Info about the Tree of live (onezoom.org)
>To the Tree of live (onezoom.org)
Quick facts about David Attenborough:
He is now 95 years old and still trys to help the world become a better place. First he was studying the natural sciences at the University of Cambridge, after that he became a producer at the BBC television. He once said: "I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.” His lifestyle was not like all others he was interested in the nature and the animals they live on mother earth. Naturalist and television personality David Attenborough is the undisputed father of the modern nature documentary.
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[Check out our audio-pitch:Audio_Pitch_Celia_Sophie.mp3 (1,91 mb)]
Cosmetics
The earliest documented origin of cosmetics is in ancient Egypt. Back then cosmetics were made from various mixtures from natural mineral pigments, various oils, water or animal fats. It was also common that both men and women used cosmetics – it was used to wade off evil spirits.
Fertilizers
Mineral fertilizers contain important plant nutrients such as:
- Nitrogen
- Phosphorus
- Potassium
But fertilizers containing minerals with phosphates are found to be toxic.
The toxic component is called apatite, which is extracted to manufacture fertilizers.
Apatite itself is not toxic but can become so if it is contaminated with cadmium, which, unfortunately, is frequent.
These toxins get washed away from the fields by rainwater and pollute rivers and streams.
[by Celia & Sophie]
Sway presentation about The Zinal Glacier<=
Info about the Zinalgletscher (in German)
Located in the canton of Valais, it covers an area of 13.36 km2 and its length is 7.29 km (data from 2010). In 1973, the glacier covered an area of 15.70 km2. The relative area change amounts to -14.90 %.
The Glacier of Zinal was in 2013 just under seven kilometres long, so since 1973 it has receded (sich zurückgzogen/geschmolzen) by a little more than half a kilometre.
For more data and statistics:
Factsheet Glacier de Zinal (glamos.ch)
List of glaciers in Switzerland (wikipedia.org)
Hey you!
We are pleased to present you our cooperation project by means of an audiovisual presentation. Do not hesitate to have a look at our heart project and contact us if you are interested in a cooperation. Just click on the following link:
https://vimeo.com/668639320
We hope that you will like our project.
Kind regards
Yara Zimmermann & Julie de Ruijter
Collaboration partners:
Team from Wetzikon (Zurich): Florian & Jasmin W.
Team from Izmir (Turkey): Arda, Reyda & Elif
Description of our project:
You can see a description in the following linked post. We already described it there. -->Project idea
Our planning steps:
Already done:
- Let our project idea approved by Mrs. E. Suter
- Do the audio visual presentation about our project
--> record the presentation
- Talk with our potential collaboration partners, if they want to do a collaboration with us
- We have sent the survey to the students in Izmir and Wetzikon and posted it in an other post
- Changed the link so it will work now hopefully
In progress:
- More research about planting trees
Our research question:
How much do students know about the environmental pollution?
What circumstances are necessary for a tree to grow big and old?
How many trees will we be able to plant?
Diverse:
We need a website or app to be able to create the survey.
Goal:
To become aware of how great the knowledge of students is about environmental pollution. We also want to plant some trees to make our own contribution to sustainability.
As part of our collaboration project, we created a short audio-visual presentation and postet it on vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/658573351
Concept for reducing plastic waste in other countries
Names of collaboration team members:
Team from Switzerland: Liranda & Angela
Team from Kosovo: relatives of Liranda
Team from Croatia: relatives of Angela
Our research question (wider question):
How much plastic waste is created during the day in different countries compared to Switzerland?
Refined questions:
- How much plastic items (bags, wrapping etc.) does grocery shopping accumulate?
- Is there awareness of plastic pollution and the impact it has on the environment?
- Does the government do enough to tackle plastic pollution?
- Is there any willingness to reduce plastic pollution themselves?
Our answers:
- Exchange experiences and opinions with the people living abroad
- Letting the people abroad take part in a survey as well as make a list with the wrapped food they bought during the day
- Eventually research on the internet
- For the comparison to Switzerland: Checking our own behavior in our everyday lives
Diverse:
In order to create our survey, we will either must set up a website or use an app/platform
Goal:
We want to find out, how much these people are informed about plastic waste and the environmental pollution in their country. Since we are going to make an effort to reduce our own plastic consumption, we want to try to encourage them to reduce theirs as well.
We created a audiovisual presentation of our Project for potential collaboration partners. Click on the following link to watch the video: ........... (the previous link wasn't the direct link to our vimeo-video, so we will make sure to post the correct link soon)
Team from Wetzikon: Winterhalter Simon, Sigg Nicola
Team from Dortmund (Germany): Johanna, Josef
Your Research Question (what?)
We want to find out how much sugar is consumed per day in Switzerland
and in the country of our collaboration partners.
We are also interested in how sugar is produced and transported
in our country.
How is sugar influencing our daily life?
- advantages, disavantages
- self-experiment (living without sugar)
- interview
Your Answer: Project description, methods/techniques, etc. (How?)
Self-Experiment with two people from Germany (Collaboration)
Product: A report about our self-experiment and experiences without sugar. And how sugar is produced and imported into our country.
Various, e.g. material needed, expert proposals, difficulties
- a daily diary for our experiences
- a good computer with good programs
Expert's Comment:
We are going to ask Indian doc. Dr. Med. Arno Roy and his colleague Dr. Med. Michael Inauen for their opinions.
Goals/Result
Publish an article on "don't waste my energy".