Green+Team

G.O.A.T. (green.on.american.turf)

(Questions) 1: Is making our school/ society a more “green” place necessary? 2: Where should solar panels be installed? 3: Does t he majority of people think that solar panels are needed? 4: Do people in our town think that the panels are an eye sore? 5: What should the Solar panels run in our town?

(Essential question)

What are ways we can make ourselves more green.

(Challenge)

Try and get people to agree to invest in getting solar panels in our school or around town.

(Guiding activities)

1.survey In our survey, we asked both students and teachers if they were willing to go out of their way to save paper (ie use things such as turn it in, use quia for quizzes) and the results were 30 out of 32 students were willing to do it and 5 out of 7 teachers were willing to do it 2. Talking to principle/environmental club 3. Seeing if we can get solar panels installed in the school

(guiding resources)

http://wwf.panda.org/how_you_can_help/live_green/save_paper/

(teacher reviews) Jerome
 * these are two teachers that i asked about what they think about using paper******

It’s more of a convenience Doesn’t really think about the paper issue Tries harder not to make her kids print stuff out

Lewis

More of a convenience Prefers turnit in Doesn’t think about the green factor

(action/solution) There are so many ways that this school could save paper, but doesn't. According to most pv students and teachers, they are willing to go out of their was in order to save paper. The goal of our group is to figure out ways in which paper can be saved around the school and try our best to convince teachers to use these new methods. Some methods such as using turnitin.com, online textbooks, communicators in math, and online quizzes can help cut down paper usages tremendously. Ultimately our goal is to get PV to just be aware of how import it is to be eco friendly and the effect that pollution and waste can have on our world. Some things in this school that waste energy we can not control so we decided to concentrate on a more manageable subject such as paper waste.

To be green is to help our society be a better place. Ways you can help is by installing solar panels, recycling paper/ bottles, and also conserve energy. A way to start being greener is to help out in a familiar place such as a town park or you school for example. We started out trying to see what we could do about installing solar panels but when we went to the principle to talk about it he said they weren’t cost effective. After we found that out we decided to go on another path towards saving paper.

Our group decided to see what the teachers and students think about saving paper. Having school computers is one way to help save paper. Computers now have online textbooks so we don’t have to waste all the paper that textbooks use.