As a final assignment for our mini unit we had to write a letter to the company who package we took apart. this is what I wrote:
Dear Dr.pepper,
My name is Blanca (I used a fake name...) and I am in the 7th grade. For a science project my teacher asked us to take apart a package. I chose Dr.Pepper. From what I can tell you are a fairly eco-friendly company, but I was wondering if you had any suggestions of how you could improve your product to make it more eco-friendly.
Sincerely,
Blanka Jones
This is what they wrote back,
Dear Parent or Guardian of Blanka:
We received Blanka's e-mail and are pleased she chose to write to us! For more information on our company we ask that you please visit www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com.
We thank Blanka for her e-mail and hope she enjoys the holidays!
Sincerely,
Consumer Relations
Well it's not really what I had hoped but they responded. I have looked at the site the gave me and I found some pretty cool facts. Dr.Pepper is trying to recycle 80% of the wast they produce. They are also planning to replace all their machines by 2013 to those that will save 30% more energy then the current ones they use. Not only is everything in their package recyclable but they are doing a ton to try and clean up their act. Go Dr.Pepper!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Reflect on the unit question (
What is a necessity and how does an organism ensure survival of its species within its environment?) and how it relates to the unit title: Ultimate Survival. The unit question relates to the unit title because it is what you will need to find out to answer the unit question. In this unit we learned a lot about what specialties an organism has adapted to survive in an environment. When you are not on the top of the food chain it's a definite struggle to stay alive. When you learn about all the things different species adapt to stay alive you can understand what it takes to ensure ultimate survival.
Reflect on what has helped you in understanding the "big idea" of the unit.
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With the time we took to explore the unit question,concept, and area of interaction I think we really got it down. To explore the question, we took lots of notes and learned some terminology to help us explain things. We watched powerpoints and created presentations as well. To understand the concept, we did another project, wrote an essay, and took a test to make sure we understood everything. For the area of interaction, I think this is where the wast section. For this we looked into the human effect on the environment. We watched food INC., dissected packages, and wrote to companies asking them how they think they can improve the amount of wast they send out. We had a lot of communication with the outside world, and this ties into what we are doing in LA. Learning what we have I think we have a new found sense of whats right and wrong, and how humans impact the environment. No only did we learn a branch of science through this unit but we also learned about how we as individuals can improve our lifestyle and how we impact earth.
Reflect on what has helped you in understanding the "big idea" of the unit.
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Big Idea: Students will understand the use and management of natural resources, the transformation of resources into human capital, goods, tools and machines as well as sustainable development of human society to maintain the delicate balance between man and the natural environment. The things that helped me understand what was going on in the unit was the terminology. I knew the words for everything which helped me apply and understand concepts and Ideas we were talking about. One way I could apply this was the essays we wrote. Knowing terms like carrying capacity, niche, ect. really helped me write my essay clearly and efficiently. Another thing that really helped me out was understanding the food web. Drawing out the food pyramid gave me a visual of the carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, and decompose rs. This helped me understand the flow of energy and a lot more.
How did the unit question allow us to view survival through The Area of Interaction: Environments:(FOR EXAMPLE: The effects of one environment on another, the roles our environments play in the lives and well-being of humankind, and the effects of our actions, attitudes and constructs, such as sustainable development and conservation.) The unit question allowed us to view survival through
the area of interactions because the unit questions answered what we needed to know about the area of interaction. The unit question is what is necessarily to ensure the species to ensure survival. Once you know this you can answer the effects environments have on each other, the impact humans have on the environment, and other questions like these.
What would you have liked to do more of? Less of?
I felt like this unit when a little long. I felt like it was broken up by fall break and the second unit was more about human wast, but it was deffanatly a long unit. I think the wast part could be a lot shorter, or maybe we could just move it along faster, and the so could the survival unit. Other then that this was a really fun unit and I enjoyed all the research, projects, movies, and activities we did.
In your point of view, how well did we investigate the unit question, concept, and area of interaction? Include this in your reflection as well and give specific examples to support your opinions.
How did the unit question allow us to view survival through The Area of Interaction: Environments:(FOR EXAMPLE: The effects of one environment on another, the roles our environments play in the lives and well-being of humankind, and the effects of our actions, attitudes and constructs, such as sustainable development and conservation.) The unit question allowed us to view survival through
the area of interactions because the unit questions answered what we needed to know about the area of interaction. The unit question is what is necessarily to ensure the species to ensure survival. Once you know this you can answer the effects environments have on each other, the impact humans have on the environment, and other questions like these.
What would you have liked to do more of? Less of?
I felt like this unit when a little long. I felt like it was broken up by fall break and the second unit was more about human wast, but it was deffanatly a long unit. I think the wast part could be a lot shorter, or maybe we could just move it along faster, and the so could the survival unit. Other then that this was a really fun unit and I enjoyed all the research, projects, movies, and activities we did.
With the time we took to explore the unit question,concept, and area of interaction I think we really got it down. To explore the question, we took lots of notes and learned some terminology to help us explain things. We watched powerpoints and created presentations as well. To understand the concept, we did another project, wrote an essay, and took a test to make sure we understood everything. For the area of interaction, I think this is where the wast section. For this we looked into the human effect on the environment. We watched food INC., dissected packages, and wrote to companies asking them how they think they can improve the amount of wast they send out. We had a lot of communication with the outside world, and this ties into what we are doing in LA. Learning what we have I think we have a new found sense of whats right and wrong, and how humans impact the environment. No only did we learn a branch of science through this unit but we also learned about how we as individuals can improve our lifestyle and how we impact earth.
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