The Goal

Blogged by: Presley and Bethany

         Our global goals fair that our world issues class is hosting at our school is approaching soon. December first, friday, is just two days away. We’re excited not only to teach others about our goal and climate change but be able to participate in the fair and create the way we display our table. On Monday and Today we helped with one of our peers groups, clean water, to sell snow cones. All of the proceeds they make from it go to wateraid Canada. We hope that at the end of the fair people don’t just forget about our goal and not learn anything, we want them to be motivated to join the fight against climate change. We’ll be making brochures for our visitors to take home. We hope they take them home and do research on climate change and educate themselves more. If you’re educated and you’re aware, we’re one step closer to stopping climate change and its impacts.

References

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Wacky Water Fun

By:Jordan,Cory,Chris

It's been a busy week for our group, while working hard fundraising for our global goal  selling snow cones during our lunches we have been preparing for our global goals fair, in preparation for the fair we have been organizing a game with prizes for participants while also providing an informational trifold poster board with statistics and important information about our goal. At this point we are still not sure about whether or not we are going to sell snow cones as far as we are thinking we are going to sell the snow cones at lunch Friday and if we don't sell out we will continue to sell during the fair.

The Girl Who Could

   By Dylan, Molly, Maddy and Mickayla

Sandringham High School is a school in south africa that had a hunger issue among students. Until one day a young student named Pakane Kekana decided to take action and do something about this issue. It was found in the schools that kids who were hungry were not doing well in school, so Pakane made a plan and had it approved by the school's head master, Phillip du Plessis, but with exams being so close her plan was not going to  take action until after, so instead of giving up she decided to improvise and with the help of Gift of the Givers Foundation in Bramley View, she was able to hand out 100 food parcels to help kids in need! This is a great example of how one person can make a huge difference in helping solve world hunger.

Works Cited

“Sandringham High School Set To Go Global | News of the South.” Diaspora and Africa News, newsofthesouth.com/sandringham-high-school-set-to-go-global-2/.

“Schoolgirl Tackles Hunger.” North Eastern Tribune, 28 Nov. 2017, northeasterntribune.co.za/209222/schoolgirl-tackles-hunger/.

No More Excuses!

Blogged by Kyla, Mady, Sarah, Ethan and Hunter

For many people, they can’t find time to work out or to make healthy choices. The excuses are always the same! Well today, we’re going over solutions to these common healthy habit excuses

#1: I Don’t Have Time!

Do you make time to go to the movies with friends? Do you make time to sit and browse the Internet when you get home? It’s not a matter of having time, you need to prioritize healthy habits because they’re good for you.

#2: I’m Too Tired!

Over exhaustion is a sign that your health is struggling more than you may think. Putting down your phone a minimum of thirty minutes before you go to sleep is an easy and effective way of improving your quantity and quality of your sleep.

#3: I’ll Start Next Week...

This is one of the most frequently used excuses, and it’s very easily avoided! Don’t put it off and prioritize your health!

#4: It’s Too Expensive

Living a healthy lifestyle doesn’t need to be expensive. You don’t need to eat all organic from Whole Foods, or sign up for that expensive gym down the road; you just need to make healthy choices when you can. Taking the stairs, drinking only water and eating whole instead of processed grains are just a few ways that you can make cheap healthy choices.

#5: It’s Inconvenient!

Eating healthy doesn’t need to be stressful and inconvenient. Simply buying local and preparing your meals in advance can making eating healthy a little cheaper and convenient.

References

Lewis, T. (2015, July 28). Here's what happened when I stopped looking at screens at night. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/why-its-bad-to-use-your-phone-before-bed-2015-7

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Bowl of Fruit: https://www.eatyourcake.ca/

The Consequences of Pollution

By. Rebecca, Jared, Aimee, Kennedy

While researching worldwide effects and severity of pollution, one particular spot that continually comes up is Chernobyl, Ukraine. In 1986, an accident occurred in Chernobyl that had created extreme nuclear contamination. One-tenth of Ukraine’s land was affected by radiation from the accident and approximately one million people have been exposed to unsafe levels of contamination. Ukraine also pollutes their water by pouring oil related pollutants into the black sea, so that not only the air, but their available drinking water is considered polluted. The water supply in some areas are up to 10 times the concentration that drinking water is supposed to be, in order to be considered safe.

Industrial innovation and hazardous developments continue to create distress around the globe. These types of accidents are inevitable if we, as a planet, continue to support unsafe projects, such as major pipelines, that have the potential to destroy an entire community.

Overall, it is important to realize potential environmental dangers and the consequences that come with them.

Picture citation: “Chernobyl Disaster.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 Nov. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster.

Help the Polar Bears!

Blogged by: Bethany and Presley

Did you know that Temperatures are breaking records around the world? In our century, we have seen the most temperature record breaking since recorded history. 2016 was the hottest year on record since 1880. Since the 1950s, every continent has warmed substantially.

This week is a big week for not only our group, but for everyones group. We are doing our Global goals fair. The global goals fair will be taken place at our school, Nottawasaga Pines on Friday December 1st. Every global goal group will have a booth to set up and decorate to attract people's attention to educate them about our goal. We plan on making a bright bristol board with fun facts and pictures on it and decorate our table with lots of green and blue to represent the world.

We plan on doing a short little trivia and a game where you throw a ball and knock down bottles. On the bottles we want to put pictures that are the main causes of Climate Change.

Works Cited

Climate Change - Google Search, www.google.ca/search?q=climate+change&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi43_215OHXAhUI64MKHeF0C-sQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=621#imgrc=aSDEuB1e8vJDNM:

The Role Of Gender Equality In The Upbringing Of Children

                                                 Blogged by: Ayden

It is no secret that from the moment a boy or girl is brought into this world that they are treated differently. Factors like, the clothing they wear, to the way they act impact  their future role in society. Since the beginning of time boys and girls have had their “roles” and expected attributes. Males have an expectation to be “masculine” as they are taught not to cry along with not to fear. They are tough to be assertive and Confident. Girls on the other hand, are taught to not be demanding or  assertive and to be “ladylike”. Unfortunately expectations such as these have ramifications. This is as society makes it seem that girls need to be treated differently for, no reason than the fact that they are girls  

In my own experience, my parents raised me very gender neutrally.  My mom being a feminist and activist has very often made sure that, I don't feel very different from my brother.  She very often had me share toys  and my clothes with my brother in order to treat us equally. My closet consisted of gender neutral clothes which, meant my brother got my “hand me downs”.  

With tons of influences such as, the media and female celebrities I became a pretty big “girly girl”, for a few years after my brother was born. When I first arrived in Ontario, at about age 7 I was still very “girly”.  My new elementary school was where I first experienced being called out for my gender neutral upbringing. This was surprising considering I was only about 7 at the time. This affected me as I wore lots of bright colours and jewlery but,  I also really enjoyed things such as soccer, pokémon and playing in the dirt with boys. Girls used to make fun of me for being myself and wanting to do those things. I made good friends with boys who at first mocked me for wanting to play “boys games”. They  eventually became my friends and let me participate.

Now I'm very neutral, I do wear things that most girls would wear and I still enjoy things such as, sports and video games. What I'm trying to prove is that your parents style of parenting can affect how you feel as a girl or boy. In my case I feel the pressures of society made me want to  “choose a side” but, I’ve instead choose no side and, decided to just be me.

                

References

Whichever Gender Neutral Restroom Sign | 6" x 6" | Blue/White: Office Products. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Whichever-Gender-Neutral-Restroom-Sign/dp/B00J0DRRWC

Is it a Hollywood Problem? or a Cultural Problem?  

Blogged by: Meg, Zaheela, Kenz, Ayden, Rachel

Recently Hollywood’s leading male moguls have been getting slammed with sexual assault allegations, stars from Kevin spacey to Harvey Weinstein have been accused, it has started a global conversation.  These men have been allegedly sexually assaulting young actresses and sometimes actors for years. They abuse their position of power, but is this just a problem in Hollywood or is this a cultural norm that men think it's okay to assault women.

Is assault a cultural norm?

For hundreds of year`s cultural norms such as male honor, masculinity and sexual entitlement, have been the breeding ground for acceptance of sexual assault.

Women are told from a young age not to dress a certain way, so they won't be mistaken for “wanting it”.

Why should women be ashamed of their bodies, just because society tells them so? This is something in society that needs to be changed.  Women shouldn't have to be modest to be respected.

How can we change this?

Whenever we talk about assault, we always talk to women about what they can do to stop sexual assault, but to solve this problem we should really be talking to men and boys. We have to raise males into a society where it is unacceptable to harass or sexually assault anyone. Raising our boys with feminist ideals and teaching them to respect women’s bodies is the only way to resolve this issue.

References

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Snow-A-Palooza

By Chris, Cory and Jordan

Today was a successful day for Global Goal’s Group 6, Clean Water and Sanitation. We sold snow cones to get people aware of unsanitary water in different parts of the world. We used up all 5 bags of ice and still had customers wanting more even after we ran out. We raised $101.00 and still plan on selling them on Wednesday and Friday. We broke our goal for the first day and hope word gets around faster now. If NPSS see’s this post, we’re grateful for your help and hope you join in on our fun fundraiser.

Fast responses for group 16’s survey

Blogged by: Nicholas, Ethan, Carter

Last week our group placed a survey around our school and have been collecting the results. So far we only have responses from 13 people, but it’s only been up for a week, so it’s still in the early stages. The point of the survey is to acquire how different people see how the world in terms of Justice, Peace, and Strong Institutions. The survey asks the viewers Yes or No questions that ask for the extent of their knowledge the question is asking. We will then take the results and post them in a spreadsheet format to allow people to see how others feel about the question. If you are local, please fill out the survey, (it’s optional and anonymous) here is the link: “Do you think that…” Injustices in the World

        Unacceptable Defilement of Women in Myanmar

                              Blogged by: Ayden, Zaheela, Kenz, Rachel, Meg

Although war is known as a conflict that occurs between civilization, it is normally defined by it’s by life-threatening violence, destruction, and death of innocent lives. When it comes to war almost everyone suffers, but in recent “ethnic cleansing” in Myanmar, Rohingya women and girls have been largely in effect. They have been suffering because of Myanmar security forces, raping, defiling them, and sometimes getting murdered. These methods of abuse toward them are being used as a tactic to humiliate and wound Rohingya women. In terms of the rape cases, the attackers were uniformed Myanmar soldiers most with families of their own. The question that we would like answered is why are these women getting raped? Also how might this method result in other issues in the country? Not only is this method cruel, but it seems more realistic and more reasonable if the government were to let the women free instead of raping them. Also, in most cases if they were to let them go, most women who were let free would have children after the attack. If this were to happen they will most likely raise their child as a Rohingya. After doing research, we ended up finding an answer when we came across a speech that Angelina Jolie gave recently. She talked about  rape in war zones.

“ it is a myth that rape in an inevitable part of conflict. There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex,and everything to do with power.” - Angelina Jolie  

“They feel above the law because the law rarely touches them and society tolerates them”- Angelina Jolie

Her speech made us understand that rape is a weapon as powerful as a nuclear bomb and it needs to stop. All the perpetrators should get arrested and charged for there crimes like any other person who commits an act of offence .  

References

T. (2017, September 24). Retrieved from https://www.trtworld.com/asia/un-medics-say-rohingya-women-injuries-back-rape-claim-against-myanmar-army-10795

Snow Indoors!

By Chris, Jordan and Cory

For our Global Goal we have decided to sell fresh water snow cones as our fundraiser idea and will donate the money to a fresh water charity of our choice. Regarding Global Goal number six, Clean Water and Sanitation. We are planning on selling these snow cones in our school's cafetorium on Nov 27th ,29th, and Dec 1st. To make sure that people will now where and when it is we’ll be making and setting up posters around the school. During the sales we plan on also presenting a educational poster board to make sure the people buying our snowcones know what the fundraiser is really about.        

Taking Action!

Blogged by: Bethany and Presley

       Do you want to help eliminate Climate Change? It can be very simple.

1. Get involved.
2. Be energy efficient
3. Chose renewable power
4. Eat wisely
5. Trim your waste
6. Support and donate               

      

          These are some of the easy ways you can help make our world a better and greener place.

         We have been brainstorming Ideas of what we will be displaying at our global goals fair table which is a fair that our school is hosting on december 1st for our world Issues class, there we can propose are Ideas and have the opportunity to educate others about our goal. We decided to make pamphlets that briefly describes our goal and its purpose for people who aren't familiar with climate change. We also wanted to display a globe and pin all the locations in the world that have endangered species because of climate change and its impacts and decorate our table to hopefully  attract people and get them asking questions about our goal. Did you know that that three subpopulations of polar bears out of 19 are in decline and that there is a high estimated risk of future decline due to climate change?

Works Cited

Climate Change Ottawa - Google Search, www.google.ca/search?rlz=1CADEAC_enCA773CA773&biw=1366&bih=621&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=zEkcWrOKBoi9jwTYiJqgCg&q=climate+change+ottawa&oq=climate+change+ottawa&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i24k1.3970.7907.0.8269.25.15.2.7.7.0.342.1551.11j2j0j1.15.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..2.22.1444.0..0j0i67k1j0i8i30k1.46.eTVpyQzwHaI#imgrc=RF1_W5awMU6d-M:

How we can save ourselves

Blogged by: Presley and Bethany

    This week we have been working on our educational slideshow which is basically a 5-6 page slideshow explaining our goal and the purpose of our goal; global goal thirteen, climate change. My partner, Bethany recently called the principal of angus morrison (which I explained in one of the previous blogs is the elementary school we both attended) After not being able to contact with her over e-mail. The class we hoped to originally get, our grade 8 teachers at the school will be calling bethany hopefully soon. On the topic of working on our educational slideshow, one of the slides I am working on is how we can prevent climate change. For a lot of people climate change seems scary and if we’re being honest, it is. But there is a way we can make it less scary. By learning about your carbon footprint, even if you have never heard about a carbon footprint, you have one just like everyone else, the good news is that you as an individual can help reduce climate change and its impacts. To learn more about your carbon footprint and calculate how big your carbon footprint is, you can click the following link. https://www.carbonfootprint.com

References

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Soda and coffee are triggering anxiety disorders

Blog by Sarah

As an 18 year old girl, homework tends to become overwhelming as the semester advances. This causes me to depend on caffeine in order to remain alert late enough to complete my school work. Earlier in September 2017, I was diagnosed with severe anxiety & panic attacks due to a meltdown I had in my first period class from a test. Anxiety is excessive worry and panic attacks are the result of a mass amount of anxiety, provoking a heart attack-like feeling of panic. With this information, I began researching about my disorders and how they are triggered. I stumbled across this website, suggesting that caffeine increases your heart rate in order to keep you awake. With panic attacks and anxiety, your heart rate increases and may form intense chest pain. Putting these two concepts together, the website stated that the heart rate increase resembles panic attack and anxiety heart rates. This made sense to me, due to the mass amount of caffeine I consumed in order to succeed in my studying for my test the very next day. It is often told that if you fall asleep anxious, you’ll wake up anxious due to the lack of mental recovery. Therefore I am warning my fellow peers that it is important to avoid caffeine if you have potential anxiety disorders. Stay safe and make healthy choices Timberwolves!

Image references: http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17700000/Cup-of-coffee-coffee-17731301-1680-1050.jpg

Deforestation Crisis!

By: Jared, Rebecca, Aimee and Kennedy

As the Life on Land group for the UN global goals, we are focused on any issues on our planet that have a negative affect to anything living, or on earth. One of the biggest issues that we have on our planet is deforestation. Deforestation is the clearing or clearance of a forest, or group of trees to create space for land that will be used for a non-forest use. Deforestation is everywhere, and we need to end this issue. According to the World Wildlife Fund, but better known as WWF said that 36 football fields worth of trees are cut down every minute. Considering that 30% of the world's land mass is forest area, at this rate that percentage will be going down a lot in the coming years. Trees are not only beneficial for us humans as trees emit carbon dioxide in which we breathe, but trees are also homes for millions of species of animals. By cutting down and removing this many trees, we are destroying millions of animals habitats, and even killing these animals. One example of an animal that is being affected by deforestation is the panda bear. Bamboo is a key part to the diet of the panda bears diet, and with the amount of deforestation going on we are taking all there bamboo away and causing them to starve because of the lack of bamboo. Rainforests are being hit hard with deforestation. It is predicted that within 100 years, there will be no more rainforests left on earth. Deforestation is a huge issue, and it is something that needs to be stopped.

References

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Ideas For The Greater Good

By Chris, Cory and Jordan

One thing that we found interesting this week was that we were meant to share our goals. We found this a very effective way of motivating us to achieve our goals and take action in the moment, I think seeing how far our classmates are at achieving their goals really helps us put what we are doing into perspective and helps motivate us to take further action in our goal. This also helps inspire ideas for our own groups or collaborate with others so we can achieve our goal faster.

(This picture was taken as we were sharing our ideas and thoughts on each others goals.)

Affordable Housing For All!

Blogged By: Ian, Mackenzie, Brandon and Matt

The Federal Government of Canada revealed a plan to help low-income families find affordable housing this week. The plan is expected to cost $40-billion over the next 10 years. After visiting the David Busby Centre (a local drop in centre) and talking to many of their administrative staff, one of the main messages that we took away from our conversations was how serious the need for affordable housing is. There are 1.7 million Canadians that don’t have access to adequate housing. There is no doubt this is an issue that needs to be addressed.  One of the things that support centre’s focus on is getting people in tough situations back on their feet and supporting themselves. One of the most important things that they try to do is get them a place to live if they don't already have one. There are very few options for these people that are living off welfare or other government grants. What the government is trying to do is create more options that can fit the need of low income individuals and families. They will also introduce some additional benefits for low-income tenants.

So what does affordable housing look like? Well it can look like a number of different things. One program in Barrie, Ontario is converting an old motel (image 2) into apartment units. Most affordable housing units are newly built and are typically apartment style. The biggest challenge for providing this type of housing is that it is often too expensive to build residential buildings especially in highly populated urban areas where they are most useful. This is why the Government needs to invest so much money for these residents to become readily available.

This announcement has been met with a mixed reaction from housing experts, politicians, and the public. The Liberal Party's competition see the plan as ‘timid’, saying this is not enough to make a big enough impact. Many think this plan will do great things for many people all over the country. This is definitely an issue that the government has put off for far too long. I don’t think this will solve the problem in its entirety, but it is definitely a good place to start.

Works Cited

“Ontario to Table Legislation to Ensure Access to Affordable Housing.” muskoka411.Com, 15 Mar. 2016, muskoka411.com/start/ontario-to-table-legislation-to-ensure-access-to-affordable-housing/.

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Let's end world hunger

Blog by: Mickayla, Molly, Dylan, and Mady

Did you know that approximately 9 million people die of world hunger each year according to world hunger statistics; more than the death toll malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis combined in 2012 of whom were approximately 3.1 million children. That means the population of toronto 4 a a half times. To think that is such a high number can be shocking, but I think it only shocks us because we guard ourselves and your parents shield us from the fact that there are more people starving to death than live in your city. It is important for us to know what is going on because if we don’t than it will continue to get worse and it will never get better. As a society it is our job to not have to protect our children from the bad things in life because there should be nothing to hide them from.

How about this did you know that Over 75 percent of the world’s poorest grow their own food. This causes widespread food insecurity in developing countries, as drought, climate change and natural disasters can easily cut off a family’s food supply. This means that the second a tropical storm or a tsunami or any other natural disaster happens an entire family is cut off of food until they can grow more. This will leave millions of people without for extended periods of time.

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