The song

Our group has changed the performing act. We changed it into another song. The last song was called Look What You've Done and now we changed it into a song we made our self that is called The Disaster Song. The tone is from Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. And the song goes like this:

Now the flood is rising up
And it's dangerous to everyone
Houses and buildings are falling down
People cannot go to work
Now you know what floods can do
Plant more trees for me and you

Conclusion

So now our group knows what causes floods what is our responsibility to stop floods and we know that flood can be connected to other things such as sickness.In this blog there are all the answers of what is the causes of flood, what is our responsibility to stop floods and what is flood connected to. Maybe some of the post are old and is renewed by a new post and if you want to see the older ones just go to the bottom of the page and click "Older Posts." If you want to visit my group members blogs go to the main page of my blog and then on the right you will see all my friends blogs. The one you should see is either Mahendra, Mark, or Putri. If you want to see the other groups blogs just click on the other names.

Group reason's:

My group reasons for choosing that song are:

1. The title shows what you have done to the earth. (Justin)

2. This song reflects to us for what we've done to our surrounding. {Mark}

3. The song tells us that we have damaged earth's population and it's environment. (Mahendra)

4. The song (lyrics) is about what you have done to our nature, other people and you. {Putri}

The song lyrics is like this:

[Verse 1]Look how nature was just made and then destroyed Because of you Cause all that's left has gone away And there's nothing there for us to move

[Chorus 1]Oh, look what you've done You've made big floods to every where Oh well, it seems likes such fun Until you lose what you had won

[Verse 2]Give me back my point of view just can't live because of you I just mostly hear you say What should I do, well you should choose

[Chorus 2]Oh, look what you've done You've made big floods to everywhere Oh well, it seems likes such fun Until you lose what you had won Oh, look what you've done you've made big floods to everywhere Big floods to every where Big floods to everywhere

[3]Look how nature was just made and then destroyed Because of you Cause all that's left has gone away And there's nothing there for us to move

Cartoon

This is a picture of a person who wants help from other people.

We can help this man don't we?

This picture is taken from: http://www.mnstate.edu/archives/images/political_cartoon.jpg accessed on: 22/05/07. Cartoon by Copley News Service on June, 1997.

My opinion about other groups experiment

My group experiment is quite good for me. We have done the experiment together. For Sam's group experiment I think they need to try the experiment first to see if it really work. Our group last time also had trouble to make the experiment work but now the experiment can work. For Melvin's group I don't know what his group's experiment look like because I only saw the lat time's experiment and i haven't seen their new experiment. My opinion about the last experiment that they make is good but they have to make the things move not only stay. Now I'm sure they have made a new experiment that moves not like the last one. For Misya's group I think it's almost the same with Melvin's group because I haven't saw their experiment. Last time they said that the experiment is in the computer and in a movie. Also when they presented it the pictures won't appear in the movie. So my opinion on this group is finish your experiment quickly. I know making a CO2 experiment is so hard because my mom also said so.

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Friends who are out of the program

There are 3 people who are already out of the eLearning program. They are Adia, Angga and Mark. They were out of the eLearning program because they didn't update their blog for a quite a long time. I hope I will not be out of the program like them. I want to still use this blog. Later after the exhibition I want to use this blog for my personal stuff. Now I think the one in our class that has the best blog is Melvin. So for the others try not to be out of the eLearning program!

Flood slide

What the experiment is about

The experiment that our group made is about floods. First we are going to show the good then the bad. On the good one we will pour water and it runs well until the sea. On the bad part we are going to put a kind of play dough and a bit of soil to be put into the river and the water will be blocked and dirty and it will overflow and then floods the city. On the flooded part of the city we used Styrofoam for the houses so that it can float meanwhile on the not flooded side we pt houses that are still good and pictures of people smiling. We also added trees. We add lots of trees on the not flooded side and only put a little bit of trees on the flooded side. We eventually used the sponge to dry the sea and we took Jasper's idea to make a hole on the end and the water will flow there and falls into the bucket under it.

Performance practise

At school today we practise and show the performance that we are going to do. Our group was not really ready with the performance but we already tried our best to do it. Actually I wasn't supposed to play the bass but I was supposed to play the keyboard but we haven't got the notes. I already learned some notes using the bass guitar. Mahendra teaches me. I think the best group that has performed is Alto's group because they played well.

Exhibition experiment

At night I painted the pulp and in the morning some of the paint wasn't dry yet so I think when we pour water the paint will flow to. I have put together all the things on the first Saturday when Mahendra and Mark went to my house.In the morning I put a layer of aquaproof on the experiment that is why I was late to school. Then I brought my groups experiment to school and brought it back to fix it. We got inputs from our friends and also from the teacher. We have to use sponges to dry the water when it is in the sea then we can use that water to be used again and again. This Saturday Mahendra and Mark will come to my house to fix the experiment. Maybe Putri could come. Before that time I will try to do the things for what is going to be put on the board. At school we already made the plan. There are lots of inputs from our friends. One of them is "You have to focus on one thing rather then two" (Ayu) and "On each side put a hole so the water will flow down" (Jasper).

Melvin's test

I think the test was quite easy. But why can't I submit my test. I have to sign in first and I did it but always there's a message that "you have to resubmit. Your username must consist of only letters and numbers" and I did it but I still can't submit it?

What contributes to flooding

There are lots of things that contribute to floods. Humans are one of them and there are two more reasons which are nature and ecology. Humans contribute to cause flooding because humans cut trees down and trees can prevent flood. Humans also does global warming to make floods happening. Nature contributes to floods by sending heavy rains and because of global warming the icebergs are melting and causes sea level to rise. The ecological factor also contributes to floods because of erosion, deforestation and land conversion from trees to housing areas. So as you can see there are lots of causes of flood and we have to stop doing our contribution to flood. Trees can help to stop flooding because trees can help with two things. The first one is trees can absorb water and the second one is by holding soil with their roots and it also can prevent erosion.

This is what is what your house is going to look like if we don't prevent floods from now!


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Newspaper article

Sebelum Petaka Semesta itu tiba.....

This article is about global warming. The ice bergs in Greenland is melting 2,5 kilometer cubic for the last 5 years. The temperature of the earth has risen 3-5 degrees in the last 100 years. The Himalayan mountains that is covered with snow for about 33.000 kilometer square will not be covered with snow in 2100. The snow in Kilimanjaro will finish in the year 2015 and the snow in the Alpen's will reduce 50-90%.This issue also effect Indonesia. The effect on Indonesia is we will have heavy floods. Even now the water levels in some places have risen 8-29 cm. If this is not anticipated almost 2000 islands in Indonesia will sink. This flood will cause lots of sickness and one of them is Gizi Buruk.

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Timeline

May 3: Experiment
May 4: Experiment
May 5: Find out about drainage system
May 6: Power Point
May 7: See what everyone has done

My group's second inquiry is Specific solutions to address flooding in the city. These are some solutions to address flooding in Jakarta:
(1) Stop converting parks, lakes and swamps into housing.
(2) Make people stop throwing rubbish anywhere they want.
(3) Plant more trees so when water comes down from Bogor or Puncak trees will hold the water and also soils.
(4)Make rivers deeper and wider.

Humans of course needs place to live but not to much. Because if you are going to make a residential place you need to have a land and usually that land is filled with trees. We know that trees can absorb water. So if we build to any residential place we cannot make it to big and to wide because the more land you use the more trees you cut and the less air you will breathe.

If people don't stop throwing rubbish wherever they want there will always be floods happening in Jakarta every rainy season. When you throw rubbish on the road it will land on streets. Then when it rains, the water will carry the trash. Water will always flow to lower places so the water will flow to gutters. If there are too many trash, the trash will block the way for water to get in the gutter so water will stay there and if there are too many water it will cause flood.

Trees help us with lots of things. They provide air for us to breathe, trees help us if there is water flowing it will absorb them and also the trees will also hold the soil so it doesn't flow with the water. If humans keep on doing illegal logging, we will have lass air and of course we will get more floods. When the water flows most of the water will be absorb by the trees and if there are no trees the water will flow really fast to the lower city or places. The soil also comes with the water but if there are lots of trees the soil will be hold by the trees and if there are no trees the rivers that are usually deep will be shallow because there are lots of mud inside it and the lower the river is the less water it can hold.And that causes flood.

So starting from now on we have to plant more trees because that really effects floods from happening. If we can't plant more trees then we have to make rivers wider and deeper. Because like I said before the deeper and wider the river is the more water it can hold. So from now on please do not contribute to make floods.

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