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.
