Main part of the IDAF project
"Energy 100 years ago, today, in 100 years"
My project will be about nuclear energy. I find it a really interesting topic and I know different things to write and research about it.
Below is my concept draft for the project - own thoughts of how I could start and what I could write about it.
100 years ago:
writing and researching about Marie Curie, polonian physician who discovered radioactivity and radiochemistry
Today:
- how is nuclear energy used today?
- is it more dangerous or safer than 100 years ago?
- Accident of Tchernobyl and atombombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- "Halbwertszeit" and the C14-method (S. 144 mathbook)
- Nuclear energy in our everyday life especially in movies/hollywood productions
In 100 years:
evtl. a new form of calculating the radioactivity - too little timespan for such a long timedurance - thoughts are working
Required calculation:
I will do a calculation about the radioactive decay with the C14-method and a simple example ( e.g. radioactivity in the area of Tchernobyl or something else with high radioactivity)
Required pictures, drawing, graphics, photos:
I don't know how to solve this problem yet. Because I can't travel to Tchernobyl only to take pictures of nuclear power plants by myself. I'm too bad at drawing and so I think I have to take pictures from the internet. (licensefree pictures or whatelse)
shop judiciously, shop plasticfree
Names of collaboration team members:
Team from Wetzikon (Zurich): Leara & Jasmina
Team from Kerala (India):
Team from Borgo Valsugana (Italy):
Research Question:
- Is it possible to not use plastic for your shopping? (link to our post: )
- How much plastic does Indians, italians and Swiss people use for their shoppings?
- What alternatives are there?
Project description, methods/techniques, etc.
- Survey in India, Italy and Switzerland about
>Product: Evaluation
- Search allternatives, and how we can produce them.
>Product: produce some allternatives (one kid per family)
- All the families should collect their plastic waste over a certain period of time. Afterwards they should use our "shopping kid" over the same period of time.
> Comparison
Diverse, e.g. material needed, difficulties
- online plattform for surveys
- material (fabric, glasses, etc.)
- one difficulty could be, that we have to find some sponsors
- an other dfficulty could be the proper understanding
Goal/Result
We want to answer the following question: How much plastic is wastet for shoppings and how could we avert that?
and we want to show how much unnecesarry plastic we use for our purchases.