Hello! Our class did a webcast on earth day about different ways to help the environment. The web cast was twenty four hours long, but our class only did it from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm and a fourth grade class did it for half the time. The web cast started at eight o’ clock in April 21^st to eight o’ clock in the twenty second.

Me and my partner, 24 Sports Fan talked about Hybrid cars and how they help the environment. I learned a lot of things about them. Something cool I learned was that every time you stop the car the engine shuts off so they don’t waste energy! The radio is still playing but only the engine shuts down! I also learned that you could get up to 500 miles per tank of gas so you don’t waste a lot of gas. My car only gets up to about three hundre miles in a tank of gas. I also learned that there are a lot of different kinds of hybrid cars so you have a lot of choices. I got my research information from http://www.care2.com/channels/ecoinfo/hybrid and from http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Do-Hybrid-Cars-Help-the-Environment&id=1336189.

The problem we had is that the script was not long enough but we only had one and a half days to work on it so I was pretty proud of ourselves. I also think we talked in a monotone voice so we sounded like robots. But I think we did pretty good. Next time I’m going to work harder on the research and make the script longer and only take a little bit of time making it. If you want to help me or tell me something I should do better, why don’t you leave comments to my blog and tell me what I should do better so I can fix what I did wrong the first time, this way I look like I know what I am doing.

I really liked this web cast. I hope I do something like this again so I could blog about it!

Earth Day

Hi everyone! Did you do anything exciting in your class for Earth Day? In our class, we honored Earth Day by participating in a 24 hour earth cast! We each were put into groups of 2 or more and then we presented a certain topic about Earth Day. Saikiran and I worked together and we wrote and rehearsed the script about Why We Plant Gardens? Gardens help us live and they also supply us with fresh and healthy food. There are many advantages to having a garden. First, we can save lots of money and fuel when you plant a garden. You are saving fuel because you drive to the store to buy the products you need. Driving puts waste into the air which pollutes the earth.  But if you have a garden you’re not wasting fuel because you only have to step outside your house! Second, you are wasting money by buying the fruits, vegetable and flowers when you can just grow them in your garden, for free! Gardens are very important for our earth. Planting flowers and trees are very helpful to the environment because we can’t survive without them. That’s because we breathe in oxygen to live. We breathe out Carbon Dioxide. But trees and flowers do the opposite. They breathe in the Carbon Dioxide and let out oxygen. We’re all connected, one way or another. They help us live and we help them live. These are some of the things we talked about in our audio! In my opinion, I think that our presentation went well. Saikiran and I spoke fluently, made it sound funny and interesting. Since we had only one day of researching and rehearsing, the teachers were amazed at how well we presented our information! One thing I’m unsure about is if we made our message powerful. If it wasn’t, what I would do is ask my grandmother questions and add the answers in my script. I would ask my grandmother’s advice because she is a Master Gardener and she studied the importance of gardens. She is knowledgeable about global warming and how we should be planting gardens to help our planet recover. Of course, she told me that there are many other way to heal the environment such as conserving light and water, buying hybrid cars(like my grandparents did) and most importantly, the 3 R’s. The 3 R’s are Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. You probably recycle and reuse in school/home. You might not be able to reduce at school but hopefully you are able to do it at home. Remember, if we each plant a garden we will be saving our peers and Mother Earth. Gather your family, friends and neighbors with you, so together we can stop global warming!

             We were lucky to participate for the 2009 earth cast. Many people had different topics. They each explained very clearly what their topic was. Ever heard of the three R’s? Well, I am going to tell you what I did on the day of the earth cast.

             The three R’s are very important topics. Recycling, reusing, and reducing are the three R’s. Recycling is things that already have been used such as paper, bottles, and plastic. Reuse means to use something again. Reducing means to decrease what you use. Have you ever noticed that each of the words have RE in it? Well, re means to do something again. Doesn’t each of the words now make sense?

The three R’s can be very powerful. It can save the earth. You can save the earth by doing almost everything. Do you know what the three R's can do? It might not be a good thing but you can help by trying your best. It can also be a good thing too! It is better if we not go to the dark path. Try making sure to do a better job of keeping the earth. The three R’s are a job you can do and everyone can do it.

             What my opinion of the earth cast went pretty well. We only have a day and a half to do our research. We got down all of the information. I think that we could have used some more excitement. But other than that it went great. Hopefully I can do that again. I had really fun. I hope that we have taught a lot of people on what we did and how to save the earth.

Here are some ways you can help the earth. If you want to recycle, make sure to recycle the right items. If you don’t know what they are well you better keep on reading on. Make sure to recycle paper, bottles, cans, and plastic. Those items will be crushed and be made into something new. You can reduce what you use by using both sides of the paper. Also you can reduce on what you buy. Make sure to buy the amount of supplies that you are going to use. And you can reuse by give your old clothes to younger people, your relatives, and especially to charity.

If all this happens that the earth will be a better place to live on. I am so lucky that we did this earth cast. It will encourage everyone to recycle and do the same. It will encourage everyone to recycle and do the same. 

Earth Day is a very special day to help the environment, But how do we help the environment on Earth Day when we are polluting the Earth by using cars and electricity because we use non-reusable resources (resources that we can run out off) when you use these devices. There are also different ways we are polluting the Earth by littering and by not trying to walk to an easy destination instead of using a car. Well on Earth Day my class did a Radiocast. My group covered the topic of alternative energy. We learned that there were many ways we could help the earth. We could use hydrogen cars, solar power, wind power and Hydropower.

Hydrogen cars run on hydropower, they do not run on gas. This way there aren’t letting out emissions. Instead they let out water vapor which is not an emission.

Solar Panels are things you can install on your own house if you wanted to so there is one way that you can help the Earth. Anyway to use Solar Power you need Panels which go on your roof top which convert heat energy to electrical energy. When you use solar power this helps the Earth because you are not burning coal to power a turbine which lets off smoke.

Wind Power is made by a windmill which is something you will see in many cartoons when they show farms or a house in the middle of nowhere. Wind power is fairly simple the wind pushes a turbine which creates power which is then used to power the house. This helps the earth because like I said before it does not require the burning of coal.

 Hydropower is like Wind Power and is used to power cars that run on Hydrogen. The concept is just like wind power except that this time the water pushes the current. So the same as wind power the turbine is pushed which creates power to power the house.

I am very happy that my group said this on the 24 hr. radiocast that we did because I feel it is important for people to know this!!

             On earth day we honor the earth. But we are not doing that. We are hurting the earth. We are polluting the earth in a way you could not imagine. We are putting pollution in the air by burning tons and tons of fossil fuels. Also factories are dumping their trash into the oceans, rivers, and lakes. Every body is doing a lot of things that affect the earth or damaging the earth in some way. One day the earth is going to be so polluted or so, so dirty that nobody is going to be able to live on earth. If the earth get so polluted that you can not live on it, were are you going to live?     

            The whole class was split into groups to do a project. My group’s topic was recycling. We learned that the meaning of recycling means to treat or process (used or waste materials) to re- new so as suitable to use. When we were researching we learned a lot of information about recycling. One thing that we learned about recycling is what people can recycle. Some objects that you can recycle are all types of plastics, paper, batteries, glass, soda cans, and a lot more objects. You would put the objects in the blue trash can that has the recycling sign on it. In school we have a recycling program and we are saving so many trees by recycling.

            Everybody can help out in so many ways. Some ways that you all can help out is by asking your principle to start a recycling program in school. Another thing that you can do is just recycling at home. Plus you can tell your friends to recycle. Those things will make a big change and will help the earth a lot.

            The way I could change my message to make it more powerful I would add some more very important information. Also, I would add what would happen if you did not recycle. I would add the benefits of recycling. I think that would make my message more powerful because it would make the listeners more interested. What I want people to do know is to recycle a little more than they do now so they can help the earth.

            On earth day you learn a lot of way to help the earth. You should use the suggestion you get to save the earth and so you have a place to live later on in your live. Also you should think a little more about the earth and think a lot more about saving the earth. That is what me and my classmates learned when we presented our projects.

Our Earth is a beautiful place, and we should be treating it with kindness. But what are we doing for this beautiful planet? We’re polluting it, that’s what we are doing! One way we are polluting it is by burning coal for our source of energy, for electricity, and anything else we might need. But isn’t there a way for us to get energy without creating pollution for our home planet. The answer to that question is alternative energy. Alternative energy is different ways that you could create energy with. On Earth Day, my class participated in a global Earth cast. We had formed groups and chose topics, and my group’s topic was alternative energy. I think alternative energy is a great way to use energy in a different way and to it by not polluting the Earth. The three different kinds of alternative energy are solar power, wind power, and hydropower. These three types of alternative energy sources do not pollute the Earth at all. Well, by now you must be wondering what these words mean. Well, I’ll tell you.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              You ought to know by now that solar means sun. And to use the sun’s energy you must use a solar panel. The way it works is you put the solar panels on top of your house. When the solar panels are in place it will start consuming the sun’s energy, and bringing the energy into your house for your needs. Another great thing about solar power is that it never runs out because the sun is always there and that is you source of energy and you don’t have to buy light bulbs. By now you must know that solar power is when you absorb energy from the sun’s energy. Wind power is another kind of alternative energy. Wind power is obviously, the energy is made from wind. How you get energy from the wind power is by using special tools like wind turbines. In New York, we usually don’t use wind power, but wind power is often used on farms. This is another way to make electricity. Hydropower sounds pretty complicated right? Well, hydropower really only means water, and you can use water to make electricity too. The water, which the water flows in, determines how much energy you really get. See, if the current is going at a rapid speed, then it will carry a lot of energy with it. And if it is going slow then you won’t have as much energy. So hydropower is another way to use alternative energy! Earth Day is a day to celebrate our wonderful world and it truly is wonderful, but do we see that? I think this world is filled with pollution and a way you can stop this is by using alternative energy. If you want more tips about how to help our world then check out another one of my blog articles called “Tips to Save the Earth”.

Global Warming is getting worse and worse everyday. If we don't do anything about it, the world is going to sink. People are making  the world worse by not saving the energy, wasting the non-renewable sources. For example, oil is a non-renewable source. We use it to run a car, make plastic, and etc. Non-renewable source is a something that can't be reused again. So, if we use every single drop of it on or in the earth, there is not going to be any oil left. No car can run, and no plastics can be made. We have to stop this. There are many ways you can make a difference for the Earth. One way you can help is by following the 3 R’s. They are recycling, reduce, and reuse. 

Reducing is one of the 3RS. It means to save, using less amount, or decrease what you use. If you live near someone or near the school you shouldn’t ask your parents to drive you to school by a car. It pollutes the earth. And we need a daily exercise in your life. If you live close to someone, why don’t you carpool with them?  If you leave a room, you have to turn off the lights. These are some ideas you should try to make the difference.

Recycling is another one of the 3Rs. It means to process them so that they can be used again. You can recycle items like bottles, sheets of paper, cans, and candy wrappers, too. There are many recycling box in the school. If you want to throw out something that can be recycled, you have to throw out in a recycle box.Reusing is the last one of the 3Rs. It means to use it more than once. It helps the earth because you don’t waste any resource from the earth. Reusing items can save money, energy, and resources. Reusing resources is also a big use to the economy, by not using money to buy something that you already have and can be used. You can also participate in reusing plastic grocery bags for garbage bags instead of throwing them out.  Clothes are another object you can reuse. There are many household items you can reuse for arts and crafts projects.

These are some ideas you should try to save the earth. Remember, we can all make difference.