Art piece: Me and my teammate are envisioning of recreating the art piece ‘ The Great Wave of Kanagawa’. Since once of the requirements is that we can’t do any type of traditional style of art such as drawing or painting, my teammate and I have decided to recreate the painting using plastic wrappers. The timeline of creating the piece shouldn’t take long, I just need to get a poster board, I could easily find one at school, and outline the waves. What we mainly have to do is-as weird as this sounds- is the process of collecting as many white,and dark and light blue wrappers. What We Hope the Audience Will Take Away : Plastic is a really big cause of pollution- plastic breaks down in the ocean and is ingested by seabirds, and humans will as well be affected by the toxins- and since plastic can be so difficult to recycle (although possible always check if it is ) this would be a great way to reuse it. To recreate the waves, instead of using paints or pencils we will use the wrappers and glue them down into the outline drawn on the poster board. I also want to keep some type of chart, diagram, chart, whichever, to show how little (hopefully ) it took for us to collect that much plastic to show our everyday consumption of it, and I really do hope people will take this into account, and limit their reduce their use of plastic, since not only is it a place that humans and creatures depend on, but the ocean is a place I also love. This is still being decided, it depends on our time, but we have thought of also collecting some type ofblack wrappers or plastic to represent an oil spill, another huge cause of pollution, in our art-piece. We will present this during our project presentation explain our thought process behind it , in hope to really push peoples thinking on pollution.
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New Tech is built on a foundation of trust, respect, and responsibility, so as you can guess being a student at the school you possess a lot of responsibility. We are aloud off campus, we don't need hall passes and in general are allowed a lot more freedom than others attending high school, and in return we are to be responsible with those privileges.
But to me being a New Tech student means something more. I knew even before I came here that New Tech just seemed different both academically -and not because of the project based learning- and socially. And after spending several weeks here I think I have figured out what that difference is, and its the students. Most of them. It doesn't just feel like the school crammed a bunch of hormonal teens into classrooms, it feels like a community of accepting people (including the staff members) who want to grow and learn. And I personally don't know whether its just the "type"of people New Tech attracts, or if the people here are responsible and know to respect others I'm still figuring that out, but I have four more years for that... but I do know that I think I made the right choice in coming here. TOPIC:
My Biology class is starting our new project, Oceanography. Hence the title of the project, each team was given a topic having to do with the ocean ranging from human health, art, chemistry, and pollution which my team was assigned. Which I’m super excited to be learning about. Cause/How to Prevent Pollution: The subtopics I chose concerning pollution was ‘what are the types of pollution,' - from oil spills, sewage, toxic chemicals and other sources-and’ how can we prevent it on a large and small scale.’ I also will touch briefly on how pollution in our oceans affects the people and creatures that depend on them. The effect of pollution is a lot larger than most people might think. Pollution can disrupt the food chain by damaging even the smallest of sea creatures, which might seem insignificant, but are really essential to maintaining a balanced and healthy ocean. Pollution also damages the well being of people who depend on it on the ocean and the food provided by the ocean, such as the chemicals from the fish we eat can be transmitted into us, and the overall health of the ocean. Some ways each one of us could easily prevent the amount of pollution, that don't require the stricter government regulations on industry and manufacturing renewable energy sources so off-shore drilling no longer needed, is to recycle, reduce the consumption of plastic, use less electricity, or volunteer at one of your local beaches cleanups. What I want People to Realize/Take Away: For me, I want my presentation, blog posts, art piece(s) or whatever else I do that concerns this project, is to have people realize that pollution does have a huge effect on our oceans, and the people and creatures that depend on them. Not only that, but pollution doesn’t have to be stopped by the government, but you start helping by doing simple things such as helping volunteer for a beach cleanup, or even just recycling. Campaign. (n.d.). Retrieved October 11, 2016, from http://oceana.org/our-campaigns/stop_ocean_pollution/campaign Pollution Prevention - Save Our Shores. (n.d.). Retrieved October 11, 2016, fromhttp://saveourshores.org/what-we-do/pollution-prevention/ Architecture, B. B. (n.d.). Solutions for Ocean Pollution. Retrieved October 11, 2016, fromhttp://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Solutions_for_Ocean_Pollution |
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