Homework: Desalination

Hi Guys,

After many discussions today on various scientific processes, it was clear that the meaning of ‘desalination’ needed clarification. For homework, I thought it would be a good idea if we further investigated the meaning of ‘desalination’ and how this scientific process helps the world we live in. Research, read or listen to any recent newspaper article, blog or you tube video about ‘desalination’ and post a comment about any ‘new learning’ that occurred for you. Please make sure you don’t simply  define ‘desalination’ in your blog post, as we already talked about this in class today.

Thanks guys for being a  great and confident bunch of students to work with.  Hopefully I get to have you again soon!

Miss Jacqui 🙂

Homework: Being scientists with the future in mind…

This is  Paula’s comment from yesterday’s homework.

• What do you think of what she is saying?
• Can you think of examples of inventions that do seem to “think” about the future?
• Can you think of a way to make something so that it is not harmful to our world in the future?

shark fin soup poster

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please try looking at it and try getting people you know to look at it

Comics about bullying

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This is my comics from the exibition.

Homework: Science’s effect on our planet

Watch this clip from the movie called “Manufactured Landscapes”.

Make comments to tell us what responsibility you think scientists have and how you think humans could use their scientific knowledge.

Australia

This holiday, I went to Australia it was really great. I went to see loads of beautiful mountains with beautiful sights and forests. I find that Australia is a country with a lot of nature, trees, rainforests. Beaches and Surfing are great fun too, once I was walking on the beach and I saw these surfers on sea doing these amazing tricks where they would shoot up on the air and then go back down. There were also wind surfers which I also found really cool. My family went on so much walks, in the mountains, forests and in the beach. Walks were great because you were always surrounded by nature and it felt great to be able to climb trees again. Though I found the temperature quite cold in Australia because I have lived so long in warm countries like Thailand and India. We were in Australia for a whole 15 days. We rented a big campimg van where you can actually live in with the beds, toilets, showers and even a proper kitchen. Australia is great fun you should go some time.

How can science make you wise?

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Our guest speaker, Thom Henley, said this:

“We are educating kids to be smart, but we’re not educating kids to become wise.”

I think that the difference between smart and wise is : being smart involves knowing things, but being wise is being able to use what you know in order to improve your life.

Thom told us the story of how people who pass their stories on orally (by the elders telling them to the young people) all survived the 2004 Tsunami because they knew what to do. Meanwhile, lots of very “smart” people died because they did the opposite!

How can knowing about science help you to improve your life? Give us some examples.

Your “Significant Things”

I have challenged you to do 5 Significant Things with your work from the PYP Exhibition:

How is it going? What Significant Things have you achieved so far? What Significant Things are you working on at the moment? How do you know these things are actually significant?

Google art project

This link is a link to a google project called google art project. It lets you explore museums and look at paintings so close that you can see the brush strokes and on multimedia pictures you can see what they are made of.

http://www.googleartproject.com/

Homework: What interests you?

Watch this video two times. The first time, just watch it. The second time, get ready to write down the type of science that looks most interesting to you – the technical words are quite complex so you might want to pause the video so you can write it down and spell it accurately.

Then, find out a little bit more about that type of science using a search engine.

Make a comment to tell us the type of science that looks most interesting to you and why.