Advisory

Today in Advisory, students discussed the following prompts:

-As an advisory, can we rank the categories of carbon usage from biggest to smallest?  (Categories:  transportation, home, food, purchases)

-Can you remember which factors contribute to each usage category?

Then students were asked to think about how they might reduce their carbon usage for --

• transportation: (train instead of plane, carpooling, biking, public transport)
• home: (size of house, type of house, heating method, temperature inside home while heating / air conditioning in the summer, lights, water usage [dishes, clothes, showers, sprinklers, teeth-brushing], waste management)
• food: diet, eating organic, eating local, composting
• purchases: types of containers, electronics, drinking water, shopping bags, natural fabrics vs synthetic

Students analyzed  their own data and came up with 3 different ways they could personally reduce carbon usage on a daily basis. Here are some examples:

Conservation Experiment:

Each student will be doing a two-week experiment using one of the conservation ideas that was brainstormed during advisory today. They just need to have some idea what experiment they will do (they will need a hypothesis, way of measuring data, method of recording data, method of presenting data in a lab report, and a conclusion backed by clear evidence). These lab reports will be reviewed and worked on in Science Class.

At home:

We would like to encourage families to discuss this experiment with your child, and to support their efforts by monitoring their progress.