Wednesday, December 14, 2011




Francisco Matos: Our work is about recyclable art.
Daniela: Our work is aimed at sensitizing the school community to recycle as a way of getting funny and useful objects and helping the environment.
Vera: In this work we used cardboard boxes and cardboard as a way of drawing the attention of students to collaborate with us, calling the attention and asking them to put used water bottles, juice and cookie packets and in boxes placed in different places of the school.
Maria João: We also took advantage of the English recycling task, using the materials we had separated at home.
Sara Amaro: In the video we show how our work was prepared and the amount of recycled objects we created.
Francisco Matos: These are some examples of recycled art, where we can see than we can do many things with recycled materials.
Vera: Here are some examples of recycled art objects that we made using recycled materials.
Daniela: We hope you enjoyed our work.
Sara Amaro: And don’t forget: recycle and help the planet!

Daniela Ramalhete, Maria João, Francisco Matos, Vera Pereira, Sara Amaro

Monday, December 12, 2011

Group Work


Guide

WASTE OF WATER

Presentation of work (Sara)

Our work is about waste of water in our school. Our work is based on measuring the amount of water pour a tap on a bathroom, a survey conducted by us and the visit to the cistern 2 of our ETAR.

it's amazing the amount of water that a public building, in this case a school, spend! We made a survey a population of 43 students of our school! The school spend much water but it has some solutions, like we gonna see later.

By caretaker of our school we could visit cistern 2 of our ETAR. It’s amazing a complexity the ETAR! With this visit we discovery that our school have too a hole, one perforation to remove water in underground.

Now, we gonna see a short video made by us – this video is a presentation of our work. Later, rita will talk about our ETAR and Linda and Mafalda will talk about the results of surveys.

We hope you enjoy and make sensitized for this important issue of our day: save water!

ETAR (Rita)

There is a system of treatment and reuse of water f or units 1, 2, 3 and 4 constituted by a set of elements destined to collect water from rain and residual water (sinks and showers) wich uses two wells pumping, located between units 2 and 3, to lead the water for storage in cistern 1.
These waters
are conducted to a treatment station in order to be deposited in the cistern 2. From the cistern 2 these waters are conducted to the reuse system of water for toilets and urinals and to the firefighting system.

Surveys (Linda and Mafalda)

1. As we can see fifty-two percent of the interviewed say that they turn on the tap to the end, which is the equivalent of twenty-two people. Forty-eight percent say that they turn on the tap halfway, which is the equivalent of twenty-one people. We conclude that the majority of the interviewed are unaware of the water that is being wasted.
2. We found that fourteen percent of the interviewed play with water troughs in the summer, which is the equivalent of six people. Eighty-six percent do not play with water, equivalent of thirty-seven people. We can conclude that the majority of the interviewed are concerned with the, unnecessary, waste of water.
3. About the existence of the ETAR, fifty-one percent are aware of their existence (twenty two people). And twenty-one people are unaware of the existence of an ETAR at school, equals forty-nine percent of the interviewed.
4. Thirty-eight percent of the interviewed (sixteen people) said that they turned on the shower tap twice. Twenty-four percent (ten people) said that they turned on the tap four times in the shower.
5. Regarding the purchase of bottled water per week at school. Sixty-seven percent affirmed that they usually buy water (twenty-nine people) and sixty-seven percent affirmed that they do not buy it (twenty-nine people).

From the ones who answered that they usually buy water, sixty-six percent (nineteen people) buy every week a bottle of water, ten percent (three people) buy two bottles, seventeen percent (five people) buy three bottles, and seven percent (two people) buy four bottles.

To conclude we can say that there are still many people buying bottled water, when they can simply drink tap water, because it is perfectly safe.

English group work


This is video of work about garbage on the school floor.
Work by, Emanuel, Guilherme, João Costa and João Alexandre

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Anjali Appadurai, UN Climate Change Conference

"A number of protests are being held today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban to protest the failure of world leaders to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts. Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic-check from the stage - a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. "It always seems impossible until it's done. So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world, governments of the developed world: Deep cuts now. Get it done," Appadurai says.

 

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Getting to Zero

"The beginning of the end of AIDS starts with you"


"The beginning of the end of AIDS starts with you". This is the slogan of a campaign by ONE and (RED), two organizations fighting against AIDS. Some of their objectives are by 2015, to be able to provide treatment to the millions more who need it, drastically reduce new infections, and virtually end the transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies. 
2011 marks the 30th anniversary of AIDS. Today - December 1st - is World AIDS Day. 
The (2015)QUILT is a symbol of their struggle. It's a piece of digital artwork from people all over the world who are fighting for the first AIDS free generation in 30 years. You have the chance to create and share your own panel. join me, along with millions of ONE and (RED) supporters and create your own panel on the (2015)QUILT.
And, as a bonus, you get to download a Christmas song by the Killers for free.
Here are my panels: