Thursday, February 26, 2009
Facts: We finished all the worksheets that we have not finished yet.
Ideas: We are coming up with the questions for the online survey.
Learning issues: I want to know how to improve the environment for animals in Singapore.
Action plan: We are going to conduct an online survey.
Done by: Sean Heng (12) 2D
7:06 AM
Facts : We have completed our survey and most of our worksheets.
Idea : We are going to start designing our product
Learning Issues : We hope to get more people to do our survey.
Action plan : We are going to call random people to get more people to do our survey.
Done By: Aaron chow (10 )
6:56 AM
Facts: We all chipped in to finalize al our worksheets
Ideas: I could start to come up with survey questions and in what format
Learning Issues: I want to learn how to use online surveys
Action Plan: I could start to create an online survey so i can speed up our work
Done By: Ming Yao (9) 2D
sry my internet will be down until 4 March 2009 so my post could not come in yesterday.
6:54 AM
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
This is our worksheet for the 2nd lesson:
Done By: Life Preservers 9-12 (2D)
9:46 AM
9:34 AM
This is the worksheet for the 3r lesson:
Done By: Life Preservers 9-12 (2D)
7:07 AM
Friday, February 20, 2009
Facts: We have planned out the questions for our survey
Idea: We are going to conduct an online survey
Learning Issues: I want to find out what people actually think about how the weather affects nature reserves
Action plan: We are trying to improve our survey
Done by : Aaron Chow (10)
Sorry for late reflection was busy
9:56 AM
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Facts: We are getting ready the questions that we are going to ask in the survey.
Idea: We are going to conduct the survey online and maybe random calls
Learning issues: I want to find out what other people think about the animal habitats
Action plan: We have come up with what we are doing in the survey.
Done by: Sean Heng (12) 2D
5:04 PM
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Facts: Our team is now thinking of what questions to set for the survey.
Idea:We should try to get everything done by the MArch holidays so we will have time to plan for the report and presentation.
Learning Issues: The final product is related to the research we are doing on.
Action plan: My group has thought of what to do for the final product and survey questions.
By Darrin
10:50 PM
Fact: We have came up with other ways of doing the survey.
Idea: I think i should come up with survey questions to speed up our work.
Learning Issues: I want to learn to find out more about the final product that we are doing.
Action Plan: I have come up with survey questions for our group to refer to.
Done By: Ming Yao (9) 2D
7:05 PM
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Facts: We have finished our research and are doing the work that we did not finish during the previous lessons.
Ideas: We should try to finish the work as fast as possible and plan for the next lesson.
Learning issues: We need to have a rough idea of the final product.
Action plan: I will do the work allocated to me and think about the final product.
Done by: Darrin
11:09 PM
Facts : We all have completed our research and now working on our worksheets that we have not completed yet.
Ideas : Hopefully we can complete all of our worksheets quickly.
Action Plan : I will be pushing my group to do the worksheets and encourage them to cooperate.
Learning Issues : I wonder how we are going to manage our presentation.
Done by: Aaron Chow ( 10 )
1:14 PM
Worksheet for 1st lesson:
Done By: Ming Yao (9) 2D
1:11 PM
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
This is my reflection on lesson 6:
Ideas: I think we can quickly finish our worksheets and try to start on the next lesson.
Learning Issues: i want to know how our final product is going to be like.
Action Plan: I could go on the internet to find some ideas on doing our final product.
Done By: Ming Yao (9) 2D
8:55 PM
How has the environment affected the food diets and food chains of the animal habitat?
Animals are adapted to eat the food that is in the environment that they live in. If there is a new animal introduced into the environment, the whole food chain and diets of animals living in that environment originally might be affected.
How does greenhouse gases affect the animals and their habitats?
The pollution that causes global warming is linked to acid rain. Acid rain gradually destroys almost everything it touches. Global warming is also causing many more fires that wipe out whole forests. This happens because global warming can make the earth very hot. In forests, some plants and trees can be so dry that they catch on fire.
The balance of gases in the habitat of animals.
Animals breathe in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide but trees breathe in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen when they photosynthesize, so the balance between these two gases is quite fixed, but due to greenhouse gases, the amount of carbon dioxide is slowly increasing and the amount of oxygen is slowly decreasing.
The intensity of light in the habitats of animals
Light filtered in from the canopy is the most variable physical factor in the forests, both in space and time.
Done by: Sean Heng (12) 2D
6:40 PM
Problems faced by Singapore Nature Reserve
-Singapore Nature Reserve had to have a capital and funds to develop the habitat of the nature reserve to make it suitable for certain species to make their homes in
-Visitors and tourist littered and frightened away many species of animals in the main catchment in Singapore Nature reserve.
-Visitors and tourist also destroyed the habitats due to curiousity and mischief. They also fed the animals with food that they should not have consumed or eaten.
-During the rainy season, the soil became waterlogged and it caused many of the plants there to wither and die indirectly causing harm to the animal's habitat.
-When there is a heavy storm, trees get blown and their trunks fall and indirectly destroy animal habitats and block the pathway.
-The ph level of the water also had to be taken in consideration for certain species to survive and adapt accordingly.
Done by Aaron chow ( 10 )
9:40 AM
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Facts: After choosing and dividing the guiding questions in the previous lesson, my group started on researching them today.
Ideas: We thought of doing a terrarium as our final product and visiting the nature reserve for more information.
Learning issues: I realise that the questions i picked were not that easy and had quite a hard time on researching them. Although in the end, i managed to complete 1 of them.
Action plan: I have to complete the other guiding question so that we have a basic information about the topic we are doing.
BY: Darrin
1:08 PM
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
This is the research i've come up so far.
How Has the weather changed over the past few years?
- Average Temperature = 25 - 31 degrees Celsius
- Thunderstorm 40% of 365 days
- Relative humidity = 70% - 80%
- Warmest/ Coolest/ Wettest/ - April/ January/ November
- Average rainfall per year = 2342.2mm
- Lowest temperature, in Jan 31, 1934 = 19.4 degrees Celsius
- Highest temperature, in Mar 26, 1998 = 36 degrees Celsius
- Average humidity level = 84.2%
How has the pH level of water affected the nature reserve/animals?
- Acid rain lowers pH level of the soil to as low as 3. Thus, washing away nutrients our of the soil and damages the plant. Vegetation recovery there will be difficult.
- Many plants grow in specific pH levels. Thus, soil is a important factor for their ecosystem and as many animals only eat specific plants.
- Soil pH level affects the nutrients available in the soil. More nutrient availability increase plant growth and food supply to animals.
- Increased nutrient availability increases nutrient supply within the plant. Animals consuming the plant would require less plant material for their nutritional needs. Thus, allowing animals to grow faster and increase their population.
This Research is done by: Ming Yao (9) 2D
6:02 PM
Facts: Today I mainly finished up and summarized the research i had done.
Ideas: We are thought to make a trip to the nature reserve.
Learning Issues: I want to go deeper into the questions and think out of the box
Action Plan: Ask everyone do complete their research so that we can put it together and discuss.
Done by: Ming Yao (9) 2D
5:54 PM
Facts: We started researching on our guiding questions today on the internet.
Ideas: I can go on the internet to search for the answers to my guiding questions.
Learning issues:I found out that finding research about my question is quite a challenge.
Action plan: I will try harder to find out the answers to my guiding questions.
Done by: Sean Heng (12) 2D
5:35 PM
Facts:We continued our research on our tasks given respectively and carried on with the next week's lesson
Ideas: We will try to come out with more ideas and research if possible to extend the range of our information and intelligence capacity.
Learning Issues: I found out that it was impossible to find out how human activity would affect singapore nature reserves as there is no illegal hunting of animals or any other activity going on there.
Action Plan: I tweaked the question and instead did research on how tourists and visitors there affected the nature reserve directly or indirectly
By Aaron Chow 10
2:27 PM