Welcome back. I hope your Spring Break was as relaxing as mine. You will have at least one more day this week in the computer labs to tighten up your final action plan project.
Your team will need to bring in the trifold display board on THURSDAY, APRIL 4th FOR B DAY STUDENTS and FRIDAY, APRIL 5TH FOR A DAY STUDENTS.
We will continue working on the posters through the week of 4/8 – 4/12.
The poster design will be based on the Future Problem Solving Program International Community Problem Solving Project Display. A sample diagram can be found under the Homework Assignments tab of the EEE website. We will discuss specifics and/or modifications in class.
You should use this comment spot to upload final additions to the project.
Anna Vaclavek
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I have printed my book and illustrated every page, so my final additions are just simply to color the pictures, staple it, and make it nice and presentable!
I'm putting a bow on the prototype of my Plastic Ingester invention (not literally). I’ll probably finish it this week.
ReplyDelete1A--QUESTION: How many million water bottles do Americans throw away each hour?
ReplyDelete1A--ANSWER:25
1B--QUESTION: Out of my twenty water bottles how many could be recycled?
1B--ANSWER:15
2A--QUESTION: How can you reduce the number of water bottles you use?
2A--ANSWER:Get a reusable water bottle
2B--QUESTION: What things can you recycle?
2B--ANSWER: Plastics, Glass, Paper, Aluminum (one or more)
3A--QUESTION: What does reuse mean?
3A--ANSWER: To use again
3B--QUESTION: Name four things made of plastic.
3B--ANSWER: Accept anything they can think of that is in fact made of plastic.
4A--QUESTION: What does us running around the room represent?
4A--ANSWER: A gyre
4B--QUESTION: What does recycle mean?
4B--ANSWER: Turn something into something else
5A-- QUESTION: What does reduce mean?
5A--ANSWER: Use less of
5B--QUESTION: How many of my twenty water bottles could NOT get recycled?
5B--ANSWER: 5
These are the questions that the kids would be answering in order to advance in "rank". I also have them written on note cards for ease of reading during the actual game.
This should be posted in the action plan checkpoint.
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ReplyDeleteTo expand my action plan I created flyers to attract students and experts to work on my project's team. I emailed them to you.
ReplyDelete-Sydney Timmerman
Got it. Great job!
DeleteSarah, Catherine, Kailey
ReplyDeleteWe need to film and edit our video, and plan on getting that done this weekend.
Amanda and Mariah, 5th Hour
ReplyDeleteThe link to our song is here: http://youtu.be/carvJuYWtpg
We worked on the script for our documentary. Here it is:
ReplyDeleteThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By: Kate Kaufmann and Kaiya Kelley
Where does plastic go? After you throw it away? You may be thinking landfills or recycling centers. Though that may be true, but about 10% of the 100 million tons of plastic produced each year ends up in the oceans. Most of that garbage collects in the North Pacific Ocean. This grouping of trash is about twice the size of Texas and for every 1,102 tons of natural plankton there is 6,614 tons of trash. This trash vortex is called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Its name makes it seem like solid ground when really it’s a giant amount of flotsam, or floating debris, making it more of an Ocean Soup.
This is slowly becoming more of an issue with our environment. The trash is filling our ocean, and killing our oceanic wildlife, including the birds. 1 in 10 fish in the ocean at this time have plastic in their stomachs. At this time it is impossible to remove all of the trash from the ocean without taking important oceanic creatures with it because the plastic has broken into such small pieces by now. They can’t digest the plastic because their bodies won’t break it down. So it sits in their stomachs making them feel full so most of the time they will end up starving to death. And every creature in the food web of the ocean is consuming plastic. As well as ropes and nets, larger animals get caught in them and are severely injured, or end up dying. But think about the marine life that doesn’t die from ocean plastic; humans eat a lot of them. Right? So in a way we end up eating the plastic that WE put into the ocean.
Another reason plastic a real problem is that it doesn’t break down. For example a normal plastic shopping bag takes 500-1000 years to break down and with about 1 trillion plastic bags being discarded a year, they all find their way to the ocean. Even if it does biodegrade, the plastic will release toxic additives and byproducts into the seas. Bottle caps are another big offender. Americans use two million bottle caps every five minutes. But not all trash stays in the ocean. It washes up on the beaches and is unattractive to beach goers as well as hurts the beach creatures. The trash that floats in the ocean will stay there unless we do something about it, is this mark we want to leave on future generations?
But there is still hope, people are becoming more aware of the situation, scientists are beginning to look for solutions. There are ways you can help! You can recycle. Or join a club that picks up trash. Or even something as simple as picking up trash you see on the streets. And if we work together, we can change the world!
This is a link to the website I have been working on.
ReplyDeletehttps://sites.google.com/site/gpgpsoulutions/
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ReplyDeleteOwen P, Stephen D, Brooks G
ReplyDeleteOur website is finished. Here is the link.
http://journeyofabag.weebly.com/