Independent Component
I, Kyndra Isom, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours of work.
Sources:
2. http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/freshwater_supply/freshwater.html
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
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.
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.
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