Urban Village School Edition

The EOY  is our end of the year project is a project that we do school wide just like the charity fair. This project is planned by the teachers every year. This year we did it on Urban Villllages. An Urban Village is a village that has everything you need in one area. It's three components are Work, Live and Play. This end of the year project had three phases. Phase one was to choose a part of the school and redesign it. Then we made our company and mission state ment. Then we got paired with anouther group and they were our clients and we were theirs. So we presented our ideas to each other. Then we started to build each others ideas. We had two weeks to make a model of their redesigned space. Our last and second phase was where we thought about what our school would look like if we turned it into a urban village our school being work play and we did not need live because we are a school. Then we had to find how much our school would cost if we built and furnished it. We had a Budget of $15 million and we had to make a Blue Print to show our layout. Then we had to learn about Urban Villages that could be made in the near future and do they have the seven qualities of life. Then we had to figure out does our Urban Village have the seven qualities of life. Then we had to make a pitch to present our clients idea for redesigning their part of campus. Lastly in science we made a presentation of one clean/green city in the world and what action the took in from a list of 21 actions that make it a clean city. Then we had to find 3 action that our Urban Village was going to have and how we were going to make sure that it would do that.

Backward-looking

I did not know much about Urban villages before this project. In fact I didn't know a thing about them, I hadn't even heard of them. Basically all that I knew is that their were places that had almost everything you need in them. I actually went to an Urban Village almost every week. I went to a place on Cottle road. It had appartments, was right next to Kaiser Permanente, had millions of shops and restaurants and parking. 

Inward-Looking

I got most frustrated and feel most frustrated about the people in my group. Because one of them was always getting off task, one of the was doing things the team didn't want and doing things without asking, and the other person in my group got frustrated with whatever we did, deleted peoples work because he didn't like it, and had times where he didn't talk to the group because he was mad.

Outward-Looking

I don't think that we did our work like other groups because their were many groups who were doing the library and they made it just a giant rectangle like square and filled that when we did ours a "L" shape and made the walls, so that it was built up.

Forward-Looking

One think that I want to improve on is probably giving people in my group more to do so that they had more to do and did not get off task. Also I would probably communicate with my team members more. That would help me make sure that everything was going well and done so that I wouldn't have to get stressed out about it.

EOY Science

                Did you know that their is a set of actions that Cities can do to get to be a 5 star city, A green City? While it turns out their is. Their is a list of 21 actions cities can do or abide by that can make it a clean and energy efficient city. There are 7 parts to it each having three actions that a city can do or relate to. We choose 3 actions that our cities would do if we made a city. Action 14 means that the city passes a law that forces carmakers to create clean cars that don’t release much CO2. We will make sure we are in compliance with this accord by adding only dealerships that sell electrical cars and/or low emission cars like hybrids and by putting chargers for electrical cars at parking lots to encourage using those types of cars. Action 8 means putting recreational places, restaurants, apartments, & grocery stores closer so you can walk or bike to them. We will make sure we are in compliance with this accord by putting bike racks and places to put you bike while you are doing whatever you are doing so that you don’t have to find a place to put it and having bigger bike lanes and sidewalks so that it is safer so more people want to ride their bikes and walk. Action 3 means cutting back on greenhouse  gasses and reducing the chance of global warming. We will make sure we are in compliance with this accord by encouraging less food waste in the landfill so that they produce less methane and using electric trains.

S&EP
SP7

I used Evidence to support my claim when my group and I where choosing what we would do and choose to do in our green city. I used evidence to support my argument when I backed up my choice to action 14. I did this because I believe that it is better to stop the problem before it gets to my city so that we don't have to worry about it.

Acid Rain, Sediment, and Hunting.

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Are They Causing It?

Sediment is the dirt and rocks that are carved out of other rocks by erosion and weathering. Weathering and Erosion are when water and wind and well of course weather, where it hits the rocks and over time takes it away. Acid rain believe it or not is the rain we experience almost every week. Their is the is scale called the Ph scale. The Ph scale goes from 1-14 14 being the lowest amount of acid and 1 being the highest. Then their is a special tape that changes color when you put it in the water then you match the color on the tape to the color on the scale. Or every day rain is a 6 on the Ph scale. It is caused when the smoke from our cars and factories gets in the air and then it travels into the water in the air causing it to have chemicals in it.Then this makes the acid. Hunting by humans can cause problems in the ecosystem and the territory. Predators believe it or not change the geography of the place they live in. If their is nothing to hunt the Herbivores then they can eat to much of the resources in their area which can make it dry and bare. But if you add a predator in the mix they can control the amount of herbivores in the area which can give the area more resources. So hunting the predators can harm the whole ecosystem within.

          All three of these things can affect the fish and water life in rivers, lakes, ponds, and oceans near by. Sediment can make the water to warm, murky and muddy. Which causes the fish to not be able to lay eggs and hatch eggs and it can be to warm. The dark water makes it so water plants can't grow. Also it can cause the water life and bugs to suffocate because their is not enough oxygen in the water. Fish can live in a rage of 5-9 on the Ph scale so if their is to much or not enough acid in the water the fish can die off because of the chemicals or because their is not enough for the clean and healthy water that they need. When you hunt the predators in the area (Mountain Lions in this case) That can cause more erosion because of the roots of the plants being torn up can loosen dirt. Then their is logging especially clear cut logging which is when you cut down all the trees and their trunks in one area. This can cause sediment because the trees roots hold down and pact in the dirt but when they are gone the dirt is looser.

S&EP
SP3

We tested the sediment and acid rain levels in the water to see if they were too high or too low for the fish to live in. Then we used this data to try and figure out if the reason that the water was not good for the fish to survive in and off of that we thought about could it possibly be why the fish in the gray area where dieing.