SORTING+OUT

1 What information is relevant to our questions? 2 What parts support out answers? 3 How does it relate to what else we know? 4 What parts do not support our answers? 5 Does it raise new questions? 6 What are we feeling about our inquiry at this phase? 7 How have our feelings changed since the beginning of our research?
 * SORTING OUT **// (Week 3) 9th May //

Susana Cordoba, 10 may 2011

1 What information is relevant to our questions?

Impact on the environment

In the United States, fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), materials that come from plants, and municipal and industrial wastes are used to generate most of the electricity we use; about 71% in 2009. Emissions that result from the combustion of these fuels include:
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Ways of wasting energy at school


 * Computer
 * lights
 * Freezer
 * Fans
 * Scanner
 * Kettle

How does the community acts towards this problem

At school some of the people turn off the computer, fans, scanner and lights. Some people disconnect the computer. Some of the people do not iron their clothes.

Susana Cordoba 10 may /2011 3 How does it relate to what else we know?


 * This information is related to the first line of inquiry. It relates because this information is the impact of the waste of energy. **


 * This information is related with the 2nd line of inquiry. It relates because are some of the objects we use at school that wastes energy. **


 * This information is related with the 3rd line of inquiry and the (perspective) concept. It relates with the 3rd line of inquiry because this is how **
 * community acts. It relates with the perspective because are the actions that people do. **

10/05/2011

How does the community acts towards this problem
The link to this video will show you how does the people & kids act toward this. [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-g73ty9v04]

4 What parts do not support our answers? Some of the interviews do not support our answers because they say that it has a good impact on the environment, because it said that they waste energy.

 5 Does it raise new questions?

Mariantonia Cadena, Susana Cordoba, Esteban Carvajal, Isabella Vallejo

5) yes we need to know new things: How to save energy?  Why some countries waste more energy than others?

Do the countries that produce most energy are the ones that have most resources?

Isabella Vallejo, 10 may 2011

6. I feel good because i have learn alot more about my topic, it has me make me take into acount things i never tought before and things that i can aply at home.

7. At the beggining i tought it would be lots of work but now that we are working as a group things are easier. I feel very happy because of the group i shoose, i made a good election, ecxept that sometimes I get estress.

Mariantonia Cadena 10 may 2011

6) I think that is quite good the info that we have been recollecting and all the reflection we have done to all the interviews we have done in all the week and the past week.

7) I have been feeling very frustrated but relaxed because I think we have done all good and we have make all the thing we are suppose to do

Susana Cordoba, 10 may 2011

==== 7) At the beginning of the exhibition I thought it would be very difficult. Now I know that there is a lot of work to do, but we divide the work and it make it much easier and faster to investigate. I think that we work very well as a group, we divide the work and until now we've been working very good. ====