The eyes of Thailand Research

1.What is it about? A brief summary (~5-10 sentences)
The movie "The eyes of thailand" is a documetary movie about a elephant. Tells the true story of one woman's quest to help two elephant landmine survivors-Motala and Baby Mosha-walk on their own four legs. It is a great film. 
2.      Include a link to the trailer of the film

·   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRD5yz5BHE&feature=plcp&context=C46339d2VDvjVQa1PpcFN08LwIMf_xDWXtV_TNLZsD5J9Z6yaJwg0%3

3. What is the global issue behind the film?

     Asian elephant is an endanger animal, but people still use these elephant for doing hard work such as carrying the logs. Some elephant got abuse, neglect, or over worked. The population of Asian elephant have dropped a lot and Asian elephant is consider as one of the endanger species already. People are still doing this which may cause Asian elephant to extinct in the future. Another global issue behind this film is landmines that are around the border of Thailand and Myanmar. These landmines are for protecting people to escape or come illegally to Thailand. 

4. How is it related to our class and why are we going as an environmental science class?

We as a environmental science class can't really help them but there is one way in which we can help them. It is to donate. 50 baht per person is really important. And tell more people about the film. 

5.  Which organizations are involved

·         Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE)

·         Amie Penwell

·         Animon Tripod

·         Galen Garwood

·         The Humane Society of The United States

·         Mines Action Canada

·         United States Campaign to Ban Landmines

·         Handicap International

·         Sofia Christian Icon & Jewelry

·         Choclatique

·         Earthlust

·         Remedy Editorial, LLC

·         Creative Narration

·         Phuket Beer USA

·         The Changmai Project

·         Baan Panom

·         Jody’s Jungle

6. Question

How can we help the elephant?

THE EYES OF THAILAND TICKET

Jay Z Discussion

                                   

Discussions 1 Why was Jay-Z “honored to be at the UN”?     Jay-z was honored to speak at the United Nation because he wanted to help people that is having a hard time getting water. Why did Jay-Z want to do more than just go on a concert tour around the world He wanted to know and learn about the water crisis that is happening. He wanted to help that area that is having a hard time. Arunabha Ghosh explains to Jay-Z “you can live without food for a while, but you can’t live without water.”  Jay-Z agrees.  Why? Jay-z agrees because, we can only survive without water for only about 4-5 days, but we can survive without food for a week even more. What are some reasons why people in Angola do not have running water in their homesSome reasons why people in Angola do not have running water in their homes are because of civil wars. Civil war destroyed the water system in Angola. Arunabha Ghosh talks about the ‘loss of dignity’ when one is forced to bathe in public.  What does he mean? ·        It’s a loss of dignity because people need to have a private place to do personal things such as toilet.

Discussions 2 1.        It takes Bella four hours to collect water. Is there a better use of her time? ·         She can use her time to study or help her family. 2.      What are the health risks associated with open sewers? ·         Open sewers contain bad smell and it might spread disease, especially in a community when one person get the disease it in the whole community. 3.     Why does a flush toilet help keep girls in school? Males can pee anywhere such as bushes but females need to have a private place to do their private things. 4.      The water, sanitation and hygiene facility improvements and education at Bella's school are supported by UNICEF Angola. UNICEF-supported WASH programmes take place in over 90 countries around the world and are designed to increase access to safe water and sanitation and to educate young people about the importance of water, sanitation and healthy hygiene behaviours.  How might the knowledge and skills students learn in school WASH help their communities at large? ·         The increase of education will be able to help the community because cleaning up the water supplies in their community; they would have a better life both their community and themselves. 5.      It is more difficult for rural villages to get water, why?  What effects does this have on the girls of the community? ·         It is more difficult for rural villages to get water because the lack of technology and civilization that comes with living in a rural area.

Questions to Consider 1.        Are there shortages of freshwater resources in your country? If so, what effects do these have on your nation’s health, economy and development? Health ·         Health risk due to poor quality of drinking water ·         About 43 millions of people drink non-standard water ·         The highest risk is rain water follow by the people who drink underground water ·         The lowest risk are the packaged drinks Economy ·         Long periods of drought each year causes the decrease amount of water flowing into dams. ·         Droughts also effect on the production of rice, Thailand is also the world largest rice exporter and the agricultural take up 70% of nation water supplies. ·         Farmers have expanded farming outside of irrigated zone and farmer does not conserve water and have failed to plan crop production efficiently. ·           Development ·         Because Thailand needs lots of water each year this lead to effort to become “Kitchen to the World” ·         If not for exporting there should be enough water for present and future needs. 2.      What does your country believe the international community can do to address the issue of declining freshwater resources? ·         Both Thai and foreigner notice that freshwater is declining. ·         Example: the website Imagine Thailand is an organization that addresses about freshwater declining. In the site there are ways to get involve and help fresh water from declining. 3.      How does your country suggest the international community pay for global water resource management programs? ·         Managing risks in water resources is essential to alleviate damage and the consequences of natural disaster ·         Understanding the types or risk in each area help planners to select the right policies and actions to apply in order to reduce the risks and mitigate damage. ·         Risk management framework involves collecting info., establishing the context, identifying the risks, assessing the risks, and treating the risks. At each step stakeholders should communicate, review and monitor the progress and performance of the management framework. ·         The impact of climate change needs to be addresses when establishing the context and must continue to be considered throughout the risk management framework ·         The major source of risk in water resources especially water supply is rainfall, because we can’t control where, when and how much it will rain and these are the reasons that causes flooding and drought risks. These risk also have threat to economic development ·         Risk assessment feature an analysis of the types of risk in an area, the time of the year when will risk likely to occur ·         Traditional methods: rainfall analysis, flood and risk map creation and water balance have often been conducted on an annual basis and are statistically-based 4.      What are types of roles NGOs and business can play in the water shortage problem? ·         Organization called “water-advocacy” NGO that helps rural village with water providing. The types of roles are: -          Provide leadership necessary to create a relationship with water project recipients -          Ask for organizational expertise to plan a project with Global Water’s help -          Provide onsite skilled supervision throughout the project -          Provide after-project connection to check and monitor equipment installed during project construction -          Provide maintenance as needed -          They can provide with necessary connection with people who we can get help from.

Giving hands project

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwZG-ryOPXVpNi12Y1MxMlh0LXc/edit

Ecosystem project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7gfvbvtQ7g&feature=youtu.be

I'm a scientist and i like to study science my favorite science is environmental science I love the ecosystem so much i know all about it so many types of different ecosystem.

I'm a scientist and i like to study science all night
Ecosystems community of plants
Ecosystem community of animals
Ecosystem community of microbes

All the living and non living
are part of the ecothings
Like air and water interact with this system

Ecosystem style Ecosystem style oh oh oh
eh eh eh sexy animals
eh eh eh sexy plants oh oh oh

Within ecosystem there are
HABITATS
Which means every ecosystem has its own
POPULATION
A population is a group with same kinds of animals
They all interact with community

Natural cycles of life

Lyrics

Water Cycle x2

It happens everyday

It starts from evaporation

From the ocean to the sky

Then goes condensation

And that leads to precipitation

Water Cycle x2

It happens everyday…

Carbon Cycle

Lyrics

Old mcdonald had a farm e-ya-e-ya-oh

Plants take in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis

Animals eating plants they get carbon too

Respiration happens turns carbon back in the air

Photosynthetic organism release carbon too

Old mcdonald had a farm carbon cycle

Nitrogen Cycle

Lyrics

Nitrogen Cycle

Nitrogen nitrogen starts of as a gas

Nitrogen nitrogen goes into the plants

To spread the nitrogen around omnivores eat the meat

Nitrogen nitrogen the omnivore will poop

Then these smelly nitrogens will go into the roots

Nitrogen fixing bacteria is found on plant roots

It turns into ammonia

Water Cycle: It happens every day in our life. First it starts from evaporation (water going up). Second Condensation, when water stays up and last precipitation, when water goes down (Rain)

Carbon cycle: Complex molecule in living organism contains mostly carbon. Carbon is also important in the ecosystem. It enters the ecosystem by producers which take in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. When other organism eats the producer they would also get carbon. Carbon would get back into the atmosphere in form of carbon dioxide by cellular respiration from the consumers. Plants would also release carbon dioxide as well, when they do cellular respiration. Other forms of carbons are fossil fuels, coals, oils, natural gases, dead animal body and plants from millions years ago that are underground. As we burn fossil fuel, they would release carbon and returns it into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Nowadays, human have been affect the carbon cycle which is one of the big concern that the world is having right now. (FROM THE TEXT BOOK)

Nitrogen cycle: Nitrogen is very important to living things on earth. Nitrogen gas is about 78 percent of the atmosphere. Every living organism requires nitrogen in order to build protein. There is only one organism that could take the nitrogen gas and directly use it is the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, others organisms depends on the bacteria. The nitrogen-fixing bacteria are on the plants roots, but not all species of plants have these bacteria on their roots. Some bacteria are not in or on the plants roots they are also living in the soil so plants that doesn’t has the bacteria on their root would get nitrogen from the soil. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria has a very important role in the nitrogen cycle, they would fix the gas in a way that plants would be able to use, which is ammonia. The energy that they use fix the gas into ammonia is the sugar that were produced by the plants. When animals eat the plants or other animal they would also get their nitrogen that they needed. Nitrogen would return into the atmosphere by decomposers, which will turn nitrogen back into ammonia. (FROM THE TEXTBOOK)

symbiosis

Commensalism: :) / :l Commensalism is a relationship between two organisms in which one benefit and the other is not harmed or benefit. Ex= Shark and the remoraㅁover food of sharks Parasitism= :) / :( Parasitism is a relationship between two organism, one organism benefit (parasite) while its a harm to the other organism(host). The relationship of parasite and host. Ex.= roundworm, heartworm, tapeworm, ticks in dogs Mutualism= :) / :) Mutualism is a relationship between two organism and both organism benefits Ex= Bacteria that are in human intestine that produces vitamins.

Water notes

·         Chapter 11: Water (Notes)

sec1: Water Resources
- humans can survive for more than a month without food, can live for few days without water
1. fresh water - water that people can drink)
2. salt water - water in oceans - most human use fresh water

The Water Cycle
- water is renewable resource - circulated in water cycle
process:
- water molecules travel between Earth's surface & atmosphere
- water evaporates & leaves behind salts
- water vapor (gas) rises into the air
- gas cools & condenses into drops of liquid water - form clouds

Global Water Distribution

- 97% water is salt water in oceans
- fresh water comes from lakes and rivers & narrow zone beneath the Earth's surface

sec 2: Water Use and management
- World Health Organization - more than 1 billion people lack access to clean fresh water

Global Water Use

- fresh water used worldwide is used to irrigate crops
- availability of fresh water, population sizes, and economic conditions affect how people use water
Residential Water Use
- remainder of the water used outside the home for activities

– watering lawns and washing
cars
(Water Treatment),
arsenic, lead, which are poisonous to humans even in low
concentrations
- also removes pathogen - organism that cause illness or disease

Industrial Water Use

- needed to manuufacture everyday items
- cool power plants

Agricultural Water Use
-agriculture evaporates and never reaches plant roots
(Irrigation)
- method of providing plants with water from sources

Water Management Projects
- brought water from mountains to the dry areas
- complex
- designed to meet these needs

(Water Diversion Projects)
- Colorado River begins as a glacial stream & quickly grows larger

(Dams and Reservoirs)
- dam - structure built across a river to control river's flow
- reservoir - formed behind the dam
- dams are used to generate electrical energy
- hydroelectric dams use power of flowing water

Water Conservation
(Water Conservation in Agriculture)
- water loss comes from evaporation, seepage, runoff
-sometimes managed by computer programs that coordinate watering



- make more water available for agricultural and residential use
(Water Conservation at Home)
- water-saving technology help reduce household water use
- pay residents to install water-saving equipment

Solutions for the Future
(Desalination)
- process of removing salt from salt water

(Transporting Water)
- ships travel regularly from mainland towing enormous plastic bags of fresh water
- explore possibility of filling huge bags with water

sec 3: Water Pollution
- degrade water quality & adversely affect the organisms that depend on the water
- industrialization and rapid human population growth

Point-Source Pollution
- factory, wastewater treatment plant, leaking oil tanker
- pollution discharged from a single source
- can be identified and traced to a source
Nonpoint-Sourc Pollution
- river can be polluted by runoff from any of the land
- 96% of polluted water in US were contaminated by nonpoint sources

Wastewater
- wastewater contains biodegradable material can be broken down by living organisms
- wastewater treatment plants may not remove all the harmful substances in water
- storm-water runoff contains toxic substances
(Sewage sludge)
- When sludge contains

Artificial Eutrophication

- more plants grow, the shallow waters begin to fill in.
Eventually, the body of water becomes a swamp

Thermal Polllution
a few degrees, the amount of oxygen the water can hold decreases
significantly
(Groundwater Pollution)
- Pesticides,
herbicides, chemical fertilizers, and petroleum products are common
groundwater pollutants
- most of the

Ocean Pollution
- ships can legally dump
wastewater and garbage overboard in some parts of the ocean
- 85 percent of ocean pollution—including pollutants
such as oil, toxic wastes, and medical wastes - from land

Water Pollution and Ecosystems
- toxic chemicals spilled directly into a river can kill nearly
all living things for miles downstream
- pollutants accumulate
in the environment because they do not

 

Cleaning Up Water Pollution
- Clean Water Act of 1972 - stated purpose
of the act was to “restore and maintain the chemical, physical,
and biological integrity of the nation’s waters.”
- goal: make all surface water clean enough for fishing and swimming

 

 

Water facts

·         May:
In large parts of Africa, more than 60 percent of city dwellers are in fact slum dwellers . For many of them, water comes not from faucets inside their shacks but from water tankers or standpipes, neither of which is reliable as a water source. Open seamers increase the risk of water-borne diseases.

·         The water is so takes big part in diseases. Especially in Africa.

·          

Fred:
Corruption makes responding to the problem of scarcity more difficult. Up to 40 percent of water is lost to eater leakages in pipes and canals, one of the main causes of which is illegal tapping. The increase in the cost of water, as a result, affects the poor more than others.

When the price water increases it’s hard for the poor people to buy.

Erin:
Girls drop out of school either because they have to help fetch water or because there aren't adequate sanitary facilities in school toilets. Millions of school days are lost as result.

Girls spend their important times fetching water. If they use the time lucratively, not fetching water, the education in Africa or other poor countries will develop.            

Inaho:
Impoverished slum dwellers in Angola draw drinking water from the local river where their sewage is dumped. Farmers on the lower reaches of the colorado River struggle because water has been diverted to cities like Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

The water can’t reach to the people.

Dina:
Water scarcity affects some parts of the worlds more than others. Today, 800 million people live under a threshold of "water stress"

People is getting stress of surviving because there is not enough water for them to drink.

Ploy:
The world's water crisis has many faces. A girl in Africa walks three miles before school to fetch water from a distant well. A teenage boy in China is afflicted with terrible skim lesions because his village well is contaminated with arsenic.

It’s really hard for a african girl to fetch wate

Sonia:
As rivers dry up, lakes shrink and groundwater reserves get depleted, that figure will rise to 3 million in 2025, especially in parts of Asia and Africa. There is an urgent need to reduce waste and invest in infrastructure to "harvest" rainwater or increase storage.

Rammi: Five times as many children die each year of diarrhea as of HIV/AIDS

More water they have, the less diseases.

Jaspriya: A third of the world's population is enduring some form of water scarcity.

1/3 people are suffering because of water.  

Jessica: According to the United Nations, every day 4,500 children under the age of 5 die around the world, having fallen sick because of unclean water and sanitation.

Not enough water for people to survive.
Leila: Most water use is in agriculture. Farming uses up to 70 times more water than is used for cooking and washing. Many countries have to import more than half their food needs because they do not have enough water to grow more food. If we do not change the way we use water, the amount needed for rapidly growing world population will double in the next 50 years.

The water is really important

Half of all people in developing countries have no access to proper sanitation.

Ted: Billions of people suffer from disease, poverty and a lack of dignity and opportunity because they have no access to this basic

People can’t help these current problems because of their dignity.

Nam: water is also a crisis for women and children, because they bear the burden of collecting water. In some places, women have to walk nearly 10km to reach a water source.

Woman walks 10km to just get the water for their families.

 

Mind map

Charles Darwin's journey

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Thank you Ms.Cindy for giving me another chance


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Flood

Case Study – Flood of Thailand 2011

<Selfish government made a bad decision. I think people should be equal Rich=Poor>
Values	Economic	Education	Recreation
Positive Short-Term Consequences	Positive to the rich people.	No,	No (except computer addicted people)
Negative Short-Term Consequences	Negative to the poor people because the government decided to protect Bangkok (Rich people).	All schools were closed for a while because it was very dangerous out there. Students were not able to get a proper education.	Most of the people stayed home and waited for the flood to finish. So there was no chance for them to go out and play.
Positive Long-Term Consequences	No Positive effect at all.	No	No
Negative Long-Term Consequences	Thailand is a country of rice. Poor people make most of their money by farming, But they lost their job because of the flood. So huge negative effect.	Same	Most of the people stayed home and waited for the flood to finish. So there was no chance for them to go out and play.