Nature Walk

1) I believe that our nature walk was very successful. All of the little kids really enjoyed all of the cool things they saw. My kids name was Raven. She was a very talkitive little girl and actually already knew alot about nature and what she wants to do to help the environment. Within the first couple minutes of walking we saw a piece of trash on the ground and I swear, she nearly had a fit. She was all but cussing at the world and saying that we needed to go back to her classroom and get some trash bag so that we could pick all of the litter up off of the ground. I actually got to learn all of the stuff that she knew about nature.

2) The water chemistry we are doing is the biological oxygen demand test. This test is pretanent to our project because it will help us find out how much sewage is affecting our trails.

3) We are doing a project about improving trails. We are going to be putting out trail markers and handing out maps to raise peoples awarness of our trailand what is on it.

4) My group is doing well on our project. We have painted about  half of our trail makers and are going to be getting ready to putting them in the ground soon. We are also going to improve the map of the trail that we were originally given.

5) My responsibilities for the project are photography, letter-writing campaign, website creation, writing the action plan, constucting the power point, and adding effects.

Carbon Footprint

1) http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/

2)This site was extremely good for me and would be for younger kids because it has much interaction and pictures to help you along.

3)My carbon footprint would need 4.9 earths to be supported.

4)
   A) I can leave the water off when  brush my teeth, walk to places I need to go and take shorter showers.

   B) I can ride my bike to school, use a notebook online to conserve paper, and  I can recycle all my papers that I don't need anymore.
   C) I can set up recycling bins around town, I can walk to school instead of driving, and I can get the school to make bike routes so that other people can also ride their bikes to school.




5) For my action project, I am getting cross walks installed so that it is safer for younger kids to walk to school. This will reduce not only my carbon footprint but the carbon footprint of many people in the school district. In doing this i hope to inspire more people to take action like i am doing but in their own way or own community.

Google Map of Eaton Rapids

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS316&q=what+is+the+biggest+and+smallest+great+lake+in+terms+of+volume&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&ion=1&biw=1344&bih=620&wrapid=tlif131768691215410&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

First Post

I would like to learn a lot of things about internet and technology. The downfall is that I don't yet know much about any of it. I would like to learn how to use this blog first of all because it seems pretty important to this class. This blog so far seems pretty cool though, and I think that it might be fun to use once I learn how to. I would also like to know how the internet works. I just don't under stand how someone can come up with the idea to invent the internet.

I hope to learn about all the many varieties of science that affect the world around me. The things I would like to learn about most though are natural disasters. From the time I was a little girl I would watch the weather channel to find out about the most recent storm or tornado. Although, all storms and natural disasters fascinate  I have always been the most enthralled with tornadoes.  So this trimester, in Global Science, I hope to learn how tornadoes and all the other natural disasters effect my surrounding community.