Warming Waters Culminating Event

As you all know our poor little earth is warming and since the sun melts ice the water goes in the ocean making the sea levels rise. York 7 did an expedition about sea levels rising and waters getting warmer. This expedition shall be known as Warming Waters. York 7 worked to the bone from September all to way to January! Geez, that’s 4 months! The students worked on their computers on a program called Comic Life and they finally had their culminating event yesterday. When they had the culminating event they made a scavenger hunt for people such as parents of the students, Windsor 7 and the scientists Tim and Amy. The York 7 students proudly showed off their final products. What their final products are are professional-style posters that explain phytoplankton, the Gulf of Maine, climate change, water quality testing and data analysis. Every 10 minutes our emcee, Max, announced who was going to say the “Didja know?” fact. The students spoke a little fun fact and then when they were finished they rang a bell!

by Jean-Louis 

 

Fieldwork: Warming Waters

 

York 7 is in the middle of an expedition called Warming Waters which partially consists of students testing and comparing results of water samples to see what effects, if any, global warming is having, will have, or has had, on the quality of the water. Students have been testing water at Mackworth Island, Maine Yacht Center, and East End Beach, for dissolved oxygen (DO), potential hydrogen (PH), and salinity. Kids can be seen writing results and observations, testing, and collecting samples of the water at the fieldwork sites in the pictures that are soon to come to the blog.

Submitted By Alison

 

Denise Blaha, climate change activist, to speak to York 7

Ms. Denise Blaha, a research associate at the University of New Hampshire Institute of Earth, Ocean and Space, is coming to King Middle School to talk with students about the concept of climate change and global warming.

Ms. Blaha set a great example for students, teachers, parents, and just about everyone by “reducing the carbon emissions of her family by about 17,000 pounds annually.” Part of the way she accomplished this was by replacing all of her incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent ones and by giving some fluorescent light bulbs to her friends. By doing this one thing she made up for the carbon emissions of her car, a Toyota Matrix. To make up for the emissions of her husband’s car, Ms. Blaha gave money to a “carbon offset” which takes money from donors and uses it to “undo the effects of global warming by investing projects like reforestation and wind farms.”

Ms.Blaha is sure to be a motivating and persuasive educator when she comes to speak to students tomorrow, Tuesday, October 23rd.

Submitted By Alison

Quotations from: http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2006/dec/06carbon.html