Module VII

Explain
This  weeks blogs covered some very important topics concerning the welfare of our state of Alaska and the people that depend on it for survival.  It is was really great to see younger people getting involved.  through this TD site:
Alaska Native Teens Help Researchers   we are able to see the changing of the arctic landscape; and it is scary.  The permafrost melting like it is just makes for a very uncertain future.  It is great that teens are getting involved to save and learn more about their environment. They are the leaders of tomorrow and they need to start getting involved to help learn and understand what is happening. With the change comes concern for the wildlife and lifestyle of the Arctic residents.  Their LIfestyle is at risk and who do you point the finger at?  We all are to blame one way or another and this was a really insightful section.

http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/ipy07_int_arcticatlas/

This site was pretty cool because it gave some different visual perspectives to the areas we are focused on.

Extend:

  This  is a pretty good website that I have used in the past for learning about the periodic table.Although the

TD one is pretty good too!  The peridoic table is a great research  project for students to make a brochure of what an element can be made up of and how it relates to the others.

This weeks readings and videos on greenhouse is one that affects all of us. It  is a very real situation that  worries me about what the world will be like for my children as they move into their teens and older.  As we all  learn to become more green and focus on ways to become less dependent on fossil fuels car manufacturers are becoming more aggressive with their hybrid fuel efficient vehicles.   

Here is a web page of how to use alternate energy vehicles and how they save your wallet and the planet. http://www.alternate-energy-sources.com/hybrid-cars.html

I previewed these blogs this past week:

Kevin's  site had some good information on whether there has been global warming in his experience.

carolyn's blog was interesting because she found a connection with how she grew up and the river was full of PCB's as compared to native Alaskans and the importance of their waterways.

Lila's web page is pretty awesome! She has some good things in there for me to learn from..and I found out she is expecting a baby any day now.