Blog 18: Answer 2

Presentation

1. What is Your EQ?

What is the best possible way to preserve and protect our water and ecosystems?

2. What is your first answer?

My first answer is that education ids the best possible way to preserve and protect our water and ecosystems because people need to be taught about the problems at hand before we will be able to make change.

3. What is your second answer?

My second answer is that keeping our water clean is the next best possible way to conserve and protect our water an ecosystems because it plays a major part in conservation and trash greatly affects our environments.

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real world application for each

Answer 1: Education

• People need to be informed about this problem
• The problem will never be fixed if people don't know about it
• Telling younger generations about it could help them want to conserve when their older

Answer 2: Keeping the water clean

• There are multiple garbage patches in the ocean that are causing great damage
• Unclean water is starting to affect us (Rio, Flint Michigan, Texas)
• Trash is killing over 100,000 sea mammals a year

5. What Printed source best supports your answer?

http://education.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

6. What other source supports your answer?

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cabd453515244bf2b1063e15f6b680c9/ap-test-rio-olympic-water-badly-polluted-even-far-offshore

7. Tie this all together with a concluding thought.

A really large part of water conservation is keeping our water clean, so I really want to emphasize this by making it an answer. Garbage affects marine life every day, and it is quickly starting to affect humans too. The garbage found in the water creates bacteria that is extremely harmful for any life in the water. I cases like the beaches in Rio, the water is so polluted that a lot of people that go into the water catch deadly viruses, such as flesh eating bacteria. In fact, if a person where to ingest just three teaspoons of the Rio water, they would have a 99% chance of getting infected. People need to know how badly our pollution is affecting the ocean an ourselves, and by making it an answer I can inform them as to why keeping our water clean is such an important answer to my question.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

Interview

https://soundcloud.com/kyn9/interview-4

1. What is the most important thing you learned from the interview?

From this interview I actually figured out what exactly I want as the main theme for my final presentation. It was actually an idea my mentor (the person I interviewed) gave me. He said "Are we doing enough?" I thought it was a great idea and I want to center my presentation around it. I also got different ways to educate the public, and plan on using some of them if I can.

2. How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

I noticed I asked a lot more open ended questions, and questions that overall would take some explaining. This was my longest interview so far, being almost twenty minutes long. There where also a lot of silent pauses though the beginning and end, but the interview went really well an I got a lot of good information out of it.

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

Independent Component

1. Describe in detail what you plan on doing for 30 hours. 

For this component I plan on trying to educate the public about important parts of my topic while trying to learn more about each of my three answers for my EQ. I will study and look into different places that are struggling with water conservation, and take notes and write about what I find. After my study I will make a 2 - 3 minute commercial to try and educate the general public about the importance of my topic and about the places that are struggling with it. The video will take a lot of time since I will be creating, story boarding, filming and editing my commercial. After the video is completed I will be getting a QR code for the video. I will then be creating a pamphlet to promote and teach about the importance of water conservation, and on the pamphlet I will put the QR code for my commercial. I will be handing out the pamphlet to various people, and may hand some around at the school. 

2. Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I will be taking notes and writing a lot of information on my study, and then filming and taking alot of pictures for my commercial. I will try to get pictures of me filming as well. Finally I will create The pamphlet, with the QR code on it. All of these things combined should be enough evidence to prove that I have completed 30 hours of the independent component.

3. Explain how this component will help you explore your topic more in depth.

The study will help me find out more about places that are suffering because of lack of water of contaminated water, such as Flint Michigan. Puting together a commercial will help me see what some of the best ways are to educate the public about my topic and show them its importance, and the pamphlet will allot me to get the video around and explain the whole point of the video. Over all the video will help me educate public while helping find out more about my topic.

Independent Component 1

Independent Component

I, Kyndra Isom, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours of work.

Sources: 

1.      http://www.livescience.com/39625-aquifers.html

2. http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/freshwater_supply/freshwater.html

3.       http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/various-ocean-pollution-facts.php

4.       https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/16/new-nasa-studies-show-how-the-world-is-running-out-of-water/

5.       http://education.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

6.       http://www.home-water-works.org/indoor-use/showers

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680051/all-the-water-it-takes-to-produce-a-burger

These are various sites where I got information for my answers and ideas for my questions. Each website is numbered for which question I used that website for. I also got information from a book called "When the Rivers Run Dry" by Fred Pearce.

What I did:

I created a survey to see how much the general public really knows about water conservation. The point of this was to hopefully prove that the public needs to be more educated about certain things involving water conservation. I started by doing research on what I should create my survey on. This was basically so I could try and figure out the important parts of water conservation that people need to learn more about. After that I created the survey and the answer sheet. The answer sheet gave the correct  answers to the survey as well as giving reason as to why it was the correct answer. So while I was taking surveys I was also teaching the public more about this issue. I got a bunch of different age groups for my survey, including kids from Mrs. Thinnes class, family members, and adults from my parents work places. After I got all of my surveys I Compiled all of the information together. I also took some hours from my mentorship and put it towards my independent component. My mentorship is actually where I got the idea to try and educate the public. In my mentorship I started to realize the amount of people that don't know about water conservation. Through this survey I was able to pinpoint the areas that need to be taught the most. The final thing I did for my independent component was my analysis. Through my analysis I was able take the information I got from my surveys and see what needs to be taught more. I took apart each question and its results, and explained what should be done with that information.

Here is a copy of the survey that I gave out, the answers for the questions, and the sources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tmIqDyLWcqIpsVNLDtxXyNKRxCZnQCDiLGviJFaVA7k/edit?usp=sharing

Here is my final analysis and the results from every question from the surveys:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nJWgivNu7Gv9VUbxoPOa0efuau1j4OYtaIHqsilyOHU/edit?usp=sharing

This independent component helped me prove that we need to educate the public more about the topic of water conservation. I also helped me pinpoint the areas that the public needs to know more about. For example, through my survey I found out that most people don't know how much water goes into their everyday lives and most of the food that they eat. This information is extremely important for them to know because it could completely change their perspective on water conservation and make them consider how much water goes into something before they buy it. This really ties into over consumption as well, and how we need to cut back on this in order to lessen the amount of water that is used to make things that we buy. Through my surveys and analysis I also learned that most people already know about aquifers and how much fresh water is on the planet, so I wont need to focus on that as much as other things. I was also able to teach people through out my independent component through my survey and my answer sheet. The answer sheet gave in depth answers to every question that I asked. 100 people took my survey and got an answer sheet, so hopefully through that answer sheet they where able to learn more about my topic and why it is so important. I ended up learning a lot from this component and will hopefully now be able to go forward and teach others more about my topic.

Lesson 2 Reflection

Presentation 

1. What are you most proud of in your lesson two presentation and why?

I am really proud that I made time. I spoke for twelve minutes, and I ended my presentation at 24 minutes an 40 seconds. I did cut it really close, but I'm still really glad that I made time. People also seemed to enjoy my activity, and I ended up having a lot of fund with it, so I am proud of my activity and I plan on using it again for my hook activity in my final presentation.

2. What assessment would you give yourself on your lesson two presentation?

I would give myself a P because I did everything that was required and I made time.

3. What worked for you in your lesson two?

My activity did really well and a lot of people had fun with it. I also noticed that after my activity I got a lot more comfortable with talking in front of the class because I knew they where interested. I also am glad that I practiced beforehand for my presentation so I knew how to space out my time.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine what would you have done differently to improve  your lesson two?

If I could go back I would have shortened my activity. My activity ended up being a lot longer than expected, and that didn't give me a lot of time for my conclusion. By the time my activity ended I had about forty seconds left for my conclusion, so I had to kinda speed through it.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

Being active (maybe...)