Sunday, August 23, 2009

4th reflection

What did your group have to work on ?
Think of ideas for our presentation.

What progress did your group make ?
We finished making the final edits and cuts for our final product.

What did your group learn or find out ?
We all have to trust each other and our abilities.

What does your group need to do for the following week?
We need to make final plans for our presentation .

3rd reflection

What did your group have to work on ?
We had to start working on our project and script it .

What progress did your group make ?
We finished planning the location for the filming and the script .

What did your group learn or find out ?
We found out that sometimes, when you work in groups, angers will start to flare. But getting through the hard times only makes our group stronger .

What does your group need to do for the following week?
We are going to have to act out the video and compile the scenes.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Project Proposal Form

Title of our Project:
Caring for the Environment

Project Focus:
Reducing Climate Change & Saving the Earth

Our Reasons for choosing this project:
We love this planet and this is the only planet that we can live in.

This project is linked to:
Topic:
* Caring for the Earth
* Environmental Convervation
* Environmental awareness
Subject:* Geography
* Science
* English

Key questions :
1) What can we do to save the Earth from global warming and Ozone depletion?
2)What are the different ways to reduce pollution?
3)How badly is the Earth Affected?
4)Will this continue?
5)What are the after effects of these environmental problems?
6)How to contribute to this positively?
7)How to spread the awareness of this severe negative impact on the Earth to teenagers?

Suggested resources:
*Magazines
*Library
*Internet
*Reference books
*Geography / Science text books
*Interviews
*Organisations

What we plan to produce:
Oral presentation:Who is our audience? What is the purpose of our presentation?
* Audience -> Public
* To increase the awareness of Saving the Earth as it's in a very bad condition.

Product
Who is audience? What is the purpose of our product?
* The public
* To alert people that if we don't save our planet now, we may not be able to in the future.

Visual/Graphic Presentation
Advertisement.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Gap analysis

Current Status: People in Singapore are suffering from Global Warming and the ozone layer is getting depleted and hence, people re getting more warmer and some people who have sensitive skin, get skin cancer of the heat in the atmosphere. The sea level is also rising due to the heat as the ice caps in the poles melt.

Factors:

  • CFC
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Greenhouse gasses
  • Harmful gases produced by factories/ industries
  • Improper disposal of waste.

Desired State: The environment to be clean and green. For us to breathe in clean air and stay healthy. For the Earth to be safe by not having global warming and ozone depletion.

Possible Problem Statements:

  • People using CFC products
  • Not using public transport
  • Wasting electricity
  • littering
  • improper disposal of waste by factories

2nd reflection

What did your group have to work on ?
We had to do research , collate the data and make a survey to collect more data.

What progress did your group make ?
We have printed out our data and our survey .

What did your group learn or find out ?
We have learned more about Global warming,Types of pollution and the depletion of our Ozone layer .

What does your group need to do for the following week?
We need to finish working on our final piece / product and prepare for our presentation .