CH GCE Portfolio

I am a freshman at GCE Lab School. In my STEAM class, our first unit is about water. This week we were focusing on climate and weather. Comparing and contrasting the effects and many other variables. At the end of the week, we were tasked with creating a presentation that took one region, country, or city and explained how the weather and climate in that place will change by 2100. This project includes research about the parts per million, the carbon cycle, clouds, and annual temperature. For my research, I chose Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have a unique terrain encompassing the Andes mountains, glacial lakes, and Pampas grassland. Works Cited: Impacts and Adaptation.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - Climate Change, 2015, pp. 151–169. Bianchi, Alberto. “ATLAS CLIMÁTICO DIGITAL DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA.” Global Archives, Instituto Nacional De Tecnología Agropecuaria, 2010, inta.gob.ar/sites/default/files/script-tmp-texto_atlas_climtico_digital_de_l...

For the past couple of weeks, my freshman class and I have been studying water filters and the possibilities for water filtration. During our classes and research, I was really into it because of the fact that I had done this before. I instantly knew that building the actual filter would probably be easier this time because of my previous experience. This journey also made me think about the Flint Water Crisis and how I could potentially make a filter to ensure safe drinking water for myself and community. This is my second action project for my STEAM course on the unit “Water.” The project is to make a water filter that filters dirty water into clean and potable water. During this class, we have been studying water filtration. In class, we learned about logarithms, and we also learned how to find pH levels using logarithms and scientific notation, and what the pH scale is. We went on a field experience to the Jardine Water Treatment Plant. During the field experience, I lear...

My nearest water source is 3.36 miles away, that would take me an hour and ten minutes to walk to the river to collect water. It would take me about 3 and 30 minutes to walk back with more than 3 gallons of water in my hands. It would take 3 times as long if I was carrying water. I calculated this by taking the time it took to walk from our school to the river without water, and then I compared it to the time walking from the river to the school with water. When we did not have water, it took 6 minutes to walk from school to the river. When we did have water, it took us 18 minutes which is three times as long walking without water. The average person in the USA uses 152 gallons a day. That is 575 liters and is equal to 1267.68 pounds. The average person in the UK uses 150 liters a day. That is about 40 gallons and is equal to 333.6 pounds. Many people think that the UK has a lot of different places and a lot of different people. But after studying the water usage of people all ove...