Pollution...turn it into a solution

As we are coming to the end of our last term, Fuel, we decided to to finalize it with an AP. This unit was called Future, where we were able to explore and think about how CO2 consumption is becoming more and more of an issue. Because we are GCE and we make a difference as a global citizen, this action project was more about inventing and thinking about ways that we can change the things around us and turn them into something eco-friendly. Throughout the term, we were able to meet with Christa Margroff from Nicor Gas (natural gas company), this was by far one of the most interactive FE's I have had all year in my STEAM course.  It was an experience that made us come out with ideas and think more about where we are headed in the world in terms of climate change. Look through my ISSUU presentation to find ideas I have come up with, my calculations, and how I plan to make this Earth safer and ways we can all get a head start on making change!

                                 

Overall, I think this was quite the experience and hopefully you got something out of this presentation. I think all of us in this world, we don't really think about what we are doing that can have a negative effect on our environment, but it's important to think before you do. We have things that give us bliss, but have you ever thought about your bliss having a negative impact?

Gone With The Wind

Throughout my steam course, Fuel, we explored renewable resources such as, wind power, solar power, biomass, geothermal, etc. We were able to go to field experience like Comed where we interacted with different ways to generate energy and how our power is spread throughout the U.S. At the end of this course, we were assigned to produce an infomercial trying to convince an audience to switch to a certain renewable energy source. I chose wind power and here is why...

                

To conclude, switch to wind power. There are pros and cons that you may need to think about, but at the end we all need to think about the issue of global warming. It's time that we take action into our own hands, choose different methods of creating energy, etc. Switch to wind power, other companies like Microsoft are switching as well. Join the movement to fight climate change.

NOT SO FAST NATURAL GAS

  My STEAM course this term is called Fuel. Throughout this course, we are exploring how we as a universe use fuel and the positive and negative effects that it has on the environment. We have three units, this one being our first where we explored nonrenewable and renewable resources. We explored the benefits and drawbacks that it had to the environment. For this AP, we chose a nonrenewable resource. I decided to choose natural gas, and I am basically trying to sell natural gas as being the most positive nonrenewable resource out of all of them. I chose a country in the world, Turkey, and compared their consumption of natural gas to our consumption in the U.S.

                        

Overall, this project has made me change my views on the consumption of fuel that we use in the U.S. compared to other countries in the world. This has definitely made me think about U.S. consumption not just in gas but in other things. The U.S. tends to use a big quantity of different substances that are effecting our planet, especially with our president who doesn't believe in global warming.

If You Can't Stand the Heat- It's Probably Global Warming

Climate change is an issue. What we did this unit was we spoke about temperature conversions, the carbon cycle, the difference in weather and climate, natural disasters, watersheds, number line, and atmospheric layers. "We had in house guests, like Mark Mesle who has observed climate change."We also had an environmental engineer from the EPA who spoke more about what she does and what she is building to help with floods across the U.S. Lastly, "we had a Skype session with a meteorologist from Florida where he spoke about his job, and how there are three different jobs that go into being a meteorologist: graphic designer, presenter, and scientist." We were assigned to choose a specific city where we would find the annual temperature change, based on the rise of CO2 in our atmosphere. I decided to choose Paris, France as my city and found results on what the temperature and global temperature change will be like in the year 2100.


                     

To conclude, global change will be affecting us, and as you can see by the results that I received climate change will even be controlling the way we live day by day. As I was doing my calculations and learning more on climate change I began to come to the realization that we must act upon this issue now. It's only in a matter of time that we will see more and more changes put into this world. As a developing country, we are finding more and more ideas, but these ideas may be effecting our environment in a negative way.