Mira's Science Blogs

About the Project Every year, adventure hosts a charity fair, in which the students select a charity and then sell products that relate to the cause and the charity. During this project, there are many assignments that are required for each class. For example, in history, we did research on our charity and in electives, we created our how-to. Each group presents and the top group from each class then continues to finals, where they present to Student Council, and the best presentation is chosen. Summary: During the charity fair pro ject, I learned a lot about my charity and the problem that it is attempting to address. Our charity was Water For South Sudan .  The problem that this charity is trying to address is that there are so many people in South Sudan that do not have access to clean and drinkable water. This is also a problem because, in South Sudan, millions of women and children walk for up to eight hours a day to collect water from harsh and unsafe environment...

Ecotourism - Environmental and Wildlife Impacts Do you ever wonder what your impact on the environment is? Ecotourism is hurting our national parks for four important reasons. When animals are near humans, we are destroying their natural wild behavior. Humans also have many impacts on the environment such as pollution, the use of unnatural resources, and other physical impacts. Ecotourism contributes to the destroying of natural habitats, areas, and landscapes in various ways. Human’s poor choices and interactions with wildlife can have some serious damage on the environment. Even though ecotourism may sound like a great idea, here are some reasons otherwise. When we humans are in national parks, we are physically destroying natural habitats and areas. “ But let’s not fail to consider the drawbacks as well. To make an area accessible to visitors, infrastructure has to be built and transportation has to be arranged. The revenue generated for local economies is often...

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ej0tesssrQE0g2MKRgE7ObYVQ09ClgUDs7BYnkeHHUhXSF2s3x6wrJCftBK-XRsTeVqhEYcVzWu4AIGEyQtLPK9ZJrrGHp8nZ3q-Gm8R37uXmrRB8Th7GyRQ8Uqghh-EIZZFZTqsgMYx/s1600/ecotourism2.jpg Summary: Do you ever wonder if you have a big impact on the environment? Many people take the environment and wildlife for granted without even thinking of the impacts and effects that we as humans are making on it. Ecotourism is tourism in natural areas that are protected. An example of ecotourism is in national parks. A big debate on ecotourism is whether it is helping or hurting our environment.  There are many pros and cons to ecotourism. Ecotourism can help tourists to learn more about the world we live in, inspiring tourists to become more sustainable.  For example,  founder and president of the nonprofit Manta Pacific Research Foundation Keller Laros is studying Hawaii's ray population and attempting to determine how ecotou...

Summary: A carbon footprint is important so that we know the total greenhouse gas emissions of an item so that we can work on reducing that amount. Most of the greenhouse gases from transportation are CO2 emissions. The amount of CO2 emissions from transportation vary based on the mode of transportation and the distance that was traveled.  This week, I learned how to calculate the carbon footprint of a product by figuring out the manufactured location, the store where the materials were bought, and the mileage in between. We used this information to calculate our carbon footprint caused by the travel of our materials. We assumed that the objects that traveled within the same continent traveled by train, if they are on different continents, they traveled by airplane, if they are within the same country, they travel by truck, and travel between the retailer and the school will be by car. Once we figured out the mileage between the two destinations, we multiplied by a...