Sunday, July 18, 2010
Links
Powerpoint
http://www.box.net/shared/9zg4yu0uli
Group report
http://www.box.net/shared/vvyrytzq6b
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Rubbish Pics
http://www.box.net/shared/veteysa154
http://www.box.net/shared/8zmg8ax2ue
http://www.box.net/shared/nvq8cnpkzi
http://www.box.net/shared/1sobs5zxi1
http://www.box.net/shared/c1sy2ngvhz
Note: Pls look at the powerpoint first before the pictures. The powerpoint contain description
Group Report
This is the link for the group report.
http://www.box.net/shared/9h75aurkjo
Reflection 14
Reflection 13
Friday, May 28, 2010
Appeal
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
How to recycle in school
1) Reuse paper as raft paper.
2) Do not throw paper into the class bin and collect them in a stack then give it to the recycling centre. You may get some $$$.
3) Do not mix paper cups with waste food, segregate them into separate parts.
How to fold a packet drink.
1) Pull out the straw.
2) Pull out both ends and squash them flat.
Recycle
Recycling involves processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production. Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".
Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, wood, timber, cloths etc. Although similar in effect, the composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste – such as food or garden waste – is not typically considered recycling. Materials to be recycled are either brought to a collection center or picked up from the curbside, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials bound for manufacturing.
In a strict sense, recycling of a material would produce a fresh supply of the same material, for example used office paper to more office paper, or used foamed polystyrene to more polystyrene. However, this is often difficult or too expensive (compared with producing the same product from raw materials or other sources), so "recycling" of many products or materials involves their reuse in producing different materials instead. Another form of recycling is the salvage of certain materials from complex products, either due to their intrinsic value, or due to their hazardous nature.
Critics dispute the net economic and environmental benefits of recycling over its costs, and suggest that proponents of recycling often make matters worse and suffer from confirmation bias. Specifically, critics argue that the costs and energy used in collection and transportation detract from the costs and energy saved in the production process; also that the jobs produced by the recycling industry can be a poor trade for the jobs lost in logging, mining, and other industries associated with virgin production; and that materials such as paper pulp can only be recycled a few times before material degradation prevents further recycling. Proponents of recycling dispute each of these claims, and the validity of arguments from both sides has led to enduring controversy.
Our Progress
To wei xuan,
for the poster make sure you have the summarised data from the survey,
facts on recycling that we researched
and pictures of rubbish will be sent to you via email
Recyclemania
Friday, April 30, 2010
No Grace lesson
Good Luck to all
Monday, April 26, 2010
Week 12th Reflection
Monday, April 19, 2010
Reflection 12
Reflection 12
Wei Xuan and Jun Jie is incharge of making and designing the poster in an A4 then Mr Wong will help us enlarge into A3 size.
Wei yi is in charge of researching on how we are able to recycle Milo packets and what will happen to them after they are recycled.
I will be in charge of taking pictures and announce to the whole school in the morning assembly on what we are doing.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Week 11 reflection
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Reflection 11
Wei Xuan and Wei yi pls tell me what you have planned and done during the lesson on your 11th GRACE reflection
Reflection 11
Week 10 reflection.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Reflection 10
Weiyi (27)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Week 10 reflection
Wei Xuan will do the drawing and sketches for the posters as he is good in art
Wei Yi and i will be searching more about the facts of global warming.
Ju Jie will collate the survey results and put it into a graph and if possible, help Wei Xuan in his work
Our aim for these posters is to be done within 2 weeks done from now.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Reflection 10
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Reflection 9
Week 9 reflection
These are the assigned jobs for the project
Wei Xuan - In charge of collating the data for the survey for students and staff
Wei yi - In charge of searching on how to recycle.
Jun Jie and me - In charge of the conclusion, introduction, problems and pictures for the powerpoint.
Wei yi and Jun jie - Pls give Wei Xuan the results for the staff to wei xuan before the next Monday.
I wish everything i assigned will be done before the next lesson.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Week 8 reflection.
Changes about the survey
Monday, March 22, 2010
Week 8 Reflection
Attention!
Wei yI will find out ways on how to recycle
Jun Jie will take the pictures for the notice board
I will assists all of you in their jobs
Pls do all your assigned jobs and send it to me before the start of the next ipw lesson
Week 8 survey
Just a fact March 27 is EARTH DAY
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Survey for students
This is the survey questions for students
http://www.box.net/shared/n1hoe2teza
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Reflection 7
Week 7 reflection
Week 6 reflection
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wk 6; Reflection :D
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Grace survey questions
http://www.box.net/shared/0fz4otivj0
Week 6 reflection
Reflection 6
Monday, February 15, 2010
Reflection 5
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Week 4 reflection
This week we have finished our proposal for our plan. We intend to interview some of the staff to find out some things such as how many garbage bags the school uses each day, and how many dustbins there are in the whole school. We also need to find ideas of hwo to design posters to encourage the students to use the dustbins instead of just throwing it on the floor. I hope that this situation can be resolved soon.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
I researched on the topic of recycling and found out that Taiwan starts teaching children recycling since young. It's great seeing students getting involved in recycling at such an early age. It's even better seeing that their country's government is taking the lead and providing them with a system that allows and encourages them to recycle everything. It is even better seeing them being so enthusiastic and taking pride in their work. I think that we should also provide opportunities for all our students in Maris Stella and even island-wide, in Singapore to teach students about recycling and environmental issues. We should get everyone to start doing this greenjobs and make Singapore a clean and green country.
I've also researched world-wide famous for recycling country, Japan. They uses different signs to differentiate the material of the object to recycle and I think that this would make life easier for all of us. Maybe, we could also make bottles with different signs imprinted on them to make life easier for all of us and make us think that recycling is not a chore. Maybe, we could even make it a hobby for everyone!
Our group are still finding time to interview the school admin-workers as our schedule clash and we find it hard to find the school admin-workers as many of them are scattered all around the school. Also, some of them speaks different language from us and it is difficult to communicate with them. However, this would be settled soon :D
Weixuan #26.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Reflection 4
Monday, February 1, 2010
Week 4 reflection
Week 3 Reflection
This week lesson was rather interesting as Ms. Tan helped us in our project. As a result, we managed to do quite alot.
To improve Maris Stella's littering problem, I believe we should publicise about it such as We putting posters around the school or announcing about littering problems during assembly to decrease the workload of the cleaners.
I hope that this project will be a succcess as that would make Maris Stella cleaner and thus a more conducive environment to work in.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Week 3 reflection
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Week 3; Reflection
To improve Maris Stella's littering problem, I believe that students would be more aware about it if we publicise about it. We could have posters around the school. If possible, we may even announce about littering problems during assembly and tell students to be aware about the surrounding cleanliness. In this case, littering and rubish would decrease and this would save the effort and time for the school cleaners. (:
I would actually want the end product for the project to be litter-free in school. By which, we have to have posters. I would actually suggest making some recycling bin as it could help recycling problems in our school. In my opinion, our school is deprived of an important stuff, recycling. Recycling could help save the earth and the idea of teaching students about recycling starts when they are young. Although, now, we are not young already. But, I still think that the idea would still work.
Weixuan. (:
Reflection 3
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Guiding Questions
Monday, January 25, 2010
Week 2 Reflection
Therefore, we discussed again and came up with a new topic, Recycling in School. We found out that the school's recycling system is not really well-organised. Therefore, we wish to recycle the thrash that we can find commonly in the rubbish bins around us. We decided that we could make use of them and create wonderful products easily without wasting the natural resources around us.
I feel that the group is finally well co-ordinated now and can work together greatly and come up with a new relevant topic easily, though sometimes with positive arguments regarding the topic.
This project is going to be sticking with us till almost the end of Secondary 2 so I really hope my group can do well and come up with a wonderful product that could amuse everyone.
Weixuan, #26
Week 1 Reflection
Weixuan, #26
Week 2 reflection
Week 2 Reflection
Week 1 reflecction
I feel that there is not enough time to do what was required this lesson as it took time to go to the place and for the teacher to explain the lesson to us and by that time there was only about 10mins to discuss the roles of the group members
Friday, January 22, 2010
Reflection 2
My group has been trying to figure out on what topic we must do for the GRACE and our answers are always very vague. Some of them is vague to the point that we, ourselves does not understand what we are doing. This causes our ideas to go out of point and very messy. When we are out of track our teacher, Ms Tan Ching Sing will give us some brief ideas on what we could do on our project, but of course we cannot use what she had already said but that help us to get on the right track instead of saying wild ideas that will never success. As for now we are still thinking on the topic.
Lin Jun Jie 2B (25)
Reflection 1
Lin Jun Jie (25) 2B
This week my group has decided on the leader, and the group member who is in charge of the blog.We had decided on that Sherwin is the leader and Wei Xuan as the one who is in charge of the blog,when deciding on the roles, we had some quarrel as no one wants to be the leader because we are not confident enough to take care of the group, but in the end we decided on Sherwin as he is the most hardworking one in the group. We decided Wei Xuan as the blogger because he is the only one that knows most about blogging.