Month: May 2017

Drama Journal

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Here you can see my drama journal for the whole of the semester. It recaps things like what we did that week in class and what I enjoyed or what I disliked about what we did. The journal helps us to reflect and improve on what we did. It also shows us how much we’ve improved since the beginning of the semester.

Polar Bear: Issues and Solutions Infographic

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Polar bears populations are declining at a rate that’s sure to put them extinct or at least close to extinction in the next few decades. Scientists are even predicting that the polar bear populations will drop by 30% by the year 2050. The main culprit? Global warming. Global warming is warming up temperatures in the Arctic faster than before and with that warming, the sea ice extent has been melting at a rate of 14% every decade since the 1980s.

Reducing the amount of time polar bears have with the sea ice allows them less time to hunt and store up fat for the summer months. With the melting sea ice, it’s causing longer periods of time without sea ice and that creates problems for polar bears like reproductive failure or starvation. These are all problems caused by manmade pollution.

To combat this problem, people are obviously going to need to start producing less carbon dioxide (to reduce global warming). There are some ways you can do this like using more public transportation, (or just walking/biking more) remembering to recycle items, using more energy efficient products, not using as much air conditioning and countless more solutions. However, this will require a global effort which means governments and country leaders will need to take more action in regards to this issue. Everyone needs to participate and put in effort if they want to truly make a difference in global warming and to do that, countries need to make laws and rules to encourage their people to save the planet. Putting more effort into reducing global warming will not prove to be beneficial towards to countries however. Their factories will go through economic loss if they can’t use as much CO2 as before to produce their products. Consumers of these products will also not be satisfied because there are fewer products to buy and more demand for this product, possibly driving up inflation. The countries will not really benefit that much from reducing the amount of CO2 factories can use unless they can come up with some alternative source of energy that will 1, be able to be found easily and 2, not contribute to global warming.

Global warming is such an important and seemingly impossible to fix issue that people start to wonder if it’s already too late for us to save what’s left. Is putting in global effort really too big of a problem for us to save the polar bears?

Exploring Twitter: Hashtags And Organisations

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For this assignment, we’re exploring twitter to find out different ways and organizations to help out our organism.

Here are some hashtags that are connected to Polar Bears on twitter:

KAS Hashtags:

– #KASendangered
This hashtag is fairly broad and is used by all the 7th graders to share their information on their endangered species. We’re able to reach the whole 7th grade through this hashtag.
– #KASeaPolar
This hashtag is for everyone who has polar animals to connect with each other and mutually share ideas and with each other. Using this hashtag, we’re able to communicate information and connect to other 7th graders who are also researching about polar animals/polar habitats.

Twitter hashtags:

– #endangeredspecies
This hashtag is important and useful because it’s not only used by people in KAS, but official organizations and scientists who like the spread word of the latest news/findings through this hashtag.

– #polarbear
Using #polarbear on twitter, you will see that in addition to lots of graphs and data on climate change, cute little pictures of polar bears also show up in the hashtag. The hashtag is frequently used by a wide variety of different people, including scientists who talk about global climate change or declining sea ice extents, but also regular people who are interested in preserving the species. Through this hashtag, you will be able to reach out towards a lot of different users who want to help conserve the species.

– #globalwarming
This hashtag is useful for a lot of species, especially the polar bear because it is such a big problem that’s affecting the world. It mainly affects species that have their habitats set in ice or oceans, (like the polar bear) but it indirectly affects many other species as well. In this hashtag, you can find out more about how global warming is damaging their habitats.

– #conservation
The conservation hashtag provides a lot of helpful tips and information on what you can do to help a species.

 

Organizations on Twitter:
National Geographic: National Geographic has a lot of new, up to date information on the latest news in science. Including news stories on conservation efforts and declining species.

WWF: The World Wide Fund for Nature, is a dedicated organization that focuses on protecting habitats and different species. They communicate their information out to the public in a fun way that attracts the average readers’ attention and provokes them to help.

Animal Protection: The Animal Protection twitter page tweets and retweets “highlights” or the most intriging animal stories from all different articles.