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Friday, November 8, 2019

Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Leonie (van Os), a teacher of English, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. His brothers are actors Liam Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth. He is of Dutch from his immigrant maternal grandfather, Irish, English, Scottish, and German ancestry. His uncle, by marriage, was Rod Ansell, the bushman who inspired the film Crocodile Dundee (1986).


Chris saw quite a bit of the country in his youth after his family moved to the Northern Territory before finally settling on Phillip Island, to the south of Melbourne. In 2004, he unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Robbie Hunter in the Australian soap opera Home and away (1988) but was recalled for the role of Kim Hyde which he played until 2007. In 2006, he entered the Australian version of (2004) Dancing with stars and his popularity in the soap enabled him to hang on until show 7 (Dancing with stars eps #5.7 (2006) when he became the fifth contestant to be eliminated.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Hurumanu Climate Change and the Future


THURSD AY, OCTOBER 31, 2019


Hurumanu: Climate Change and the future

Aim; To look at the different ways we can prevent climate change in the future.



What places will be effected?
Antartica, Oceans

What else do we need to think about?
pacific islands

What other places around NZ will be affected?

What does this do to our drinking water?

What are the main concerns?
  1. The oceans  
  2. The sea animals dying

What can we do?
  1. Stop polusion 
  2. Don't litter
  3.  

What is the one, silver bullet solution?



What is the mix of things we need to start doing?
  1.   
  2.   

What are 3 others you can think of?
  1.   

  2.   
Activities:

Carbon Footprint

Carbon Footprint explained

Dwelling
Water
Recreation
Heating and cooling
Electricity
Transportation
Food
Waste
Air Travel
Consumption

Colour 1: for actions they are already doing 
Colour 2: for actions that they pledge to undertake in the future

Ecological Handprint The Ecological handprint builds on the concepts from the Carbon Footprint. We will look at the positive actions of:

  1. Transportation
  2. Community
  3. Consumption
  4. Water
  5. Food
  6. Home
  7. Waste


1 Colour: For each action you are already doing 
2 Colour: For each action you would like to do in the future

Carbon Footprint Pledge

My Carbon Footprint


Carbon Footprint explained ( Youtube)

Carbon Footprint handout

You will need:

  1. 2 different colouring pencils
  2. The Carbon Footprint Handout.
We will look at our Carbon Footprint under the following headings.


  • Dwelling
  • Water
  • Recreation
  • Heating and cooling
  • Electricity
  • Transportation
  • Food
  • Waste
  • Air Travel
  • Consumption


Colour 1: for actions, they are already doing 
Colour 2: for actions that they pledge to undertake in the future

List 5 of the actions you pledge to undertake in the future.

  1. Conserve water every chance I get
  2. Conserve Heating and Cooling every chance I get
  3. I enjoy carbon intensive
  4. I want to be a vegetarian
  5. I want to try to bike or walk every chance I get