What is climate change and how is it different from global warming? First to define climate change it would be best to describe what climate is. So when you think about climate alone it is the overall weather over a long period of time that has been recorded. Climate change is the changing of the climate and its patterns over the years. Climate change has been differing from the “normal” patterns we see in certain areas of the planet. Global warming on the other hand is the overall warming of the globe as a whole, mainly caused by us burning fossil fuels. Why should we care about climate change, now, when it’s been happening naturally since the Earth began? Though climate change is a very natural thing as of recently we have been speeding the process of by a lot. With us burning so many fossil fuels we are heating the planet to a point where when it’s supposed to be getting cold it’s staying warm. This is affecting animals such as arctic foxes, they are turning white and not being able to blend in with the environment as they aren’t getting the snow at around the same time. How does your project demonstrate your understanding of climate change? We show our understanding of climate change in our project by teaching the youth about it. Showing some of their understanding of it in the film after asking what they really think of it and what they know about it. We also had both the 4th and 2nd graders illustrate their understanding of what it’s doing to the Earth and what they can do to help. What was your largest area for growth during this project? I feel I could probably work on talking to team members about how we are working as a team. If we are being respectful of others ideas and how we are working. What’s your greatest strength during this project? I would have to say my greatest strength during this project was perseverance. This is just because we had a few bumps in the road and had to improvise on some things. We had to rearrange some dates and had to find a seperate room to display the film and artwork.
Biological needs of Adolescence: Info graphic
This project was about the biological needs of adolescence and choosing a topic under that genera to dive deeper into. I think this is important as we are adolescence and we get the chance to learn about what topic we would like us to and may make us more aware of what we are doing and how these things can effect us in a good or bad way.
My biggest challenge during this project would probably be that i missed the day we started it so I got behind as i usually would have worked over the weekend to get it done. I would have to say if not the time that was my biggest challenge it would have to be finding good images to represent what the current topic was. This was because I felt I didn't have time to continuously look for the right image, so with that being said I suppose the biggest challenge was time as a whole. I think I would have to say personally my biggest success with this project would be gathering information and organizing it on the info graphic. By this I mean scanning the resource pages and finding the information for the section I am talking about. Then organizing the page so its easier to find the paragraph that you would like to read about. If I were to do this project again I would probably look at more sources though not needed its good to get other information. This will make for more opportunity to learn more on the topic and have more diversity.