Laura P #12 2010

Today we started watching a movie named "The age of stupid". This movie talks about how the world will be if we do not try to make a change in this world and it also talks about all of the bad things and the natural disasters that have happen in the past and that have affected us. One of the things that got my attention the most was that the company shell discovered this land which was very rich in petroleum so they just took over it and they did not give any money to the people that was living there the only thing that they did for them was a hospital but the company did not even finish because they said that if they take some doctors over there, they tough they where going to get kidnapped but that was just an excuse for them not to finish the hospital and because that land is really poor and they did not have a lot of things before now they have even less because of all of that carbon dioxide that is being released into the atmosphere their environment has been polluted and also because of the factories all of their fishes are dieing. I also saw on the video that because of what people are doing to the environment a lot of natural disasters have happen like for example one of the biggest hurricanes ever has been hurricane Catrina, and it has affected millions of people in a lot of ways like in money, family, and resources. I also saw a lot of things that help save the community and that help save energy like for example I saw this big place where they had some wind meals and they showed the size of one blade it and if he was compared to the blade he looked like a little ant compared to a human hand. Some of the people that where talking on the video think that the government does not do anything to try to stop the air pollution and all of those other bad things for us because of this, the only thing that they are doing is creating more fights over the world because they are not going to have the enough resources and because they are making people feel like of they have to buy more things. The author was telling the viewer his experience that he had while he was discovering the different things that effect the earth. One of the things that the author told us was that he feels that the world is a beautiful place and because of the people not doing anything to keep our resources, we are not going we are going to have them along with us for a long time. Because of some of the people where trying to reduce the air pollution they had a idea to stop using the cars and start using airplanes, this created the cost of the airplanes flights to be really cheap but this came out to be a total disaster because there was too much people trying to take airplanes. Everyone in the video including me think that if we all put our minds together to try to make a change in this world we could really make it happen and they also think that if we do not do anything to try to save the world the future generations are going to be blaming us for not protecting our environment. I really think that this was one of the best documentaries I have ever watched because it really made me feel like if I should do a difference in this world.

Laura P #11 2010

This are some of the websites that helped me on my research:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered
• http://www.conservation.org/act/get_involved/Pages/stoptheclock.aspx?gclid=CIrBv7eS36QCFSZl7AodBDG4KA
• http://www.naturecanada.ca/advocate/endangered_animals.html?gclid=CMf5sMOS36QCFcNe7Aod5xH0yg#causes
• http://www.50birds.com/extan/gextanimals1.htm
• http://www.animalport.com/extinct-animals/Extinct-Animals.html

my name is laura and I will really like my game to be in endangered species and specially about white tigers. I will really love my game to be focus on white tigers because they is only a little of white tigers left in this world and maybe if I do this game it will encourage people to help save the white tigers from extinction. I really think that this web pages are going to help me on my research for my game because they have a lot of good information on them and also because they are very specific in my topic for my game.

Laura P #10 2010

Internet citation organizer

source 1:
columbia university
climate and society
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/2124
2005
10/11/10


source 2:
the pew charitable trust
the pew charitable trust
http://www.pewtrust.org/
1996-2010
10/11/10


source 3:
sustainable earth, sustainable future
global warming
http://www.globalwarming.com/
2010
10/11/10

source 4:
.eco
.eco
http://www.supportdoteco.com/
2009
10/11/10

game design competition!!!!

Group members: Diana Aguirre and Laura Plascencio

Both of us are so exited to enter this competition and we have alot fo ideas and knowledge in order to be the winners in this competition. We would love to be the winners because we hope that if we win other sudents around the world are going to be inspired to do something like us and they are goign to be studying and practicing more things that have to do with math, science, and thechnology.

The topic that we will like to focus on is in the Tropical Rainforest. We would like to focus on this because it it really important to conserve our planet and specially where nature comes from. we will incoorporate math and also science in this soccial issue topic so that people can learn and also have fun while they are playing our game.

Laura P #9 2010

"How to properly cite internet resources?"

• Author. Tittle of website. Web address or URL. Copyright date. Date you found the information.

Example:

ThinkQuest: Explorers of the millenium.

http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/dagama.html.

Found on october 7, 2010.

• My own example

creative comment

Laura P #8 2010

coral reef adventure

I watched a video yesterday called "coral reef adventure" and i think that this video was very interesting because it give a lot of good information about coral reef and also because it will tell interesting facts about them that some people didn't knew about them. Here are some of the facts that they mention on the video:

• Coral reefs protect all of the tropical seas.
• Coral reefs are made out of tiny little animals.
• More than 300 million people rely on the reefs.
• Doctors use the minerals of the Coral reefs to cure our bones.
• The "great barrier reef" is the biggest one of all.
• Over fishing destroys the fishes because they need the fishes in order for them to be able to grow in a good habitat.
• Scientist think that by 30 years if we do not do anything to try to save the coral reefs that we have now they are going to disappear.
• Thanks to coral reefs they have found fish species never seen before.

A good example to be able to tell a little more about the coral reef is the titanic because I do not know if you have heard of it but I'm pretty sure you have and when they found the titanic boat under the ocean the found coral reef growing out of the titanic. This is one of the reasons that the coral reefs gets affected because we are contamination our oceans. I really think that we should all get together and try to make a change by going into islands and telling people the reason why we should be protecting the beauty of the coral reef. Here is a website if you will like to make a change on the coral reef: http://coralfilm.com/