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Introduction:

Hi there from Canada!

We are students in Mrs. Bowers' grade 9 geography class in Toronto, Canada. In the short video that we prepared for you, we are showing you our faces and our school. We are excited to be working with all of you for the next three months.

Let's save the planet together!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8uK3X8k7fU&feature=share

Contributions Challenges:

geography poster.pdf

Activity 2: Ways to Conserve Energy

• Invest in wind and solar energy.
• Turn of lights when not in use.
• Unplug electronics when not in use.
• Use hydro-electricity.
• Stop the burning of fossils fuels.
• Drive an electric car.
• Use LED light bulbs instead of more traditional and more harmful bulbs.
• Plant more trees.
• Take shorter showers.
• Recycle old and broken electronics.
• Turn off water when your not using it.
• Use rain -water to water plants.
• Add solar panels to roofs .
• Unplug your phone when it is at 100 percent.
• Turn off devices (computers, phones and etc) when not in use.
• Unplug loose plugs when they aren’t charging anything.
• Turn of heaters and air conditions when they are not in use.
• During the summer , open windows during the day instead of having the AC on the entire day.
• Use fresh air from outside as well as shade from trees instead of fans and air conditions.
• Create awareness to gain government funding
• Insulating the house to prevent heat from escaping

Activity 3:

Nestle: We found many false claims from Nestle such as stealing water from poor countries and selling illegal water that were prohibited to use. During the California drought, Nestle took water that could have been used. Nestle listed many claims on the page that are elaborated in detail about their goals and what they are trying to accomplish. Nestle focuses on waste reduction and clearing marine littering. They also made a claim that their Maggi noodles were safe but the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India banned their noodles, suggesting they were unsafe and hazardous for human consumption, causing Nestle to lose more than half a billion dollars. 

The H&M company has a recycling program that claims they have clothing bins in store where you can bring in old, stained, torn up clothes and they will turn them into new and send them to different parts of the world to be resold into a new piece of clothing. Some people have been saying that the old clothes don't actually end up being remade and resold. One of our students have tried to contact the company and ask if these rumors are true, but they deny any knowledge of this happening and then hung up.

We took the challenge of contacting Volkswagen and finding out their plans to produce a clean way of transportation. There was a Volkswagen scandal in 2015 about how they said a vehicle produced clean energy but, they produced false advertisement and created a device to cheat on the emission tests. Now they are in the middle of planning a clean way of transportation but are facing challenges given by the laws and keeping it affordable.

Geography ISU Part 1 2018 Peter Kuvshinov.pptx geo isu (gr. 9).pptx chris isu.pptx

Evaluation:

It was fun, as usual to work with other groups on making the world a better and more sustainable place for the future generations. It is fascinating to see how alike are young people from around the world in their opinions of the state of the Mother Earth.

On the other hand, it was very challenging to upload and collaborate within the circle. The wiki format is extremely limiting and hard to operate. Also, with the network restrictions in our school board we had a lot of trouble to connect with others via Skype.

For these reasons we will not be joining the GTP in the next year. Let us know if anything changes. It is too bad that we need to opt out due to technology restrictions.

Wishing you great summer and many successes in the future!

Feedback from:

The video was nice. Liked it. Excited to work with you Canadians! :)

Feedback from:

We're looking forward to seeing your answers on the questions from the challenges and the questions you made up for us!

with regards from the Netherlands.

Feedback from: 

The Netherlands, Hi there. We like to see your page. To contact eachother we created a Skype account by the name of: "The Netherlands: DeNieuwsteSchool"

 We hope that you can maybe add us so we can contact eachother.

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