New Century International Elementary School
1. List three technologies that the school plans to utilize.
- Rainwater colections, geothermal A/C, and solar photovoltaic powered systems.
2. Explain each one. (you may need to check out other websites for research)
- collect water from gutters, roofs, and other pipes and is stored until needed(laundry, hygeine, irrigation); uses heat/cool air from under ground to heat/cool your home; panels that use sulight to power electronics.
Earth Day Core Issues
3. Earth Day is coming up. Click on one of the Core Issues. Which one did you choose?
- Conservation and biodiversity.
4. What is the big problem associated with this issue?
- Human expansions and activities.
5. What can you do to fix this problem? Give me a solid paragraph.
- To fix this issue i think we need to stop building so many buildings that we don't need. For example we do not need fast food places if we have stores that provide us with food already. There are plenty of other places that supply us with things that we want/need, so why have so many extra. We may need schools but we don't need shopping malls, we may want shopping malls but we need schools. What we do affects/effects everything else, not just us. We should be greatful and satisfied with what we have instead of wanting more of something we don't need because we are taking it from the ones who need what we take.

Blog Post #1

Choose a major hurricane and answer the following questions in your blog.

1. Which hurricane did you choose?
- Opal

2. What category was it on the Saffir-Simpson scale?
- 4

3. Tell its story.
- Tropical wave moving off the African coast on September 11. The waved moved through the Atlantic and Caribbean on September 23. Developed into a tropical depression near the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula on September 27. Tropical Storm Opal as it reached the north coast of Yucatan on the 30th. Opal then moved into the Bay of Campeche, where it became a hurricane on October 2. Opal continued to strengthen into a category 4, and a period of rapid strengthening. Then weakening followed, and Opal was a Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall near Florida. The cyclone was last seen over the eastern Great Lakes.

4. How many lives were lost? How much damage did it cause ($)?
- 59 deaths, Caused flooding and falling trees.

5. Include at least one picture.

1. What was your best blog this quarter? What made it so good?
-I think my best blog this quarter was the wordle thingy because it was colorful and creative.

2. What grade do you deserve for your blogs this quarter? Why? (Remember to do some basic math here. If you have only attempted 5 out of 7 blogs, the absolute highest grade you could earn is 71%)
- i have no idear. I think i did good though.

3. What was your favorite topic in 2nd Quarter? Why? (Ch. 8,9,10,12,14, 16) Give me a solid paragraph explaining your answer. Include a picture.
-I liked the atmosphere stuff because i think the ozone thing is interesting.
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/ozone_hole.htm

Wordle

Blog Post #5

1. Pick one of the articles you read. List the Name of the article and publisher.
- It's Official: Am asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs; Kate Kelland

2. What was the author's thesis? (insert the quote)
- "We now have great confidence that an asteroid was the cause of the KT extinction. This triggered large-scale fires, earthquakes measuring more than 10 on the Richter scale, and continental landslides, which created tsunamis,"

3. Do you agree with their thesis? Why or why not?
- I do not believe that an asteroid is the only possible reason for dinosaurs extinction because i just think that there could be something else that happened and we just havn't found out about it yet or we will never know.

Oceanography Webquest

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddsgwfct_2cmrvw4v4