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.