We closed the loop today on the researching and presenting information on the raw materials needed, and ensuing impacts from the production of certain common, everyday items. Even something as seemingly simple as a pencil needs various raw materials, extracted from all over, for its creation. And then there’s the production of the cell phone … Continued
Today we learned about the life cycle of a pair of jeans, from extracting the raw materials from the earth, to the processing or combining of those materials to form a final product that gets transported all over the world for us to buy. We examined just how international we are in terms of dress, … Continued
We spent more time learning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, answering such questions as, “Where is it?”, “What is it?”, “When did it come about? Why?”, “Who is impacted?”, and finished the class with perhaps the most important question, “What, if anything, can we do about it?”
This week, we looked at plastic – how it is in so many day-to-day items, how many of these items we’ve used even before getting to school in the morning, and how hard it is to imagine life without this material. We learned that most of all of the plastic that has ever been made … Continued
