For Friday December 19th we finally finished both our final presentation slideshow and our skit for our commercial. We also decided that we will be video taping our video on Saturday December 21st. We feel very confident on our final presentation, but we are worried about how we have to finish the presentation in a 30 second range from 5 minutes. This might be the last blog before we present it.

For Friday December 13th we finished up our final presentation, and we also were discussing when we were going to do the video. We decided that we were going to do it on Saturday at the beginning of Winter break. We also have our script finished thanks to one of the guys in my group did it all on his own and we all thought it was a pretty good script. We all worked together to bring in our research to make one of the best slideshows EVER! Enjoy this happy looking dolphin because it like all the work we put into this project to save him.

For Friday December 6th we were discussing what we were going to do for our video we are going to do for the project, and we want it to be humorous so that more people will want to watch the video. Also we were going to make the video about how people shouldn't pollute in the water, or anywhere. We also added a slide to the final product about Aluminum and how it effects the wildlife, but we researched a lot and could not find one person who experimented on the effects of aluminum in the ocean so we don't know how it would effect the ocean and the wildlife that live in it.

For Friday November 22, we were updating our final presentation, we added more about how plastic can effect the ocean and we learned more about how plastic can affect the ocean wildlife. We also thought of a good hook for the presentation for people to be more interested in what we are talking about. We also learned about a guy in Chiba, Japan that has done a lot of research on our topic and we have found him to be a big help to our presentation and we will also try to put at the end how much help he was to us researching on our topic.

For Friday November 15, we were making our updated presentation for our Leadership class we made a little bit of a slideshow and we were also starting on our script for a video of us picking up trash and one of are group members thought it would be funny for the class to make us fight in the video because one of us threw a piece of trash in the ocean. We are also working a little bit on our final presentation for the end of the semester. We have worked hard the presentation because it will be our final grade of the year, so we are hoping that we are getting enough research to get us an A.

For Friday November 8th Houston and Hadon were in charge of researching information about Cigarettes, Plastic, and Food Wrappers and how they affected the Marine Wildlife. They would look up each thing and then I typed it on the Slide Show we are doing for our final presentation. We also made a pie chart of the top 10 most common trash found on the beach and we put them in order from the most common to least common (Shown below). We are also about to start to make our video of us picking up trash. We learned that sometimes when a plastic bag is in the Ocean it sometimes looks like a Jellyfish, a sea turtles favorite food. When the sea turtle eats it, it will choke and sometimes die.

For Friday 1st we discussed how people used to sink refrigerators, and washing machines to make artificial reefs, but what they didn't know when they were sinking those things is the the electrical wires and the chemicals inside the refrigerator went into the Ocean which made the water toxic and if any of the fish got that in there system they would get very ill, or even die. And then al this circles back around to us or the other fish in the food chain, we or the other fish end up eating the poisoned fish which ills them or kills us which isn't the best idea if you ask me. 

For Friday October 25th we are going to be researching on how much animals are harmed from water pollution. Water pollution can get into animals lungs and kill them because the water is toxic from the trash or any other thing that is in the water which poisons the animals lungs making it not able to breathe. If another animal eats the ones that are poisoned then the fish that ate it would get poisoned and die. The pollution in water is like the pollution in our air we need it and the fish need there water so just think about this we pollute what the fishes need, but they never do anything to us even though we are destroying there homes. 2/3 of the Marine Wildlife are endangered from water pollution. Also we poison the fish that are in the ocean with all the trash we throw in there and we end up eating some of those fish so everything that you are doing to the fish you are doing straight back to yourself. The toxins we release in the water poisons the algae which is at the beginning of the food chain and that affects all the way up to the shark or us whoever gets to it first and whoever does gets sick and maybe death. The picture below is a group of dead fish because of all the trash and toxins that are in the water that they live.

For Friday 17th we decided to research on we decided to research on plastic and how it effects the Earth when people decide to throw it on the ground. Now plastic isn't biodegradable because biodegradable means that a living organism eats it like bacteria or any other thing either its from a big animal or a micro organism. Nothing living eats plastic which means the plastic is going to be sitting there for years, but plastic is photodegradable which means the sun can make it shrivel up and break into a million pieces so it doesn't get rid of it entirely it is just laying around there for many years its just a lot smaller. If you throw plastic in the ocean and the animals eat it that means that anything that eats that will have that and eventually all the stuff comes straight back to us when we eat fish.

For Friday 11th we have decided that the Ocean Cleanup isn't necessarily easy, because of all the research we have to put into this to find out how much trash harms the aquatic environment and we are hoping that what we research and show our class will make a difference on how they think about throwing a small candy wrapper into the ocean. We are researching the effects the animals take when the water is polluted with trash, like if they water gets harder to swim in or if they die from the water having poisonous qualities in it from the trash sitting in it for to long. Last week we found that the water is turning mucky and in some areas it is unhealthy to swim in. In my opinion the Ocean won't be swimmable in about 10 years if we keep up with polluting the Ocean with trash, oil, and other things that can harm the water and everything else that lives in it. The picture below is a picture of an oil spill the orange looking color in the water is gallons of oil spilled in the water.

For Friday 4th we are going to continue our research for how much trash is found on the beach each year. We also want to see if there is anything we can do to try to stop people from polluting the beaches like showing them a what they are doing and what they beaches are going to look like if we continue to treat our beaches this way. We can start by putting posters up around the school so the students can learn that they shouldn't start polluting and if some of them already are then try to make them stop. We are going to make a little experiment by getting a cigarette butt and putting it in a cup of saltwater and see how long it takes for it to dissolve and see how bad it makes the water look.

Ocean Cleanup

For Friday 20th we were deciding on if we should do the 20% project on doing an Ocean Cleanup, or making a new sport. We decided on doing the Ocean Cleanup because to us that is going to make the biggest impact on people and we all really wanted to do it. We did research on what is the top 10 most common found trash on the beach. When then started to see how much each one of those pieces of trash harmed the environment and if it was biodegradable.

For Friday 27th we were doing a lot of research on how much the top 10 most common trash harmed the beach/ocean. We were seeing if it was decomposable and if it was how long does it take to decompose, or if it isn't decomposable then why it isn't. We were also trying to see how much of each piece of trash is found on the beach each year, if that information is available. We also started to try to find how long it took to dissolve if it actually got into the water and how much it harmed the water.