it’s so pretty!
the financial side of our protect has not yet been completed and the pricing of ingredients is only half completed.
the final product tastes great, the middle section could use some more tweaking as it deflated during the storage proses, but the project has overall been an amazing succes.
i would say that i pulled my own weight and completed my job within the group.
we have altered the recipe to contain a more specific amount of sugar rather than the maximum. the only other setback has been on deciding the packaging.
the survey has been useful in getting the opinions of our customers, but confusing because of the varied opinions of the masses.
we have been finding the prices of ingredients to scale the products price, however it is quite hard to find the exact measurements per package.
we are making a small, square chocolate cake with meringue in the middle and chocolate coating with hundreds and thousands all around it, the goal audience is Australians who cannot get snack food from Australia and want nostalgia and children who can trick their parents into buying it.
the data collection has been done through a survey of students and teachers, the rest of the alterations and data will be from after we have made the product and then began tweaking the flavor.
i am making the recipe and list the ingredients, this is to make sure that we are using the right amounts of materials to increase profit margins.
getting the stuff to begin cooking is the current goal so that we can begin to cook and test the recipe to improve the product.
This part took place mainly on the first and second day with me creating preliminary sketches (that I forgot to photograph) and talking to other people about there project ideas. This ended with me realizing that most people where going for potential to kinetic energy with gravity and rubber bands, i wanted to do something similar but with water so i started to draw up plans for a water wheel.
on the second day i tweaked those plans to include some small funnels to keep the water inline with the water wheel, this would hopefully help to get more wight onto the turbines and help it to generate more power.
over the course of the project the plan stayed the same and i ended up with an end result that looked approximately like what i had initially planed.
I spent the 2 weeks of the project working on creating a water wheel that could produce power for external use, over the projects I worked mainly on creating the components and making the stand for the display.
Success criteria:
Generates power for an led
Was the design renewable
I was unable to fulfill the first Success criteria as the amount of weight from the water I would need was far more then what the sails could withstand so it would have been impossible to generate any electricity from that design.
The second Success criteria was a success and I was able to create a design that didn’t need to much water (because it didn’t matter how much I used)
Day 1: deciding on what type of project i would be making and then working to create the first plan for the project and refine it till day 2 along with starting on tinker cad.
Day 2: finish planning and give it to Mr. Michie for approval. Finishing the first set of 3d printed parts and then test them for any problems that could pose a problem with the water wheel’s efficiency
Day 3: make second form of the 3d printing and then increasing the size to support the amount of water we need to transport between the two reservoirs.
Day 4: test the finished product and make sure that it works. For the show in on the final day
The final day was composed of disappointment and sadness after realizing that the water wheel would need much more water for it to actually turn and generate electricity for the light to work
over the span of this project we are creating machines to transfer energy between two different forms, we must also be able to explain how the energy transfer occurred and show that the energy reached a certain point to call our project a succes. we need to make the project with minimal materials so that would rule out most complex builds, leading to me selecting these three as options for a build.
Ideas for the project
Water wheel
Pro’s: very renewable
easy to set up
Con’s: needs considerable amounts of water to function with the generators.
makes a small mess
crank light
Pro’s: infinitely renewable
east to set up
Con’s: Basic and common
Rubber band car
Pro’s: Fun and easy to use
Low material cost
Con’s: Difficult to construct properly
common
I am most proud of the time is spent on editing this video and working on the images.
Robin Wills
Humanities 8-1
Mrs. Long
June 2, 2022
Did you know that humans cut down approximately 1.5 acres of the rainforest every second (Harris)? There are also about 30 tons of trash on the tallest mountain on earth (Edmond), and each year more than 46,000 square kilometers of African savanna become desert due to human actions (Smith). These are missed opportunities to teach those around us the importance of ecosystems to our world’s health, so I am doing this essay on the 15th Sustainable Development Goal, “life on land” (“Goal 15”) because we all live above ground and should help to support our planet. Therefore, humanity should think of ways to rebuild damaged ecosystems like the rainforests, mountains, and savannas, some of our most massive habitats, home to an incredible number of unique and beautiful species of animals and plants.
(Butler)
Humanity’s damage to the rainforests is just a tragedy and a waste of such a beautiful environment filled with lovely animals. More than 20 percent of the rainforests that covered the Earth in 1970 are gone due to human intervention and deforestation: “Of particular concern are the 3.75 million hectares of loss that occurred within tropical primary rainforests” (Weisse and Goldman). The destruction of the rainforests has led most of the animal population to lose the trees that most of them relied on as a food source. People cut down the rainforests because of the land they can use for beef farming: “Overall, beef is responsible for 36% of all agriculture-linked forest replacement” (“Beef Production Drives Deforestation Five Times More Than Any Other Sector”). A straightforward solution is to simply stop eating as many beef products as possible and substitute more environmentally sustainable and healthy proteins like chicken or switch to vegetarianism. This would help to solve this problem by lowering the demand for beef and making it less necessary to graze cows on the deforested land.
(“Garbage on the Everest”)
Humans have negatively influenced almost every environment on Earth in some form, not just the deforestation of the rainforests but also the pollution of the mountains. We have turned some of our planet’s most outstanding landmarks into a way to get money, like how we have turned one of the most significant accomplishments of human history, climbing the tallest mountain Everest, into a holiday adventure and trash dump for the rich: “It’s estimated there are about 30 tons of trash left on the mountain. Every year, more and more climbers attempt the mountain – each paying around $30,000 to do so.” (Edmond) This is a problem for the animals of Everest because the animals are dealing with the same problem as the fish in the ocean: they end up accidentally eating the trash and getting sick. One option to slow down the growth of “the world’s highest garbage dump” (“Tallest Peak or Tallest Pigsty: Nepal Struggles With Trash on Everest”) would be to put part of the $30,000 cost of climbing into a fund to clean up the mountain.
(Morenovel)
Furthermore, humans are also destroying the savannas of Africa by turning them into deserts through over-grazing, causing the indigenous animals that rely on the grasslands to starve or move on, thus forcing the predators to do the same, leading to the area becoming barren and empty. “Desertification affects about 46 percent of Africa. Yet, the process of reversing its effects is slow going, usually taking a decade to see major improvements.” (Philipp) There have been attempts to fix the problems that our agricultural activity has caused through the over-grazing of the land with cows, sheep, goats, and camels. But it is quite slow to manually re-introduce plant life to an area and it will need a lot more improvement and work. A good solution for this problem would be to increase the funding for the pre-existing plan, “the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel initiative” (“Action Against Desertification”) for the savannas of Africa.
There is no reason why people haven’t tried to solve these problems, other than that they don’t know enough about them or don’t care enough to support them economically. Rainforests, mountains and savannas, some of the most widespread habitats on earth, are home to an incredible number of unique and beautiful species of animals and plants. All of this shows how negatively humans have affected the world and how we could try to fix it.
Works Cited
“Action Against Desertification.” FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2022, https://www.fao.org/in-action/action-against-desertification/overview/great-green-wall/en/. Accessed 2 June 2022.
“Beef Production Drives Deforestation Five Times More than Any Other Sector.” Eurogroup for Animals, 22 Apr. 2021, https://www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/beef-production-drives-deforestation-five-times-more-any-other-sector/. Accessed 2 June 2022.
Butler, Rhett A. “Drone Photo of Deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon for Soybeans.” Mongabay, 23 Nov. 2021, https://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html. Accessed 2 June 2022.
Edmond, Charlotte. “World’s Highest Spring Clean Operation in Everest Turned up 10 Tonnes of Trash.” WEForum, World Economic Forum, 31 Oct. 2019, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/10-tonnes-of-trash-was-taken-down-everest-this-is-what-s-happened-to-it/. Accessed 2 June 2022.
“Goal 15.” Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Sustainable Development, United Nations, Dec. 2015, https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal15. Accessed 2 June 2022.
Harris, Tom. “How Rainforests Work.” HowStuffWorks Science, 4 Nov. 2021, https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/issues/rainforest.htm. Accessed 2 June 2022.
“Garbage on the Everest.” Indiatvnews, 16 June 2019, https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world-progress-garbage-sorting-mount-everest-527563. Accessed 2 June 2022.
Morenovel. “Landscape of Desert and Grassland, Namibia.” Shutterstock, https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/landscape-desert-grassland-namibia-229128925. Accessed 2 June 2022.
Philipp, Jennifer. “The Effects of Desertification in Africa.” The Borgen Project, 21 Apr. 2020, https://borgenproject.org/desertification-in-africa/. Accessed 2 June 2022.
Smith, Brett. “Dangers to the Savanna Ecosystem.” Sciencing, 2 March 2019, https://sciencing.com/dangers-savanna-ecosystem-18220.html. Accessed 2 June 2022.
“Tallest Peak or Tallest Pigsty: Nepal Struggles with Trash on Everest.” Newsela.com, 3 May 2014, https://newsela.com/read/everest-litterbugs/id/2947/. Accessed 2 June 2022.
Weisse, Mikaela, and Liz Goldman. “Forest Loss Remained Stubbornly High in 2021.” Global Forest Watch, 28 April 2022, https://www.globalforestwatch.org/blog/data-and-research/global-tree-cover-loss-data-2021/. Accessed 2 June 2022.
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