Hello!
Today the grade 8’s had the honor to watch 2 films at the ROM. Both were about the North Pole and the Antarctic’s melting ice caps due to global warming. A brief summary will be posted below. Not only did we have the pleasure of watching the films but we also listened to the producer, director and the head of Worldwide Wildlife Fund Canada. (WWF).
Summary:
A marine biologist who is concerned about melting ice caps takes a journey to the poles (north and south.) There he discovers that there is a lot less ice than there should be and the little ice there is is ‘new’ ice not ‘old’ ice. A huge chunk of ice several times the size of Manhattan was just floating because the heat caused it to detach from the main glacier. He also believed that the Japanese disaster occurred because of the melting ice caps. To demonstrate how much the water has warmed, he even swam with a regular swim suit in the Antarctic! Later in the film he did several things including; raising a weather balloon, installing ice tracking equipment, and discovered un charted animals in the region.
Speakers:
The head off WWF Canada told us that we could track were polar bears are by going to www.wwf.ca/polarbears
This trip would not have been possible without Ms. Chandra, Mr. Ellerker, Ms. Moser, and Mr. Lanis.
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~Paul
edit: I will post pictures at a later time.
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