How the Earth Was Made - Wesley's Reflection

Climate Change

In the Earth’s history, the climate has changed continually. Once the Earth was a ball of fire, then it became a ball of snow. Now it’s a world of water and continents. The climate is was really hot because of the volcanic activity.  The volcanoes released carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere. This greenhouse gas caused the global warming. The result was a dramatic climate change.  Dinosaurs adapted to the warm climate because they had Luke-warm blood, they used their energy to grow. The dinosaurs were killed by a collision of a large meteor that struck the Earth – but what really killed them was the climate change.  The climate continued to change, even when humans first began to populate Earth. Earth’s climate was cold because of the ice ages. Humans had to adapt to this challenge. Now, human production of greenhouse gases has caused climate change to occur again because of global warming. In the future humans must adapt to our changing  climate.

What I learned:

I learned about Rhodinea and plate tectonic activity.

I learned about the new super continent Pangea ultima.

I learned about the hunter-gathers.

 I learned about dinosaurs.

I learned how old the earth is.

I learned how to do proportion.

I learned about how the earth was made.

I learned about the earth history.

Project Steps:

The steps to we follow to do the timeline is do the proportion and scale, measure the earth’s age do the reflection

I liked…

My favorite we learned about the earth and were working in group to finish on time.

I disliked..

I dislike because didn’t finish on time and the people do not stay for tutoring time to finish your work.

 

 

 

How the Earth Was Made - Moustapha's Project Reflection

Gap between Ice Ages

Earth was made by millions of collisions of meteors. In the beginning the Earth looked like a fireball. I learned that the Earth was a molten ocean. It was made of hot lava from heavy volcanic activity. The same meteors that hit Earth for millions of years changed Earth from a fireball to water world because the meteors have 5%water.  After, the Earth began to solidify. 4.5 billions of years ago the planet Earth felt like the surface of the sun – this is called “Deep Time.”  Earth was a molten ocean; it was made of hot lava.  In Deep Time Earth was hit by millions of meteors from space. Each meteor contributed to the condensation of water that would trigger the greatest downpour the Earth would ever see. It rained for millions of years. Eventually the iron left the ocean green to blue; oxygen move down to the atmosphere downloaded the fixes. Because of plate tectonics, the continents on our planet have moved slowly and constantly for nearly 4.0 billion years.

The Earth’s history was bad and good because of its constant evolution. In the past the earth look like the surface of the sun, and in the future, it will die as a desolate, lifeless place. Before that the earth was going step by step, and dinosaur began to evolve; they became extinct because something terrible happened and the dinosaurs died. Earth has had several major challenges – organisms have always had to adapt to challenge in order to survive. The dinosaurs couldn’t, but humans could.

            Modern human arrived between gap and ice ages the modern human was 0.0001% percent began in Africa called (hominids) , scientists have found  record of ancient human migration in the DNA of living people .The human genetic code , or genome is 99.9% identical throughout the world.

Human civilization has occurred during a gap between ice ages. Earth has transformed to a world of fire to ice. Earth has had several ice ages due to plate tectonics. Several times, the continents have moved and blocked warm ocean currents that made the poles very cold. These climate changes made life very difficult and cold on Earth. Human civilization fraction, fraction of 1 % first hominid human lived in Africa. Scientist thought that every came from Africa and we have a different DNA. Two poles were so cold. The ice get challenge to the warmer world, everything changes to warm. Climate change cause by the global warming. Oxygen and carbon dioxides is also the major challenges.

What I learned from our project about earth evolution or/ earth history.

    The earth evolution is an incredible world that have life and surrounding by water / ocean and the sun shinning rotate the planet earth. South America and Africa was stick together and Africa and Europe formed two Childs. Rhodinea position was blocking and new super continent arrived in the planet earth. also newly arrived to the continent and the continent was stick together and separate apart because of the evolution or moving slowly of the earth. ocean began to came , and development of human began to arrived. more constantly and energy began ,planet earth was fabulous because of human energy dominated the planet earth. the planet earth is the only planet has life.

I like... 

discussion

scale

proportion

working group

focus

listening

making a list

collaboration

 

I disliked...           

speaking other language

interrupted

no listening 

How the Earth Was Made - Aminata's Project Reflection

Evolution

This is how the earth was made in 4.5 billion years ago earth was a big ball of fire and lava it was made of millions of meteors. Earth was a molten ocean it was made of hot lava then the earth began to solidify, earth was as hot as the surface of the sun. The earth’s oceans arrived from above extraterrestrial meteors the material from which the earth was formed. Water come from space and changed the planet dramatically. The result would be a water world. Granitoid protocotinents grew larger. They would form the hearts of major landmasses. The dominance of the oceans was over – the continents arrived and when we had more and more O2. The sky and oceans changed from green and red to blue. The continents moved together because of plate tectonics, making super continent Rhodinea. Rhodinea’s huge size blocked the warm ocean currents from the equator. The cold temperatures froze the Earth and created Snowball Earth – Earth was frozen solid, lifeless like a frozen desert. Volcanic eruption broke rhodinea apart. CO2 from the volcanoes created global warming which melted the frozen earth. Now life could finally exist. Many organisms lived and died for example the dinosaurs. In order to evolve organisms must adapt to climate and changes in their environment. So far, human have adapted to ice ages conditions, but we have live for only a fraction of fraction of 1% of Earth’s history.

What I learned from our project

Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
At 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was a big ball of fire and lava
Earth was as hot as the surface of the sun.
Earth was covered in thick blanketing clouds of water vapor that condensed in the atmosphere to trigger the greatest downpour the earth would ever see. It rained for million and million years.
The rain began to form the oceans small volcanic islands stuck out of the new oceans
The Earth was formed by millions of collisions of meteors.
Earth had huge green oceans because they were iron rich from volcanism and a red sky because there was no O2.
The earth oceans arrived from above, water came from space.
Water changed the planet dramatically
Continents were born from millions of years of volcanic activity.
Earth was once made entirely of granite and water.
The oceans changed from green to blue.
The sky changed from red to blue when oxygen from stromatolytes filled the air.
Earth was once a snow ball, all covered with ice.
Continent are always moving.
Super continent were formed by colliding tectonic plates. This is how we got mountains.
When earth was a snow ball it felt desolate life less place.
Now that we have iron rich and O2 life can finally exist.
Volcanic activity split the super continents apart
Africa and South America were stuck together.
Listening and taking notes
How to scale a time line
How to solve Proportion
To work in group
The planet earth will die in plus 2 billion years in the future.

What I dislike in our project

That earth was a big ball of fire and lava.
Earth was as hot as the surface of the sun.
Earth was hot over 200 deg F.
That the oceans were green and the sky was red.
The earth was a like a snow ball.
Earth was a desolate lifeless place.
Life started deep down in the oceans.
Human are a fraction of fraction of 1%of earth’s history.
The planet Earth will die.
Humans are ruining our environment by causing climate change from greenhouse gas emissions.

What I liked in our project

When it started raining
When the oceans were formed
It rained for million and million years.
The blue sky and blue oceans
The water world
Water changed the dramatically
When continent arrived
When Africa and South America was stock together
I enjoyed making our class timeline.
I also liked using proportions to create our project to scale.

How the Earth Was Made - Djan's Reflection

I learned that the Earth was made by millions of collisions of meteors and that in the beginning the Earth was a ball of fire. Lava covered the entire surface of the Earth, and when meteors arrived it changed the world’s climate. Some scientists think that meteors brought water to Earth because they are made of nearly 5% water. This condensing water created a downpour that lasted millions of years. The result is the oceans we see today.

The climate continued to change a lot. When the dinosaurs ruled the Earth it was hot, which helped the dinosaurs to grow because they put their energy to growing instead of maintaining their temperature. The climate was much warmer than today, and the dinosaurs had every thing they needed to survive. They became extinct because they couldn’t adapt to the challenge of living in a cooler world after the Earth was hit by a large meteor. The meteor hit the Earth the caused a mass extinction. The sky filled with CO2 and the dinosaur didn’t know where to go for food. There was no light and the dinosaur became extinct – but this is how mammals came to be. Later, mammals became the dominant species on the planet. Humans evolved from Africa about 2 million years ago from Hominids.

I learned from this project that the Earth has had many challenges. First, it was a ball of fire, then a water world, later, a snow ball, then the dinosaurs, and then human life. Scientists believe that human do not have not much time on our planet. They believe that humans have evolved quickly and that humans are destroying the world with pollution from CO2 GREEN HOUSE gases.

I believe if you want learn it is so easy, but you need to focus on your teacher. I am telling you, for this project I learned many things about how to do proportions, time lines, graphs, and most importantly, how to work in group and how talk to others while collaborating.

Our Earth History Project in Pictures

Showing Off What We Know - Corridor Timeline

The Amazins had a rough week. We battled through March and finally made it to Spring Break on fumes. We began our Corridor Timeline - our timeline of Earth history to scale. The Amazins worked on the algebraic expressions of proportions to determine how we could bring Earth's age down to scale. Through this exercise we'll review all of the major events of Earth evolution.

We'll follow the same process to establish our proportional expression. I can't wait for the rest of the school to see.

Over Spring Break the Amazins are invited to join me for extra credit to build our timeline.

Algebra has the answer!

Have you ever seen such diligent students? The Amazins have been hard at work over the last two and a half weeks on listening and note taking tasks associated with the History Channel special "How the Earth Was Made". It's a fascinating movie that details the Earth long evolution from a firery ball of lava to the life giving, oxygen-rich planet we call home.

The Amazins will use the information they have learned and noted on their Extended Anticipatory Guide and many Compare and Contrast Matrices to complete the next steps of their portfolio project.

Our next step is most exciting. After writing a short essay (using our Stoplight Paragraph writing structure) about the evoltion of our planet, the Amazins will engage in a bulletin board project for the ages!

How can we represent the Earth's age down to scale? How can we demonstrate how long our planet has been around? How can we WOW our classmates by showing them what DEEP TIME really looks like?

ALGEBRA!

Yes - ALGEBRA!

The Amazins will use proportions to bring the 4.5 billion years of Earth's existence down to scale. What will that look like? How can this help us prepare for our upcoming Integrated Algebra Regents?

Well, what if 1 foot of string represented 100,000 years. How many feet of string would be needed to represent all 4.5 billion years of Earth's life?

The Amazins will solve for x, and then create a real, scaled timeline of the Earth's tumultuous life for all students and staff to marvel at.

Check back over spring break for pictures and developments!

American Museum of Natural History...

Young scientists kicking off our big inquiry portfolio project in Earth and human evolution and adaptation at the American Museum of Natural History. Check out the awesome Blue Whale in the background!

March Together...

Our blog has taken a little break, but our class certainly hasn't! Djan is showing off our class's bulletin board that proudly displays the result of all our hard work from last term. While haven't yet received word from Congressman Serrano about out letters, we've moved ahead to solve our next big inquiries.

In fact, we've had a long, hard March together. We have recently completed the first few steps in our current portfolio project on human and earth evolution, climate and adaptation. Our guiding questions are

• Who are humans and how did we get here?
• How have humans adapted to their environment?
• How has environment shaped the way that humans interact with one another?
• How has the Earth evolved over time?
• How have humans, and other organisms adapted to these changes?

Our next posts will outline our work towards completing our portfolio project for earth and human evolution and adaptation.

Finally!

We're finally done!  Today we signed our letters to Congressman Serrano - hopefully he will read them and consider our suggestions to reduce the impact of human interaction on the environment.  We learned a lot through this process, but we're really excited to move on to new and exciting units.  Next we will investigate the following questions:

• Who are humans and how did we get here?
• How have humans adapted to their environment?
• How has environment shaped the way that humans interact with one another?

Frankie's Project Reflection...

The first thing I did was find evidence from the article “Arctic Ivory” by Paul Nicklen from National Geographic. I annotated the article for important information, and I used organizers like the Adaptation Organizer and Extended Anticipatory Guide to collect and analyze evidence. Next, I listened to a video podcast called “Polar Palooza” from National Geographic. I learned about the arctic guillemots are bird that need pack ice to survive because its food lives there. The ice is melting, and the arctic guillemot doesn’t have food because its food lives near park ice.  The guillemots are in danger because climate change has affected how it hunts food. On my third step, I didn’t do the Web Quest. Our fourth step, was to collect data about over-hunting the narwhal. It helped me demonstrate how he narwhal populations are declining in the arctic. I did tables and charts using MS Excel. We explained how many narwhals were killed per year and sunk & lost. Step four helped me to demonstrate about what is happening in the arctic and what we need to do to save them. Next, I learned how to create a thesis statement. I created a question from the essay task, then I responded to the question to create my thesis statement. Then I created a argument using my table organizer. Then I created my topic sentences to support my thesis statement. My sixth step was to start writing about my project with my web outline. This helped me to plan my essay to start writing. My outline helped me organize my essay so that my paragraphs are persuasive. My seventh step I started to write my draft. It was my first try and I used my supporting detail to help me be more convincing. In my final draft I inserted charts with my group. To form the final body paragraph, I typed the essay into the computer and I sent the essay to Mr. Blackburn. The purpose was to convince Congressman Serrano to endorse legislation to protect the arctic narwhal. 

What did you learn from this experience?

a)-writing letter

b)-essay by support my thesis statement

c)-graph

d)-listening to the ipod

e)-taking note

f)-summarization, annotation, quantitative in information

What part did you like?

The part that I liked was the narwhal population data. I liked to create graphs on Microsoft Excel to prove to Mr. Serrano that he should endorse legislation to save the narwhal and the arctic environment.

What parts did you dislike? The part that I dislike was that the guillemots are dying because the global warming is affecting the food they get to eat. 

Wesley's Project Reflection

The first thing that I did was find evidence from the New York Times Upfront Magazine article “On thin Ice”, by Andrew Revkin. I used an Extended Anticipatory Guide, annotation and the Adaptation Organizer to collect evidence from my article. I used evidence from the article to write my essay.  Next, I watched the video pod cast called “Polar Palooza”. I learned that the ice is melting in artic, I also learned that guillemots they don’t have food because it follows the pack ice. I looked for polar bear information in the internet, and then I learned about polar bear habitat. I used my Web Quest organizer to learn about polar bears and environment. The information I learned helped me write supporting details.  I learned how to make graphs with quantitative data. First, I made data tables and then I made graphs to measure sea ice and polar bear populations. The graph helps provide information for our supporting details. We used the details to persuade congressman Serrano. On our fifth step, we created a research question, then we responded to question to make a thesis statement.  We established our argument using the table organizer then we created topic sentences. The outline helped me organize my topic sentences and supporting details. The outline is my plan for my essay.  I used text and chart evidence to support my thesis statements. This must be complete draft of the paper. I did my first draft about climate change, melting arctic pack ice as a result or global warming. This is what I used in my body paragraph. I used the information from “Polar Palooza” and polar bear data. We were working in groups, each one of my classmates wrote a body paragraph. Then we put it together and put the graph. When we put the work together our essay was easy to read.

I learned how to write an essay and take notes from a listening task, work in a group, listen for information from an iPod, climate, global warming, and arctic pack ice, Congressman José E Serrano, how to write a paragraph.

I liked to write to Congressman José E Serrano because I could find information about the polar bears.  I disliked the project because I had to look for information and make conclusions. 

Aminata's Project Reflection

I first collected evidence by article annotation, extended anticipatory guide, adaptation organizer the article I read was the New York Times Up Front magazine “On Thin Ice” by Felicity Barringer and Andrew C. Revkin. This helped me write my essay and finding allot of evidence about climate change and polar environment. Second I watch video from an ipod I learned how to listen and take note according to the video I watched and took note, polar bears were starving in Barrow, Alaska in summer they had to eat the grass because was no ice at that time. Every summer Georg divoky visits Barrow, Alaska to help polar bears and guillemots. The video also mentioned about pack ice that  in 1975 it was 7 miles away from Barrow and now it is 250 miles away.  From this video task I learned things that I didn’t know before and that helped me write my essay. Third I researched I went to Google then wrote web quest polar bears. According to the web quest polar bears. The information that helped me write my essay were polar bears were built for the wind; cold, and ice, polar bears need ice to survive. I learned Allot about polar bears. and know that they need help from melting ice.fourt I created tables and charts using m s excel to show that just by looking at the charts you’ll know what my essay is about you know about sea ice and polar beats. Fifth I came up with a research question to create my argument using the table organizer and my topic sentences to support my thesis statement. This helped me understand my supporting details. Sixth I created an out line using test and chart evidence to support my thesis statement this helped me organize my essay. Seventh I did my first graft about climate change and arctic pack ice. Some information about my first graft is melting ice is result of global warming. Polar bears have lost their sea ice habitat from melting ice this helped me learned allot about climate change. Then me and me and my class mate work on our final draft we putted all our works from the project together. This helped me because each one of as did a deferent part of the project, then put it together. Thanks to my class mate yes we did it.

 

                                             What I learned

 

      Climate change in the arctic has caused melting ice, which has led to a decline in polar bear populations because of habitat loss. Arctic pack ice is melting as a result of global warming, global warming is caused least partly by the atmospheric built up of green house gasses from tailpipes and smokestacks. I also learned about carbon dioxide emissions, listening and taking notes, annotation, collecting evidence, how to take note in a web, how to use M S Excel, how to work in groups, what a thesis statement is and how to use it, do a organize table and organize essay with thesis statement and topic sentences.

 

    I liked collecting evidence, annotating, the web quest, video task, thesis statement, because I had fun doing it and learned whole lot from it.  I didn’t like the group work, creating the outline, doing the first draft, second draft, paper plan, peer revision and the reflection because I didn’t know how to do it and I don’t want to know about it.

Frankie's Project Reflection...

The first thing I did was find evidence from the article “Arctic Ivory” by Paul Nickel from National Geographic. I annotated the article for important information, and I used organizers like the Adaptation Organizer and Extended Anticipatory Guide to collect and analyze evidence. Next, I listened to a video podcast called “Polar Palooza” from National Geographic. I learned about the arctic guillemots are bird that need pack ice to survive because its food lives there. The ice is melting, and the arctic guillemot doesn’t have food because its food lives near park ice.  The guillemots are in danger because climate change has affected how it hunts food. On my third step, I didn’t do the Web Quest. Our fourth step, was to collect data about over-hunting the narwhal. It helped me demonstrate how he narwhal populations are declining in the arctic. I did tables and charts using MS Excel. We explained how many narwhals were killed per year and sunk & lost. Step four helped me to demonstrate about what is happening in the arctic and what we need to do to save them. Next, I learned how to create a thesis statement. I created a question from the essay task, then I responded to the question to create my thesis statement. Then I created a argument using my table organizer. Then I created my topic sentences to support my thesis statement. My sixth step was to start writing about my project with my web outline. This helped me to plan my essay to start writing. My outline helped me organize my essay so that my paragraphs are persuasive. My seventh step I started to write my draft. It was my first try and I used my supporting detail to help me be more convincing. In my final draft I inserted charts with my group. To form the final body paragraph, I typed the essay into the computer and I sent the essay to Mr. Blackburn. The purpose was to convince Congressman Serrano to endorse legislation to protect the arctic narwhal. 

What did you learn from this experience?

a)-writing letter

b)-essay by support my thesis statement

c)-graph

d)-listening to the ipod

e)-taking note

f)-summarization, annotation, quantitative information

The part that I liked was the narwhal population data. I liked to create graphs on Microsoft Excel to prove to Mr. Serrano that he should endorse legislation to save the narwhal and the arctic environment.  The part that I disliked was that the guillemots are dying because the global warming is affecting the food they get to eat. 

Moustapha Project Reflection

On my project I learned about arctic environment, habitat, the Inuit and the Narwhal.  I annotated the article “Arctic Ivory” by Paul Nickel from National Geographic for information. I used organizers like the Adaptation Organizer and Extended Anticipatory Guide to collect and analyze evidence. I listened to the video pod cast on an iPOD called “Polar Palooza” from National Geographic. I watched mammals and I took notes about the video. I learned about the narwhal with my group, and that the populations of narwhal are declining. Looking the narwhal information on the internet was tour class Web Quest. We found the evidence collection of narwhal, information about over hunting narwhal and to use the quantitative information. We created a graph about the narwhal to determine how many the Inuit kill the narwhal in each year. I typed my work in MS Word with the revisions of my drafts. I created graphs with quantitative information about narwhal hunts. Then I pasted the graphs into my final draft with my group. DDDT means declare, describe, discuss, and transition – this helped me organize my paragraphs and support my topic sentences. I learned about the narwhals are artic species, and that they live in the arctic. I showed Congressman Serrano all about narwhal hunting – hopefully he will endorse legislation to stop the hunting.

 

What did you learn from this experience?

a)-writing letter

b)-essay by support my thesis statement

c)-graph

d)-listening iPOD

 e) - taking note

f)-summarization, annotation, quatutative in formation

 

What parts did you like?

a)-Narwhal population data

b)-Create a graph in MICROSOFT EXEL

b)-write a letter

 

What parts did you dislike?

a) essay

b) sad story about narwhals

c) draft

Djan Project Reflection

The first thing that I did was find evidence from the article “On Thin Ice” by Andrew Revkin from the NY Times UpFront magazine. I annotated the article for important information, and then I used organizers like the Adaptation Organizers and Extend Anticipatory Guide that helped me to have more information for the polar bears to learn about arctic environment and habitat loss from melting ice because of pollution from carbon dioxide. This helped me find more information on the internet and to find results of the effects of pollution on the environment I learned in the video podcast “Polar Palooza” how the polar bear habitat is in danger from pollution of the carbon dioxide causing the global warming and melting ice. The video helped to get more information about polar bear habitat in the arctic. I also learned how to take notes from a listening task. In my third step I found information on the internet about polar bears’ lives in the arctic and find results of pollution on the environment.  It helped me write the introduction.  The fifth step evidence collection I collected data from my article and created tables and charts using MS Excel. I used data to create charts to show evidence for polar bear and sea ice data. Quantitative data helped me provide more information. I used the data for polar bears and sea ice the for my supporting details. I used an outline to plan my essay. I used the text and chart evidence to support my thesis statement and plan my essay. Then I wrote a complete draft. On the second draft I used the DDDT organizer to improve my essay be sure to include information from my web quest, video notes, and data.  For my final draft I revised my second draft and used the DDDT to provide more evidence.  We did this to persuade Congressman Serrano.  

I learned from this experience about how Polar bears live in arctic habitat and how they have lost the food because of environment is polluted with carbon dioxide.  The polar bear populations are in danger and declining. The result of the pollution from carbon dioxide the polar bear will die from habitat loss because they won’t be able to find food.

The part I liked was to find the results of the pollution on the environment. By stopping the production of carbon dioxide to save the polar bear population and to save the human life because the carbon is danger for the universe. I also liked to use the computer to make charts, graphs, research information and write my essay. Also, I liked to listen and watch the polar movies on the video iPod.

I didn’t like that polar bear populations are in decline and that the bears have lost habitat and food because of carbon dioxide production by human is dangerous for humans, animals, plants.

We're Almost Done!

It's true!  We're almost done! After weeks of hard work, Mr. Blackburn's Amazins' have submitteed their final drafts for their portfolio review. For the last week we've been hard at work on our project reflections.  Our guiding question this week was:

• What did you do in each step and how did it help you complete your writing task? 
  

Each student has reviewed their project step sheet to reflect on the processes they followed to complete their persuasive essay task.  It was a long, difficult process, and believe it or not, the reflection is hard too!  Look out for our next update when we post our reflections on the blog!

Data Collection and Analysis - How do we visually demonstrate quantitative information with MS Excel?

Data Collection and Analysis

What a week!  We've been hard at work on our Geography and Human Interaction Research Project. This week, the Amazins collected and analyzed climate and population data using MS Excel.  We learned all about data tables, formatting, and pivot charts to visually demonstrate quantitative data for the purpose of persuasion.  Above, you'll find some examples of how well they took to demonstrating their quantitative research.

Now we're on to defending our thesis statements with topic sentences.  We have established our respective points of view, and we're confident that we will be able to persuade Congressman Serrano, the Democratic Representative from our voting district, to act on our suggestions for legislation related to climate and environment. 

 This week we will learn all about MS Word and letter writing.  Only six more class days to finish our portfolios!

And we're off!

It's a snowy Saturday morning at IS229, our gracious host of today's STEM grant workshop for creating podcasts. My students, 7 great kids at the Fordham Leadership Academy for Business and Technology, have worked hard on this semester's climate portfolio project. We've used video iPods to watch climate-related podcasts to learn more about the arctic, climate change, and the effects humans rendered on the arctic environment.

How have humans impacted our environment? How does our environment affect us? Do we interact sustainibly with our environment? These are the questions we've set out to answer. Our portfolio project is a Regents Task II type persuasive essay. We have read National Geographic articles on climate, conducted Internet research on a Webquest, and learned about arctic climate change on video podcasts on our iPods. Now we're creating tables and charts in MS Excel to demonstrate just how arctic sea ice has melted over the course of the last 25 years (check out the cool image on the Smart Board).

Our work is nearly done, and the end-of-the-semester rapidly approaches! Our letter to Congressman Serrano will hopefully convince him to vote for measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions. That is our goal, and we have very much enjoyed working towards it.

Return for more news on Mr. B's Amazins and our progress this week!