Thursday, April 26, 2007

My Unit of Inquiry

Title: It's our world and we are responsible for it.
Theme: Sharing the Planet
Central Idea: We are responsble for determining causes of changes in our natural environment.
Inquiry into: -The cause and affect of landslide to community.
-The possible solution to prevent landslide.


My groups name is the Mud-rines. Our groups experiment is making a model of a working landslide by using three different kinds of way. Rockslide, under water landslide, and a normal landslide. To make this model, we used an aquarium. So far we had make the setting, but we haven't made the landslides. My first inquiry is about, Landslides are a serious common disaster which always happened to almost every state in the United States. It is estimated that nationally they cause up to 2 billion dollar in damages and from 25 to 50 deaths usually. Globally, landslides cause billions of dollars in damage and thousands of deaths and injuries each year. Individuals can take steps to reduce their personal risk.

The second inquiry into is, the possible solution to prevent landslide.
There is many kinds of way to prevent landslide. We could stop illegal logging, throwing trash, and also stop co2. Because they could rotten the trees and make a landslide happen. And there are many more of ways to prevent landslide. So let's start preventing landslide.

This is a diagram of some landslides.

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