Environment - Melting Ice Caps

What Is Happening Now In The Artics

-temperatures have been rising in the arctic

-thickness of the ice sheet has decreased

-Springs are coming earlier, and fall is arriving later

-Surface temperatures are increasing at a rate of 2 degrees per decade

-water absorbs heat and thus increases the heat

source: http://www.awitness.org/journal/melt_ice_cap_glacier.html

Cause

human activities (emission of greenhouse gases, deforestation)

Emission Of Greenhouse Gases

-transportation needs, burning of fossil fuels

Burning of fossil fuels

-like petroleum, oil, coal, natural gases

Solutions

-find greener way to make electricity and use energy conserving items like energy bulbs. (solar panels, wind mills)

-use items that do not produce air pollution (cars that run on electricity)

S.C.A.M.P.E.R

S: Subsitute Think about substituting part of your product/process for something else. By looking for something to substitute you can often come up with new ideas.

C: Combine Think about combining two or more parts of your probortunity to achieve a different product/process or to enhance synergy.

A: Adapt Think about which parts of the product/process could be adapted to remove the probortunity or think how you could change the nature of the product/process.

M: Modify/ Distort Think about changing part or all of the current situation, or to distort it in an unusual way. By forcing yourself to come up with new ways of working, you are often prompted into an alternative product/process.

P: Put to Other Purposes Think of how you might be able to put your current solution/ product/process to other purposes, or think of what you could reuse from somewhere else in order to solve your own probortunity. You might think of another way of solving your own probortunity or finding another market for your product.

E: Eliminate Think of what might happen if you eliminated various parts of the product/process/probortunity and consider what you might do in that situation. This often leads you to consider different ways of tackling the probortunity.

R: Rearrange/ Reverse Think of what you would do if part of your probortunity/product/process worked in reverse or done in a different order. What would you do if you had to do it in reverse? You can use this to see your probortunity from different angles and come up with new ideas.

When to use S.C.A.M.P.E.R?


-When you are trying to create a new product and you chould ask yourself whether the product is good or not and if it will do well in the market

-When you want to get an inspiration.

-When you are doing projects or writing compositions.


For the above sketch:

S: Instead or holding the water bottle in hand, the water bottle is attached to the cycling helmet.

C: The invention is a combine of a water bottle and cycling helmet.

A: The designs and patterns on the helmet is adapted.

M: The size of the water bottle is minimized.

P: The cycling helmet, with the holder, can use to hold water bottle.

E: Eliminate the work of screwing open the water bottle.

R: The cycling helmet is used in two ways, one is to protect the head from injuries and to hold the water bottle.

Group Discussion

Baby Stroller

Physical:
-Shelter

Reason:
-Protect from weather element such as rain and sun.

Intellectual:
-Read newspaper, magazine, book etc.
-Play games

Reason:
-to be occupied.

Emotional:
-Patience

Reason:
-Not to get fed up and lose control.

Social:
Talk to someone on the phone or face to face.
Reason:
-to be occupied and reduce boredom.

Physical
It protects the baby from weather elements, such as rain,sun and wind. It also gives the baby a place to sleep of sit at when outdoors.

A

Global Warming-Rise in sea level

Problem:Greenhouse gasses increase as cars and other vehicles factories burn lots of fossil fuels to provide us with our daily needs.

  When Greenhouse gasses(like carbon dioxide)increase,the earth will get warmer,hence there is global warming.

  Due to the temperature rising,there are lots of problems now,like the polar ice caps are melting,causing a rise in the sea level.

 

What happens: When the sea level is rising,low altitude islands may sink below the sea.

The people who live on these island may have huge problems as the sea may destroy human property .

 Also,animals who live on the ice caps will also have problems,as they will have less land to live on,so there may be a problem of overcrowding,and may not be able to adjust to the heat high enough.

Solution:We should all try to conserve energy and use the 3r`s to save the planet.We should also try greener ways to make energy,by using wind or solar energy,or by making more environmentally products for us to use.

Currently,scientist are trying to use Geo-engineering to solve climate change

notes when doing the environment

there's nothing much, because azeem didn't send me much.

1) we must branch out whatever we say

2) we should expand whatever we write and make it more spread out

3) try to keep it short and point out the main points

mind meister

here's the link for the map in mindmeister:

http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/39052380

definition of environment

definition of environment:

1 the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

2 ( the environment) the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, esp. as affected by human activity.

adopted from: New Oxford American Dictionary

The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof.

adopted from: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_environment