The Horse 2023

Concept: 

- Team: Alicia, Leonie, Luana

- Research question: How much plastic waste do we produce (until bottle is filled)?

We have to look up where and how we can donate these bottles to factories/if they need it.

Is it even possible to give them away in Switzerland?

- Our answer (Project description, methods/techniques):

 We start putting our plastic waste in a plastic botte to see how long it takes to fill it up and how much waste we produce, take a picture every day of bottle and plastic piece that goes in the bottle.

We estimate the duration of the filling process up to 2 weeks.

Rules: cut up big plastic pieces so that it fits, use evian 75cl bottle

-->if the small botte fills up too fast we try to redo the project with a bigger bottle

- Material & difficulties:

1 Evian 75cl bottle, plastic waste we produce ourselves

Difficulties may be the bigger plastic pieces that don't fit or hard plastic that can hardly be cut smaller. 

-goal/result: Find out how long/how much plastic it takes to fill up such a bottle, measure how much waste there is in a period of time. 

Time plan:

How to make bottle bricks

Our team: Alicia, Leonie, Luana

Research question: How much plastic waste do we produce (until bottle is filled)?

We have to look up where and how we can donate these bottles to factories and find out if they need it. Is it even possible to give them away in Switzerland?

Our answer: in progress

Description/methods/techniques:

We start putting our plastic waste in a plastic bottle to see how long it takes to fill it up and how much waste we produce, take a picture of the bottle every day.

We estimate the duration of the filling process to take up to 2 weeks.

Rules: cut up big plastic pieces so they fit, use Evian 75cl bottle

Material & difficulties: 1 evian 75cl bottle, plastic waste we produce ourselves, keep used plastic throughout the day, bigger plastic pieces, hard plastic (difficult to cut up)

Experts comment: not available yet

Goal/Result: find out how long and how much plastic it takes to fill up such a bottle, measure how much waste there is in a short period of time

Time plan:

How to make bottle bricks: https://www.ecobricks.org/how/?lang=de

(I) Names of collaboration team members (Who?): 
Team from Wetzikon: Celine & Daniel 
Potential-Team: Inter-Community-School Zürich or International School Zurich North
 
(II) Your Research Question (What?) 

Wider question (with link to your post):  

What are green roofs and how do they operate? 

Refined question:  

1. How does a green roof function?  
2. How much does a green roof cost per m²? (Cost estimate) 
3. What are the different types of green roofs and what benefits do they have to offer? 
4. How is a green roof built? How do we build one in miniature form? 
5. How will the young students (from the school) take to our project? More...

1. Names collaboration team members

• Luisa and Belinda
  
  

2. Research Question

• Is it a good idea to use wind power in Switzerland?
• How does a wind turbine work?
  
  

3. Project describtion, methods/techniques

• Documentation/post on dontwastemyenergy answering our questions
• Interview with an expert
• Short video explaining how wind turbines work
  
  

4. Material

• Articles about wind power
• Software for the video
• Fotos and statistics
  
  

5. Experts Comment

• Interview with an expert

6. Goal/Result

• Introduction
• Audio of the Teaser
• Video about how wind turbines work
• Text (answering our questions) and in between pictures
• Link to interview

By Luisa and Belinda

1) Mind your class category

2) Mind the befter category:
    1 Vision and Imagination
    2 Ideas and Team building
    3 Experience on site
    4 Shape and create
    5 Reflection
    6 Publishing
    7 Promotion and feedback
    
3) Mind your project category
   >Overview of project ideas

Project categories:
Climate impacts
Green roofs
Green gaming
Aquarium
Waste water
Fast fashion
Coral reefs
Impacts through conflicts
Penan from Borneo
Wind power
Ski resort
Bottle bricks
Apple leather
Animal welfare
Sports
Formula 1
[in progress]

Well, that's my title. Nothing special, but that should clarify a process that many (or at least I) do not know. Here in Switzerland, wastewater treatment is a commonplace that is used by the vast majority of people. In the context of the subject "Technology and Environment", I would like to get to the bottom of this. For this I have thought about some guiding principles:

… Hold on, before I think about these, I would like to have the exact definition of vision and imagination first.

The vision is the idea of an ideal future state that is aspired to. Here: how should wastewater be treated in the future?

Vision, Mission, Strategie einfach erklärt

An imagination is a content represented in the mind, which goes back to a perception, usually also with a mental processing of perceived content. An imagination can result in something that is not present in reality or could even never be present. Likewise, however, imaginations can also represent realistic future-related expectations, or they can be based on memories.

Definition Vorstellung

Now that that's cleared up, I can get back to my questions….

Why did I choose this project?
This is where my biggest problem actually starts. I know that I want to find out what happens between the drainage of the water in the apartment to the complete reuse. Because I have no idea about everything in between. So accordingly, I chose this project and to understand this process.

What do I want to achieve? And how?
In a primary step, I first want to understand everything. Probably there is also not "The wastewater treatment" but many different forms, which are adapted to the wastewater of a particular area. In a second step I would like to share my knowledge. I always find it amazing how many everyday things we are not aware of. And besides, additional knowledge is never bad.

For the first goal, I have several options. The easiest would probably be to ask the Internet. But since that would be a bit too short and boring for me, I'm looking for other options. With a little luck, I have the opportunity to speak directly with someone in the field who can answer all my questions.

For the second goal, I depend on my fellow human beings. Do they find it exciting as well? Are they interested? Do they visit Don't waste my energy? Many questions could follow here.

What should the result be so that I am satisfied?
I would like to realize a project that helps me and others. I would like to say, "Yes, I have understood that pretty well now." Especially the environmental aspect should not be neglected. I think that this plays a big role in wastewater treatment.

How does this project benefit me in the future?
With this project, I understand why wastewater treatment exists and how it works. Of course, it is not knowledge that is needed in most everyday life, but it is certainly not bad to know about it. Maybe I will also learn other facts, such as how our environment could be protected and supported even more.

(This post is related to task 18 and befter step 1)

Alle müssen etwas machen :-)

>Why do we procrastinate? Especially with sprints and deadlines, many people have a tendency to put everything off. But actually, the challenge should be tackled and fun... right?

BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Why do we procrastinate? (bbc.co.uk) More...

I thought about my project, I envisioned how my project could look like when it is done. I am trying to figure out what I want with my project. These are the questions I asked myself.

How should the project look like when it is done?

What do I want to reach with my project?

What could I improve on this world with my project?

• How should the project look like when it is done?

It should be something of value, I want to create something I can be proud of. My goal is to have a project which adds value to the people who will read this. I would like to give something back to this world. I want to be able to introduce the people to the way of living from the Penan.

• What do I want to reach with my project?

I want to teach people, that there is an alternative way of living. A possibility to widen their horizon and rethink if their own way of life and asses if it is the right way to live.

• What could I improve on this world with my project?

In the long run, I would like to improve the overall situation regarding the views on the environment. I would like, that people realize that we just one planet, and we need to be careful on how we treat it. Nothing is unlimited on earth and as long as we don't change anything we won't survive in the long run. I want to reach that goal with portraying the Penan and show that there is an alternative way.

What is our vision and imagination for our project regarding the protection of coral reefs?

We want to spread awareness and give tips on how we can protect the coral reefs.

The world's coral reefs are suffering from the devastating impacts of pollution, climate change, tourism, overfishing and other threats. Approximately 500 million people worldwide depend on reefs for food. Coral reefs cover just 0.2% of the world's seafloor but are home to a quarter of all marine life. Two thirds of the Great Barrier Reef is already bleached.

We will talk about various ways to protect the coral reefs in our project and hopefully be able to publish that article. We will also write about the way we endanger corals and how it affects us. Our goal is to make sure more people are aware of it and will also spread the word to others. In order to make a difference we have to start somewhere and hope that it will reach a big amount of people.

Yannick, Edi and Mia