Data:
Warming temperature of the Earth (in degrees Celsius)
1880s 13.73
1890s 13.75
1900s 13.74
1910s 13.72
1920s 13.83
1930s 13.96
1940s 14.04
1950s 13.98
1960s 13.99
1970s 14.00
1980s 14.18
1990s 14.31
2000s 14.51
2010s 14.73
Fossil Fuel increase (in terra-watt hours)
1880s-1910s >9,000 TWh
1940s 15,000 TWh
1950s-1960s 29,000 TWh
1970s 53,000 TWh
1990s-2000s 90,000 TWh
2010s 129,000 TWh
I chose to do this project on climate change and based it on the earth’s temperature because I know that we as people can do better to protect our planet. I did some research after finding a graph that showed the earth’s temperature over the last century and found that one of the main reasons for global warming was fossil fuel consumption. the earth naturally breaks down fossil fuels, but because humans are overusing these resources, the earth does not have time to recycle them properly, causing the earth’s temperature to increase. I found this very interesting, as I had never really known why climate change was happening, and I now know one of the many reasons. Something that I may have done differently would be using yarn or crocheting rather than a bracelet because it would be easier to see.
Critical Thinking
I can ask questions and consider options.
I needed to figure out a way to effectively showcase data in a 3D way, and I considered what I was interested in and capable of showing well. I decided to show global warming and what its main effect is and what the temperatures were. I considered using the effects of forest fires, but the data that was available to me was not sufficient, so I decided to use different data. I ended up using the increase of fossil fuels over the past century and displayed that data using beads. The colour that the bead is in shows the increase in fossil fuels, and how that has made the earth’s overall temperature warmer.
I can gather and combine new evidence with what I already know to develop reasoned conclusions, judgments, or plans.
When faced with the issue of having a bracelet that was too short, I was able to think outside the box and make every two rows of string five years, rather than 10 years resulting in a longer bracelet. I also used the data of fossil fuels over the past century and showed how they have increased over time, using beads knotted into the bracelet correlating with each year of the data. I used the knowledge that fossil fuels have been a major part of the earth’s warming and found that with an increase of fuels, the earth’s temperature also increased. I planned to show the years with the most increase by placing a bead in that row. Overall, I was able to successfully show the increase of earth’s temperature, and how fossil fuel increase had been the main effect of that.
