Human and Other Species(:

Learning Intention : To consider what makes us human.

Success Criteria :
- I can work collaboratively.
- I can build my own definition.
- I can discuss and communicate.

What makes us human?
- We are different from animals and other species. We can talk, think, write, drive and anything in our human brains that we are able to do that makes us ourselves. Using our intelligence can accomplish things. Us humans have our own language and we can't use our language to understand animals and vice versa. Imagination and creativity.

Glossary on TED talks:

Destitute - without the necessities of life

Vulnerable - 

Commodity - a product that can be bought and sold

Liberation - 

Economic autonomy - 

Sustainable freedom - 

Hereditary slavery - 

GROUP Reflection on Peak oil.

1. To work together as  group and share our information and understanding about peak oil.

2. We worked well, so we achieved what we wanted and finished the fishbone diagram with all the information on it. We got all the information together using ‘STEEP’.

a) Yes we did so that we know what to do as an individual and share our ideas as a group. One person doing ‘S’ in ‘STEEP’ and the other doing ‘T’ and so on. One of us was a whipcracker, the other was a. 

b) Everyone worked well against each other, we had a healthy communication. We clearly shared our idea with each other. We divided the work equally (e.g. Global, National, Future)

c) Yes we all have different parts of the group work to do and we all brought it together to the fish-bone diagram.

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3. 

Individual Group Reflection on Peak oil:)

1. What was the key focus of this learning opportunity?
- To know how to work cooperatively with our group members and to apply our understanding of peak oil on the fishbone diagram together.

2. How did you work as a group?
a) Did you allocate specific roles?
- Yes so that we know what to do in our parts of the group element.
b) Did everyone work well?
- Yes we did, three of us did but not the other one.
c) Do you think you worked as a team?
Yes. Person A, B and C did, but not really person D because they did the research but did not really bother to do anything on the fishbone diagram.
d) Did you achieve your group success criteria?

3. What could your group have done to develop your teamwork skills?
- We could've worked together on everything and cooperatively at that since one of us didn't.

4. What did you learn from this learning opportunity?
- I learned more about peak oil using 'STEEP' and looking at the different perspectives and also how to communicate with other team members.

5. What value did this learning have?
- In future group projects we could master working together and collaboratively.

6. What could you have improved on your learning?
- To always understand what your writing and reading about and to always help other team members.

My Success Criteria's

- To finish my part on the fish-bone diagram.
- To get started on the describe and explain the N, G and F perspectives.

Peak Oil Personal Reflection:)

I think I did pretty well on my vlog, but I could improve on some areas like, I should have included 'social' in STEEP and I could have said more reasons why it was real. But, overall I did well and like my group had said I almost used everything in STEEP and they liked my support in my evidence I had given.

Individual Questions and Information about Peak Oil:)

Definition - Around the globe, there is a limited amount of oil that we can extract. Peak oil is a point where the supply of oil is at its limit. Different Economists have varieties of predictions as to when peak oil will happen. Some say that it will happen in about ten or twenty years from now and others say that it has already passed. And, when that happens only a very little amount of it will be shared around the world, and that also will be monopolised by only a few countries. This isn't only an environmental issue, it is also a security and economics issue.

What is Peak Oil? - Oil, is a limited resource. It takes hundreds of millions of years to fully produce. Peak oil is when oil extracts from the globe and begin to decline. While supplies decrease, the demand of oil increases after peaking. 82 million barrels of oil are consumed everyday around the world, 44% of oil is made into gasoline, 35% is made into other fuels but what about the rest? They're probably used for farming, food coatings like tomatoes, plastic, chemicals in make-up and much much more. 

So, what happens to the future after peak oil occurs? One thing for sure - prices will go up, shortages of supplies, economic depressions, conflicts between countries to get resources, global warming or clean renewable alternatives are put in, allow fewer cars on the road and make way for a sustainable and healthy future. There is still one more question to bare in mind...WHEN will it happen? there are still debates going around about the exact date, but one thing is certain..."No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuels."- David Goodstein, Out Of Gas.

Where does the world oil come from? - The top 3 countries of where oil comes from are Saudi Arabia, Russia and Norway.

Who is Hubbert and what is his curve? - The Hubbert curve is based on this geophysicist M. King Hubbert and how he came up with it. It is an approximation of the production rate of a resource in a matter of time. It is a symmetric curve and it first appeared when Hubbert presented it to the American Petroleum Institute in 1956 during his tenure at the Shell Oil Company. The curve gained a high degree of popularity for predicting the use in supplies of various natural resources in the scientific community. The curve is the main issue of the Hubbert Peak Theory which has lead to the concerns of peak oil. He used his model in 1956 to create a curve which predicted that the oil production un the US would peak around 1970.

BBC peak oil debate - 

BP oil in Brazil - This venture to Brazil is to find huge oil reserves to pay every single debt. BP oil is exploring oil reserves there to pay off their debts from the Mexican gulf incident. They are also selling their Canadian reserves off. 

Peak Oil

Oil is known as black gold. Each day over 82 million barrels of gold is consumed around the world. Finite fossil feuls. theorist have reached something that is called ‘peak oil’. In this topic we will be considering LNGF perspectives. We will doing this in a group. Is peak oil a myth or something real? 

1.What is the peak oil debate?
- It is a debate about peak oil and whether it is a myth or reality. It is when peak oil is at its time to run out.How do we know how much we have left?

2. What will you be learning? What skills will you be using?

- We will be looking at two different sides of whether peak oil is a myth or real and also if we still have enough globally. We will be using skills like communicating skills, research skills, linking skills, analysing skills and collabarating skills.