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Be Clean, Go Green

2009
Essential Question: •What are alternative ways of helping to solve environmental problems? •What are people doing to create a sustainable earth? Curriculum Standards: WRITING PROCESS: Standard4: Editing for Language Conventions The student will edit and correct the draft for standard language conventions. Standard5: Publishing The student will write a final product for the intended audience. WRITING APPLICATIONS: Standard2: Informative The student develops and demonstrates technical writing that provides information related to real-world tasks. Standard3: Persuasive The student develops and demonstrates persuasive writing that is used for the purpose of influencing the reader. INFORMATION AND MEDIA LITERACY: Standard1: Informational Text The student comprehends the wide array of informational text that is part of our day to day experiences. Standard2: Research Process The student uses a systematic process for the collection, processing, and presentation of information. Standard3: Media Literacy The student develops and demonstrates an understanding of media literacy as a life skill that is integral to informed decision making. Standard4: Technology The student develops the essential technology skills for using and understanding conventional and current tools, materials and processes. We expect this project will introduce people to new ways of helping the enviroment. When people think of enviromentalism people think of solar panels and wind turbines. People are not exposed to all the ways people are trying to help our enviroment. This project will help the world because it looks at other ways of helping to cut back on polution while showing that enviromentalism and industry can go hand in hand.(Demonstarted by alternate fuel sources for car and sustainble development in the third world) For this project the resources we are using is the internet. For a twentieth and twenty first century problem it is fitting that we will use a contemporary invetion to aid in our research.

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Team

CHELSEAHagerty High School, FL, United States

PABLOHagerty High School, FL, United States

BRANDENHagerty High School, FL, United States

MICHAELHagerty High School, FL, United States

Age Range

19 & under

Coaches

Po DickisonHagerty High School, FL, United States

Category

Science & Technology > Life Science > Ecology

Audience

All ages

Language

English

Team Collaboration

CHELSEA P

Throughout this entire project i have learned a lot about other cultures and i have learned about all the issues in the world today. The project also gave me the ability to learn how to make a difference in our world. The fact that i did water conservetion and what the issues our communities and other countries are having with water. Water is a big issue and it is a neccessity and it needs to be addressed

BRANDEN O

I found this project very informative. I have always been passionate about the environment. This project gave me a platform on which to pursue my interest in environmentalism. Also I learned many new things about each of the group member’s topics that I did not know before. The having to use diversity part really made this project interesting. It opened my eyes to a variety of sources I would have never looked at before. Usually in a project I only look at American sources but the fact that our project has to have global influence made me want to look at international perspectives on our various topics. Finally I truly believe that we were able to get our point across in a concise and informative manner.

PABLO O

I have to say this project was one of the most technologically-advanced projects we have been given here at Hagerty High School. It was interesting and at times difficult. We as a team beat these hardships and took it down like we were rams going for the kill. We had enjoyed this project to our fullest extent and we as a team can say that we are very proud of our outcomes. We are really impressed with the content that was put onto our pages. We strived to make it "info-friendly" yet fun in an educational stand-point. We hope you like it!!!!!

MICHAEL N

We all worked hard trying to bring our own personalities into it. Everybody put 100% into this project. At times we did have some disagreements but we worked them all out in the end. I feel that we did a good job. All of us stuck to our topic and stayed on task. This was a fun project and helped me learn more effective ways of going green and which products are the best. Not only did I learn a lot from my research but from reading my teams work I was able to learn more about other countries and how they are being more Earth friendly.

Team Diversity

My name is Chelsea, i was born and raised in oviedo, florida. my father is half Puerto Rican half Italian, my mother on the other hand is Irish, Polish,and German. my parents were both brought up in broken households, however my family is extremely close both families are from different sides of the world and have delt with prejudice in there relationship. we still manage to be very up lifting towards everyone in the family and get along. there is another huge part of my life the three children my family adopted all under the age of 9 and all my brothes. the fact that we have such a large family has a lot of impact on our water consumption and electric bill the sad thing is no one in my family is really very in to recycling but hopefully the statistics will change there mind.

My parents met in Germany. My father was a lieutenant in the army. My mother was English and was working on the army base. My father is still in the Army so I have moved a lot. I was born in Detroit, Michigan. I have lived in Arizona, Maryland, Virginia, Germany, Canada and Florida. Having lived oversees I have a unique perspective on things. In Germany I went to the Organic Market every Saturday. Since that early age I have always been passionate about organic farming. Also England is very big into Organic Farming. The current heir to the British Throne, Prince Charles, is a big proponent of organic farming and most of my research on the subject is from English studies. I addition I became passionate about the environment when I lived in Canada. Canada is very Green and that has influenced me greatly. Most of my life experience up to this point and my family diversity helped influence and inspire me to pursue this topic.

My name is Pablo. My father was born in San Juan Puerto Rico and so was his mother and father. He lived there all his life. His Grandmother was from the Italian island of Sicily. She moved to Puerto Rico when she was 12 and she met my fathers' grandfather, Felipe Ortiz I, in Puerto Rico. They gave birth to my grandfather and he married a Puerto Rican woman, Maria Ortiz. They both had my dad in Santurce, Puerto Rico. My dad married my mom from Ponce, Puerto Rico and they gave birth to me and my brothers. My mom's line is fully Puerto Rican all the way back to when the Spaniards, Africans, and Taino Indians blended. I was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico in 1993 and I moved to Orlando, Florida when I was 3 years old.I am fluent in both Spanish and English.As I was growing up I was introduced to alot of poverty and polluted areas.