Picture of Our Product!

This is our product taken by one of our member's mac

Done by Benedict Tan and Chew Zheng Xiong

Week 14 reflection Member:Chew Zheng Xiong

We are now only a few days away from the exhibition, as we are more prepared than the other group, Our Teacher-In-Charge, Mr Nicholas Koh chose us for the exhibition but due to the things we need to bring is bulky we might not be able to make it so we are asking the group to prepare in case of emergency.

week 13 reflection Member:Chew Zheng Xiong

it has been at least 2 months since i last posted...we are finishing our 3-D model and our last exhibition board and 2 weeks more to the exhibition and the end of this project...cant wait for this to end...

Week 12 reflection Member:Chew Zheng Xiong

All the members are slacking off in the class and I'm the only one doing the job...I have totally given up on them...

Week 12 Reflection

On the last I.P.W. session, we gave an introduction on global warming. Next, we will be doing a section on teaching other people how to be environmentally friendly. I will work with my other team members for this section.

Week 12 reflection Member:Chew Zheng Xiong

We have finished presenting our first power point for our introduction. We are now finishing up the Chapter 1 of our introduction for the Global Warming section but have not started on the How to be environmentally friendly section. The report is mainly words but also have a few pictures on the topic and graphs on the related sections of the topic.

Week 11 Reflection

We are finished with the cover page as what our group leader said. We are now doing the contents page.

Week 11 reflection

We have started on our IPW group report and are done with the cover page.
We are now working on the contents page and see what are we suppose to
include in the report.

Week 10 Reflection

As what Zheng Xiong, our group leader, said, we would find a time to meet up and continue with our project. In the mean time, we would try to help him out and see what we can do.

Week 10 reflection

We will be starting on our research process in about a few hours time when i get home...i will start with the introduction, content page and the cover page and we will do the rest when we meet up next time...

Our PowerPoint!

 We have done a summary on global warming and here is the powerpoint
http://www.box.net/shared/a35fkrrvsk

Week 9 Reflection

We have finished the video on global warming and the survey. We are now waiting for people to do the survey posted on our group blog. We will collect and analyse the results after some time.

The Video!

We have finally finished the video heres the link ENJOY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eelv8c1qJ8g

Survey

Here is the link please do it thanks!
Click here to take survey

Week 9 reflection Member: Chew Zheng Xiong

We are going to collect the survey results and post onto the blog once the survey has reached the deadline.

How to environmentally friendly

Save Electricity!
That is one out of many ways to prevent global warming from accelerating!
E.G: Turn off electrical appliances when not in use
         Use a fan instead of an Air-Conditioner
         Use energy saving bulbs instead of normal light bulbs.

Next Meeting

Seriously, we are only meeting for IPW on Tuesday, right?

Week 8 Reflection

My group members are going to go to my house and complete the project in 1 week's time. We should be able to finish up everything by then.

Week 8 Reflection Member Chew Zheng Xiong

In exactly 1 week, we will be going Anton's House to finish the video and past 2 worksheets and that is all we will do Good Luck!

Week 7 Reflection

I will not not do anything as what Zheng Xiong said. I will see what I need to do on Wednesday after common test.

week 7 reflection Member: Chew Zheng Xiong

for this week I will finish up the global warming power point and upload onto the blog and also do the past week worksheet...when the others slack is up to me to do the job...haiz...

New post

Should we be posting our week 7 reflection now?

Week 6 Reflection

I am making amendments to the script of the movie with the rest of the group members. We will improve the script of the movie if we can.

Next Meeting Preparations

Our Next Group meeting will be on 9/3/10 at 11am
Which by then we will be finishing up the movie
about the 2 topics and finish the worksheet for
that week and post the powerpoint about  Global
Warming onto the blog...

Week 3 Reflection

I did the PowerPoint slides for global warming but I cannot open the file. We will try to solve this problem.

Week 2 Reflection

I wanted to do the project but I do not have other people's telephone number so I cannot contact them to do the project. I will see what I can do.

Movie review

We are now working on the script for the movie and will be completing it by the March Holidays and
we will post an online survey on the blog so people that saw the video and share with us their comments about it.

4th Reflection

This week we continue and improved our 4 guiding questions. We were trying our best to decide which question our group has focus on as the topic global warming is very wide. Our teacher also help us by giving example what type of question can we use for guiding.

3rd Reflection

Today, our group had shorten our project topic to global warming only as the topic was too wide and also whenever we search for global cooling on the net, it would always lead us back to the global warming page which was very frustrating and leading us nowhere. We also thought of 4 question for our current topic for GRACE group work.

2nd Reflection

Today,we brainstorm and discussed which topic our group want to take. This was indeed quite challenging as there was so many topic to choose from and not all of us had the same view. I wanted to take the topic that our teacher suggested which is smoking while my group leader Zheng Xiong wanted to take the topic global warming and cooling which topic was quite wide. But in the end,we took the topic our group leader insisted on which is global warming and cooling.

1st Reflection

Today is the first day of my GRACE group work. I had been looking for to this day as it was also my first time doing project with my sec 2 class. But I was rather disappointed as we formed our groups, without individual choice, but by index numbers. And also ,there was not a lot of time to discuss about our project. Today, we only create a blog and think of our group name.

Week 6 reflection Member: Chew Zheng Xiong

For today's lesson we will research more on the topics and make amendments to our script hoping it to be longer and more interesting for the audience to view.

Week 5 Reflection

We are doing our movie although we have not finished it yet. We will continue to work on it and try to hand it in by the March holidays.

Week 5 reflection Member: Chew Zheng xiong

we will be doing weekly reflections only until the March holidays which will by then we will complete our movie and show our teacher in charge before posting onto the blog.

Member: Chew Zheng Xiong Week4 WS

http://www.box.net/shared/q4op6s1bf6
Please Download The File in order to see it
Thank You

Next Meeting

Are we meeting on Thursday, 18 February 2010 to do our project?

Problems

I cannot open the global warming PowerPoint. Should I delete it?

Project planning!

For this week our group will be finishing up the worksheet that
has been given out the past few weeks and I will do the script
for the video.For next week, we will be recording the video
and post onto the blog. So let's do this...

Week 4 Reflection

I will now start to write the script for the short movie with my group members. We will try to come out with good ideas. I hope that we will come out with a great movie.

Week 4 reflection member: chew zheng xiong

we shall now begin on the script for the movie and will finish
recording the movie before common test starts we hope we are able
to make it.

Change of plans

WE HAVE A CHANGE OF PLANS!
 Our group has changed our topic to:
Global warming and How To Be Environmentally Friendly
We are going to do a video on this two topics and
combine them into one video...

Week 3 reflection Member: Chew Zheng Xiong

My Group has done their work but don't know what happen all the files cannot be opened we are trying to solve the problem...

Global Cooling Part 2

Welcome to part 2 of global cooling...
We shall now introduce one factor of
the world that might cause global cooling
and that thing is super hot and you can die
touching it and what does that make you think
of?
VOLCANOES.
And you must be thinking, how could something this hot
cause the world to go into the next ice age and make us all die?
The types of volcanic eruptions and associated activity: phreatic eruptions (steam-generated eruptions), explosive eruption of high-silica lava (e.g., rhyolite), effusive eruption of low-silica lava (e.g., basalt), pyroclastic flows, lahars (debris flow) and carbon dioxide emission. All of these activities can pose a hazard to humans. Earthquakes, hot springs, fumaroles, mud pots and geysers often accompany volcanic activity.
Large, explosive volcanic eruptions inject water vapor (H₂O), carbon dioxide (CO₂), sulfur dioxide (SO₂), hydrogen chloride (HCl), hydrogen fluoride (HF) and ash (pulverized rock and pumice) into the stratosphere to heights of 16–32 kilometres (10–20 mi) above the Earth's surface. The most significant impacts from these injections come from the conversion of sulfur dioxide to sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄), which condenses rapidly in the stratosphere to form fine sulfate aerosols. The aerosols increase the Earth's albedo—its reflection of radiation from the Sun back into space - and thus cool the Earth's lower atmosphere or troposphere; however, they also absorb heat radiated up from the Earth, thereby warming the stratosphere. Several eruptions during the past century have caused a decline in the average temperature at the Earth's surface of up to half a degree (Fahrenheit scale) for periods of one to three years...
This will affect the whole earth as the sulfuric acid in the stratosphere spreads around the globe
as the wind from the southern and northern hemisphere spread it around...
So the badly affected countries will have food shortage and will cause an economic depression...
but scientist say that this is still not enough to make the earth to plunge into another ice age...
WHAT WILL?
It will be explained in the next topic...

Global Warming (something interesting I found)

Global Warming Part 2

Hi once again from the IPW group from MSHS
we are now going into part 2 of global warming

The temperature changes throughout the last century:
he most common measure of global warming is the trend in globally averaged temperature near the Earth's surface. Expressed as a linear trend, this temperature rose by 0.74 °C ± 0.18 °C over the period 1906–2005. The rate of warming over the last half of that period was almost double that for the period as a whole (0.13 °C ± 0.03 °C per decade, versus 0.07 °C ± 0.02 °C per decade). The urban heat island effect is estimated to account for about 0.002 °C of warming per decade since 1900.^[9] Temperatures in the lower troposphere have increased between 0.12 and 0.22 °C (0.22 and 0.4 °F) per decade since 1979, according to satellite temperature measurements. Temperature is believed to have been relatively stable over the one or two thousand years before 1850, with regionally-varying fluctuations such as the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age.
Based on estimates by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 was the warmest year since reliable, widespread instrumental measurements became available in the late 1800s, exceeding the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree. Estimates prepared by the World Meteorological Organization and the Climatic Research Unit show 2005 as the second warmest year, behind 1998. Temperatures in 1998 were unusually warm because the strongest El Niño in the past century occurred during that year.Global temperature is subject to short-term fluctuations that overlay long term trends and can temporarily mask them. The relative stability in temperature from 1999 to 2009 is consistent with such an episode.
 
 

The geographic distribution of surface warming during the 21^st century calculated by the HadCM3 climate model if a business as usual scenario is assumed for economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions. In this figure, the globally averaged warming corresponds to 3.0 °C (5.4 °F).

If this is to continue WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE. why? I'm going to explain it in the next part.

The new picture!

Hi for those who have been viewing our blog we have just taken and uploaded our group photo and finally those slackers have finally got serious. I will still do the posting for the blog while anton and chin jie will do power-points for the topics and then i will post onto the blog. Benedict will search for pictures on the topic. LET'S DO THIS

Week 2 reflection Member:Chew Zheng Xiong

I have done all the work for this week including
part 1 for global warming and cooling and i wish
the group will just stop slacking and start helping
me. They do not take the initiative to ask me how
can they help me.

Your class?

You left out which class you are from...

Global Warming Part 1

Welcome to the first part of global warming! In this group, I, Chew Zheng Xiong has been doing all the work. Despite having internet at home the others just slack...but never mind I must get the marks myself.

Firstly, What is Global warming and how did it started?
Global Warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) between the start and the end of the 20th century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century was caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases resulting from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation.

What are the possible effects on the Earth?

An increase in global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, probably including expansion of subtropical deserts.Warming will be strongest in the Arctic and will be associated with continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely effects include increases in the intensity of extreme weather events, species extinctions, and changes in agricultural yields.

Political and public debate continues regarding global warming, and what actions (if any) to take in response. The available options are mitigation to reduce further emissions; adaptation to reduce the damage caused by warming; and, more speculatively, geoengineering to reverse global warming. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

As there is still many things to write on Global Warming so I will stop part 1 here...

Global Cooling Part 1

Hi to everyone and welcome to the part 1 of global cooling and there will be also parts on global warming here to come.

Firstly, The Earth had been hit with global cooling a while back and I mean a few thousand years ago where as you know was the Ice Age. If you have seen the movie Ice Age you think is funny and nice but actually is not.

The Ice Age denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. An ice age is a natural system. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of extra cold climate are termed "glacial periods" (or alternatively "glacials" or "glaciations"), and intermittent warm periods are called "interglacials". Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in the ice age that began at the start of the Pleistocene (because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist).

The Earth's orbit as everyone thought is always round, which scientists had proven that we are WRONG. The earth orbit according to scientist has been transforming from almost round to oval shape. So, when the Earth's orbit is almost oval, we experience very cold and hot temperatures.But for the last ten thousand years, we have been experiencing very good temperatures for use to live in which scientist say that it is not very good. If we do not experience the temperature change throughout the years, it means that if the Earth's orbit has become oval there will be a second Ice Age. Crops will fail, people and animals will die due to the extreme cold temperatures. How did the scientists find out? They dug out ice cores from the Greenland, the arctic, antarctica and places that snow throughout the years. But this is not only the reason that suggest that global cooling is coming. I will explain the other factors in the next part...

GRACE WS2

What is our topic?
Global warming and cooling
What do I know about this topic?
Global warming and global cooling is
affecting each other.
What subject skills can I make of?
Research and Analysis
Team Work
ICT skills
Where can I find information for our project?
Google, Yahoo and other Internet search engines
What do I want to tell others of my project?
The Earth is dying we must stop doomsday from arriving!

Week 1 reflection Member: Anton Chan

We did not do a lot of work for the first week. We only created a blog and finished our first assignment. We will continue to do our best for the next few weeks.

Week 1 reflection Member:Chew Zheng Xiong

We will be doing our GRACE WS 2 today and we will decide a topic by today also
I already have an idea for the project if no one objects then we will go on with it.

GRACE WS1

Grace 1-4
Teacher-In-Charge: Mr. Nicholas Koh
Topic: Global Warming and Cooling
Group Name: Something and Random
Group Members: Benedict Tan Chong Xin
Anton Chan Siu tong
Chau Chin Jie
Chew Zheng Xiong