Saturday, January 31, 2009

3rd Grace Lesson

In the 3rd Grace lesson, Mr Chew had told us to do the Group idea, the solar powered car. We were supposed to give a summary of solar powered cars and how it will help the environment, and its advantages and disadvantages. He also told us to do the Survey Questions.
-Marcus

Mr Chew briefed us on what we had to do next, and told us to elaborate and do research on our group idea and complete Survey Questions. We then got together and discussed on what to do.
-Yipin

During the 3rd Grace lesson, Mr Chew had informed us on how to complete the Group Idea, and how survey questions should be, and briefed us on how to complete the group idea.

In the 3rd GRACE lesson , we gave a brief summary of our solar powered cars and how can it help our environment . Our team leader also pass us the survey questions.
-Kim ZI Li 

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Our Group Idea : Solar Powered Cars

  After the 3rd Grace lesson, our group managed to meet up and discuss on our Idea, Solar-Powered cars. Here is what we summarized :

Solar Powered Cars

  Solar powered cars, unlike other ordinary cars, make use of the energy from the sun to move. By using energy from the sun, harmful gases are not produced and emitted into the atmosphere unlike cars running on gas. It is very environmental friendly and does not add to the greenhouse effect. If the whole world changes to solar-powered cars, it would save the Earth from up to 72% of nitrogen oxides and 52% of reactive hydrocarbons.

Website : http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/almanac.html

Here are some pro’s and con’s about Solar-powered cars, based on WIKIPEDIA.

Pros :

-Solar-powered cars do not harm the Earth

-Solar-powered cars make use of Light energy, hence, gas is not needed.

-Solar-powered cars, on the long run are more cost effective.

Cons : ( based on a Swiss project “Solartaxi” )

-A maximum 400Km range without stopping

-Only a maximum speed of 90KM/h, while traveling on highways, it might have problems.

-Unable to use in rainy days, or at night, where light is absent.

We have also finished our Survey Questions : 

Q1. Are you aware of global warming?                                                                       Yes

                                                                                                                                                No

 

Q2. Are you trying to reduce global warming?(If No, Proceed to Q4)              Yes

                                                                                                                                                No

 

Q3. In a scale of 1-5, how active would you rate                                   1       2      3      4      5

       yourself on fighting global warming?   

 

 

 

Q4. Do you think using Hybrid/Electric cars are                                                     Yes

        effective in fighting global warming?                                                                  No

 

 

Q5. Would you install solar panels in your house if you could?                        Yes

                                                                                                                                No

Sunday, January 11, 2009

2nd grace lesson

Today we had our 2nd grace lesson with Mr. Chew. He told us what we are supposed to do or finish on any particular weeks. After he told us, we immediately get to what we had to finish for today.
-gerald

Our 2nd lesson, Mr.chew briefed us about what to do for these 12 weeks of GRACE. We sorted out the roles of the Questioner, leader, recorder and encourager. We will plan to stay back on one day to discuss about our idea.
-marcus

In our 2nd lesson, Mr Chew told us about our task for the Grace. We appointed members to be the Questioner, leader, recorder and encourager. We are also told to be punctual for our tasks.
-Yipin

Inn our 2nd lesson , Mr Chew told brief us more about our task for the GRACE. The team leader appointed our team members to be recorder , encourager and leader. We handed in our work on time.
- kim zi li

Our first grace lesson

  It was our first grace lesson. Today Mr Chew briefed us on the overall objective if the GRACE program and told us that we must choose a subject and create an item.
-gerald