Carbon Footprint and Lockwood.

1. URL: http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/
2. My carbon footprint, according to the quiz, is below the nation average, at 17 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
3. In order to reduce my own carbon footprint, I can eat more organic foods. I can also convince my parents to buy more organic food. At school, I can reduce my carbon footprint by asking my teachers to turn off/turn down the heat/air conditioning in the classroom.
4. The two best things about working with the Lockwood kids, were that I was able to show them how to do something that they are going to forget in three days, and that I could do something with them that they would enjoy/learn from.  If we ever work with the kids again, I would change how to explained things, and make it more relatable/comprehensive for the small children, because they probably didn't understand a work me or Adrian said to them. I would also like to do it on a nicer day, when it's warmer out, so no one is freezing their noses off.

Noon Shadows Results

The sundial works when the earth moves around the sun, and casts a shadow as it does so. It takes the earth one year to move around the sun. At it's different positions around the change, the season's change with it. During the summer, the Earth is closer to the sun, while in the winter it is farther away. In December, you would have to face south instead of north, because the Earth is facing the Sun in a different position. If you were to do a sundial on the equator, it would be different, because the Sun's rays hit the equator directly, whereas here in Michigan, they do not. This all has to do with the Sun's direct rays on the Earth. In Sydney, Australia, the sundial would be different, because they have another position on the Earth, therefore, the rays would be different.

Red Planet

1. I saw, in the movie, that people had decided to leave for Mars once Earth became too polluted. What confuses me, is why they would decide to move to Mars. The movie was very futuristic, and, although it was made in 2000, it makes very little sense. The movie is in fact pure fiction, because there is no way that anyone can know for sure if life can be sustained on Mars, or on any other planet, for that matter.
2. I thought the movie was incredibly dull, boring and made me want to fall asleep. It was much too boring for something that should have been incredibly fast-paced, and should have had much better developed characters. Also, some scientific facts never seemed to make a difference to those creating the movie. For example; How could Gallagher have stood up?, How are they all able to breathe oxygen?
3. Dr. Platt says that the science in the movie was  inaccurate scientific wise, but there were some redeeming qualities that the movie had.