Nicolas Reed Science Blog

        What I Did              The project that Adventure did was called a Charity Fair.  The project was to find a charity and give facts about why it should be the charity for your grade.  Then we had to write a persuasive essay about why the student council should chose this charity (Diego and I chose St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) and the essay had to be 5 paragraphs long ( for my class ).  Another thing you had to do was figure out the carbon footprint for your item that you are going to sell.  Other things you had to do involve cost and profit analysis.   The Start of the Project Blog What I learned from doing this project is what a school fair is all about which is the people learning from your presentation not you, well partly you. The other thing I learned is in order to get people to come look at your project you need to be organized. Another thing I learned wa...

     This week my class is learning about carbon footprints in science for our charity fair projects. What I learned this week about carbon footprints is that it is mostly about the weight and distance that the item travels. The way to find a carbon footprint for an item is knowing it's origin, how far it is traveling ( in KM ), what is the likely way it is going to travel by, how much CO2 will be generated by likely mode of transport ( in KG ), and finally how much will the item weigh if you had to make 1,000 of your finished product ( in KG ). When you are finally done with all of that you multiply the amount of KM the item is traveling, how much CO2 will be generated by likely mode of transportation, and how much it will weigh if you made 1,000 of you r finished product. The way I learned about carbon footprints was by doing a google document on it. So all in all learning about carbon footprints was hard but a fun learning...