Merhaba friends...
I 'm İrem... my e_mail address : irem_ayca_1468@hotmail.com

merhaba friends;
I'm İrem... my e_mail : irem_ayca_1468@hotmail.com

merhaba friends,
i'm Duygu Potter.my e_mail address=misspother35@hotmail.com

Film

Please follow the link below to view a short film made by some of our group about paper recycling in the College.

http://www.blackpoolsixth.ac.uk:16080/index.php?content_id=1306

Answers to Questions

Here are a few answers to your questions,

3) We like to eat a Sunday Roast dinner with beef or lamb, Fish and Chips, lots of baked beans on toast and cakes. 

4)There are 1700 students in our College and around 20 in each class. 

5) We know that Turkey did well in the Eurovision Song Contest, that it makes Turkish Delight and donner kebabs and that it is very hot but beautiful. 

8) In our free time we like to go to the cinema, the beach, go shopping, watch sport and visit other cities in the UK. 

9) We have never been to Turkey but I have seen some of it on television. 

10) We do not know much about Turkey but we would like to see some of the countryside and some famous landmarks. 

Goodbye for now :)

hiya! here are a few answers to your questions ;-)

1. London (the capital with loads of history) like buckingham palace, the houses of parliament, london eye (big wheel with view over the whole city), big ben ( a very big clock), westminster abbey (a cathedral), st. paul's cathedral
-stonehenge (ancient stone circle)
-the lake districts ( a national park with mountains and lakes)
-white cliffs of Dover
-the highlands of Scotland
-oxford and cambridge (famous towns with good universities)
-loch ness with nessie (legend about a huge monster in a lake)

Okyanuslar daha asitli hale geliyor

Bilim adamları, okyanusların giderek daha asitli hale geldiğini ve bunun deniz yaşamını tehdit ettiğini belirttiler.ANKARA - ABD'nin Chicago Üniversitesi' nden bilim adamları, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences dergisinde yayımladıkları araştırmalarında, okyanusların asit oranının atmosferdeki karbondioksit seviyesinin artışıyla birlikte yükseldiğini tespit ettiler.Okyanuslardaki asit oranının artışına bağlı değişkenler arasında sadece atmosferdeki karbondioksidin farklılık gösterdiğini belirten uzmanlar, asitli suyun artışının bazı deniz hayvanlarına zarar vermeye başladığını ve okyanusların karbondioksit soğurma kapasitesini azaltabileceğ ini ifade ettiler.Chicago Üniversitesi' nden bilim adamları araştırmalarında Büyük Okyanus'ta Washington açıklarındaki (Pasifik) Tatoosh adasında 8 yıl süreyle suyun pH düzeyinde 24 bin 519 ölçüm yaptı.Amerikalı uzmanlar, okyanusların asitlilik oranının, iklim değişikliği ve diğer araştırmalarla tahmin edilenden 10 kat hızlı arttığını belirterek, bu artışın, deniz gıda zincirinde ciddi bir etkisi olacağı uyarısında bulundu.

An excellent book about Global Warming

Dear Friends,

I want to suggest something that it's an excellent book about global warming .It's name is "Weird Weather".There are everything about global warming that you don't want to know but you have to learn in this book.This book's author's name is Kate Evans.She is from England.It must be read.

Our groups Photo

Our Questions

1.Where are the famous places in the U.K?

2.What do you like to do in the U.K?

3.Do you have any national dishes?

4.How many students are there in your school and each of your classes?

5.What do you know about Turkiye?

6.Which lessons do you take at school?

7.What kind of things are you doing about global warming in your country?

8.What do you do in your sparetime?

9.Have you ever been in Turkiye?Do you know any places in Turkiye?

10.Where do you want to see when you come here?

11.What do you like to do?

12.What does your school do to combat global warming?

13.What kind of music do you listen to?

14.What have you done about global warming before participating the project?

15.What is the weather like in Liverpool?

16.What kind of sports do you like?

17.Do you go to school with school uniform or without it?

18.Which football team is your favourite and do you have a Liverpool uniform?

19.Are you feeding pet animals ?What are they?

20.What kind of social system do you have?

Please reply to these questions. See you soon.

Dear Friends Hello from Turkey.

Dear Friends,


Hello.We are pleased to work with you, too and we are also so excited. We are trying to answer your questions. Besides, we have some questions to ask you. If you answer them, we will be so happy. See you soon.


Fatma,Gözde,Gizem,Aysu,Nurten,Ece,İrem,Volkan,Duygu,İpek,Selcan,Mertcan,Duygu,Nevin,Refide,Bahar,


Gizem,Murat,Onur,Gül,Buse,Çetin,Ercan,Azem,Hatice.


Your questions's answers;


1. Playing chess,reading books, listening to music, watching movies, going shopping, travelling, watching the see.


2. Mantı, çiğ köfte, sarma, dolma, döner, Turkish delight.


3. Pop music, rock music, rap music, metal, arabesk, Turkish traditional music, Turkish art music.


4. Olive, grape, orange, tobacco, cotton, artichoke, tangerine.


5. Virgin Mary, Ephesus, Selçuk, Kuşadası, Çeşme, Kemeraltı(shopping center), Kadifekale,(Castle), naturel living park, Bergama, Şirince.


6.There are about one thousend seven hundred students in our school.There are about


30 students In our classrooms.


7. Maths, Physics,Chemistry,Biology, English, Geography, History, Art,Literature, Grammer, Physical Education.


8.There are a lot of religious and formal school holidays in our country. Our summer holiday goes on during three months. We go to the seaside on our holidays, we are travelling, having picnics, going to the cinema, having fun and reading books during the holidays.


9. The weather is usually sunny. The affects of the Global Worming are being observed. We have less rain in our country then we used to have recent years. The weather is hotter then usual.


10. The football teams -Liverpool, Arsenal,Chelsea...-.The weather is too cold in your country. The family of Kingdom. The York City.

The Solaris Centre

We went to the Solaris Centre this Thursday :
We learnt that "if everybody in the UK switches their TV off from the mains they could be able to close a nuclear plant for a year" that's a whole lot of energy wasted !
In the solaris centre they use alot of different ways to use less energy so possible,
- in the solaris centre the would use solar panels that give out 18 kw's hours,
- they have underfloor heating,
- also they have double grazing,
- they collect rain water and use it to flush the loo's,
- they had two wind turbines that conduct electric all around the centre,
- the roof was make up a old car tyres ,
- and the building was made by the foundations of the old building,
- the also have masonry cavity wall insulation

random fact; "1 gallon of diesel releases 13 kilos of carbon dioxide which is the same as 2stone of rice"

Is Global Warming real?

On Tuesday,11th November, we had Dr. Rob Mckenzie from Lancaster University visiting our eco team. We got the opportunity to learn some interesting facts about global warming and climate change. Here is a brief summary of the lecture.
Our earth is an intricate system where a small effect can have a big impact. Thus the emissions from our cars when we drive to college or the electricity being used by our TV when on standby, might seem small, but they build up to add to the gruesome effects of global warming. Global Warming is the name given to the gradual warming up of the earth which has been quickened by the emission of greenhouse gases especially carbon dioxide. Climate change is the change in climatic conditions observed worldwide due to this global warming. Rob showed us shocking statistics which provide evidence for the inevitable threat on our planet earth. The professor also had an answer to those who dismiss these things by saying that global warming doesn't exist. They should probably ponder over the "credit crunch", who knew that it would happen , but it did.. Similarly, there is truth behind global warming and climate change... Thus instead of debating over its existence , we should work together to make our world a greener and happier place!!!!!

Curious questions from Blackpool!

Merhaba! We are very pleased to be working on this project with you and are looking forward to hearing from you and meeting you!

Here are some questions which we would like to ask you to find out more about you and the place where you live.

We are also posting a photo of our group so you can see what we look like.

Please reply to these questions, maybe as “comments” on this post.

Please send us some questions to answer!

• What is fun to do in Turkey?
  
• What type of food/national dishes are there?
  
• What type of music is there in Turkey?
  
• What sort of fruit and vegetables can be grown where you live?
  
• Do you have any famous places or landscapes?
  
• What's the sealife like? What kind of birds and animals are there where you live?
  
• How many people are there in your school and each of your classes?
  
• What subjects do you take at school?
  
• Do you have a lot of school holidays? What do you do in your holidays?
  
• Has it been sunny, cloudy, raining?
  
• What have you heard about the U.K?
  
• Do you have any environmental laws? For example about recycling, taxes on large vehicles?
  
• What does your school do to combat climate change, for example paper recycling, saving energy?
  
• What do you all do in your spare time - interests, sports, hobbies?
  

From Devon, Vikki, Alex, Gemma, Jenny, Natalie, Claire, Cheryl, Jimmy, Steven, Vikki, Chris, Anthony, Abi, Sonal, Ida, Lauren, Emily, Matia and Calvin.

Hoşça kal

Eco Code Developments!

Here is our Eco Code for the College that we made to help everyone do their part to make College more sustainable:

''We, the students and staff of The Blackpool Sixth Form College will show our respect for the environment and for the future of our world by:

1) Reducing waste of all kinds to the minimum.

2) Helping to keep the College clean and free from litter.

3) Only printing when really necessary.

4) Using the recycling facilities fully and properly.

5) Switching off lights when they are not needed.

6) Switching off computers and other devices when not in use.

7) Walking, cycling, taking public transport or car-sharing when possible.

8) Taking an interest in our local, national and global environment and helping to protect it for generations to come.''

We sent this in an email to all students in the College and they said that would try to do the actions and asked for more recycling bins around the College and clearer information so recycling would be easier. We also met with the Principal, Felicity Greeves who approved of the Code and said that she would like to spread the Code amongst the staff of the College.

Abi and Claire

Blackpool sixth form building plans.

On Tuesday we had a meeting with the Alan Lloyd (the vice principal) and Andy Martin about the colleges new building and the plans for rebuilding the rest of college in the next few years. They talked to us about what environmental improvements they plan to make to the college in the new buildings.

This is a short version of what they said and showed us on the powerpoint.

The old buildings were all outdated with high running and maintenance costs just because of how inefficient they were energy wise.

The new building that's just been completed is rated by BREEAM as being "very good" whilst is the second best award they give out. This is because it has solar shading to keep the sunlight of the windows whilst allowing light to get through (this keeps the sun from heating up the building in summer). It has large pipes in the ceilings allowing air to flow through the building to keep it cool as well as having an automated system that automatically opens the windows if the temperature gets to 22 degrees, this means that the new building only has two rooms that use air conditioning in them. This saves a lot of energy as there is less need for air conditioning.

Phase 2 of the building project will have the same energy saving technology as the new building but will also have a rainwater harvesting system (where rainwater is collected in a large tank on the roof and used for the toilets), this will reduce the amount of waste water in these buildings by a large amount.

Phases 3 and 4 will both be built to BREEAMs highest rating "excellent". This is because it will have more green space as the college plans to buy a greenfield site next door and use it as a sports pitch and a general grassy area. These buildings will use groundsource heat pumps (large 100metre deep holes in the ground which provide cool water in summer and warm water in winter) to either heat or cool the buildings depending on the season. Piping on the roofs will provide warm water as water will be pumped through the pipes and sunlight will heat the water in the pipes, this water will then be used to head the radiators in these buildings. As well as that a combined heat and power generator will be installed, this will bother power the new building and heat it as the heat given off by the generator will be sent around the new buildings through pipes to heat it during the winter.

At any point in the future new technology like solar cells can be installed onto the roofs of the new buildings.

As a result of the energy efficiency of the new buildings the college will have lower fuel and heating bills as well as lower maintenance costs and the buildings themselves will last longer than the ones we have now.

Any opinions on anything said in this post would be good.

Effects of Climate Change on Lancashire

Hi,

Here is a useful link from Lancashire County Council on the likely impacts of Climate Change on our local area.  Also on the same site are action plans for helping to prevent and lessen the effects. 

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/envpolicy/climate/lancsissues.asp

Jon

Summary of the impacts of climate change survey

We did a survey on what people thought the impacts of climate change would be within the next 25 years. The people thought the impacts would be.

1. .Sea level rises.
2. There will be no difference between the seasons.
3. -Some species of plants and animals would die out.
4. -Famine in some places.
5. -More weather related natural disasters e.g. more strong hurricanes and flooding.
6. -Wars over resources like food and oil.

Summary Of Climate Change

Hi from Blackpool!

This is a summary of our intial survey about Climate Change. We asked the question: What should the UK government do about Climate Change?

1. Make recycling easier and accessible to everyone
2. More money to science - Research more energy saving methods
3. Raise awareness through advertising - TV, magazine etc
4. Less tax on smaller cars
5. Make public transport better and cheaper
6. Heavier fines for pollution
7. Cut down non-renewable energy use
   

Ida

Initial Survey (Blackpool)- what individuals can do to combat Climate Change

This is a summary of our findings from our initial survey here in Blackpool, when we asked people: "What actions can you as individuals take to combat Climate Change?"

1. Recycle items such as paper, plastics

2. Use energy efficient appliances

3. Use cars less for travel and walk, cycle and use public transport more.

4. Reuse items such as plastic bags

5. Turn appliances off when not being used e.g. lights, computers

6. Have a compost bin at home

7. Buy local, seasonal produce

8. Buy organic produce

Initial survey, Blackpool

Some key Climate Change information

Follow this link for a very useful presentation by the Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Toyko earlier this year.  He gives some key information about evidence for climate change and some of the impacts happening already.  The last part concentrates mostly on the Asia-Pacific area.

The link is:  http://www.ne.jp/asahi/prime-intl/presen/GEOSS/0416/06.pdf

Jon

Re-engineering the atmosphere

Here's an interesting article from the Economist magazine about new ideas on how the atmosphere might be "reengineered" to lessen the effects of climate change:

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12052171

As the article says, however, there are plenty of doubts about whether such schemes would really work and have the kind of impact which is needed.

Jon

Information from the UN

Hi,

Check out this link to the Youth site of the United Nations Environment Programme. http://www.unep.org/tunza/youth/

There's some excellent information here and you can access the Tunza magazines from this site which are full of articles which are very relevant to our project. You can download them as .pdf files from this link:

http://www.unep.org/publications/search/title_search.asp?search=tunza

I've also added in UNEP as a permanent link at the bottom of this blogsite.

Jon

Welcome To Our BlogSite

Merhaba!  Hello!

This is the first post in the blogspace for the Comenius Project, "Let's Heal the World" which is a partnership  between Gaziemir Kipa 10. Yil Lisesi in Turkey and The Blackpool Sixth Form College in the UK.

Our project will focus on Climate Change and will run over 2 years.

We are very excited to be making a start.

Jon