This Month In Science #10

This picture was 1 of our ideas drawn out on paper, we ended up picking this idea for our final add. We are going to connect the two gears in our final add.

This week in science David was absent all week. We did some projects and activities with Jamie. We tested 3 different bottles of water to see which one was the cleanest. My group also worked some more on our transportation projects. The transportation and energy groups teamed up and did some experiments to see which objects used the most electricity. We also created surveys and went out to the streets to ask people to answer them for us. A few people from the human impacts institute came to visit us and help us create ideas for what we were going to put on our posters and t-shirts. We started our project, human impact add campaigns. We had to create adds, posters about our group, which was transportation. We had multiple ideas drafted but we decided to go with a particular idea because it would be the easiest to put on a t-shirt. We now are going to put our drawings on t-shirts.

This week I learned many different things. Like for one thing blow dryers use a lot of power when plugged in and on. I also learned that our school water was the dirtiest water from all three different types of water Jamie brought to school. I also learned that even when objects aren't in use or on, or plugged in they still use power. I also learned that people who work for the trains, i think their called commissioners are doing more work than ever before. Their trying to make the city a more comfortable and safe place. Where there could be less traffic and more places for people to hang out at. I learned that making an add campaign is really hard especially if your working in a group, because so many people have different ideas and different opinions on what we should and and how we should do it. So coming up with a final add was hard and a long process.

Surprise: Big Old New York City Is the Cutting Edge for Urban Transportation and a Vision for a Sustainable Future

In this article, the main point was that New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, has changed New York City for the better. Shes made NYC streets a safer place to be, shes turned traffic streets into public hang outs. She has also secured huge grants from the Feds to improve the bus services. In this article they didn't use any graphs or pictures to support their evidence. The author argued that in the last 3 years Janette has helped New York City become a better city than any other transportation commissioner.

I liked this article because it showed me who is changing New York City around, its keeping me posted. I also liked that this article wasn't long! I agreed with this article that Janette is helping New York City because of all the things shes done so far to help the community and the traffic.