal we got a chocolate biscuit
we draw  the biscuit  outline