Teaser:
Plastic is very resistant and difficult to dispose of. Usually it takes 450 years until it has decomposed into partially toxic chemicals. These get into the water and so into the entire food chain. Every year, 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced.
For example, the fish eats the plastic and later we eat these fish.
Quiz question:
How many percent of the plastic produced each year ends up directly in the ocean?
Vocabulary:
toxic chemicals - giftige Chemikalien
decomposed - zersetzt
Team: Brian & Lara
At the moment we are still in the process of planning our project. In the future we will have contact with our collaboration partners via Zoom and email.
Our collaboration partners are two students from Kerala.
The next step will be a survey with our collaboration partners to get a first impression of the water scarcity in Kerala.
Vision:
We want to do a survey with students in Kerala. With the survey we want to find out how the water scarcity is in Kerala. We want to include the results in our project. After that we compare the water scarcity in Kerala with in the canton of Zurich.
We hope that our project will generate emotions in other students and that they will take the issue to heart.
Imagination:
We would be happy if the readers of our project are inspired to join an organisation that deals with the issue.
Concept for water scarcity:
Names of collaboration team members (Who?):
Team from canton of Zurich (Switzerland): Brian & Lara
Team from Kerala (India): 2 students from Kerala (India)
Our research questions:
- Where does the water in canton of Zurich and Kerala come from?
- Is there a water scarcity in canton of Zurich and Kerala? If so, how big?
- What are the main causes of water scarcity in canton of Zurich and Kerala?
- How do Kerala and canton of Zurich react when they run out of water?
- Are there any ideas for solutions to the water scarcity in Zurich and Kerala?
- Where is clean water available Kerala and canton of Zurich?
Where do we find answers to our questions?
- Exchange with the students from India
- Research in the internet
- Exchange with people from our surroundings
Our goal:
We want to show how water scarcity is in Kerala (India) and how it is in Switzerland? We also want to find out how the two villages react when they have no more water.
We want to show how topical the issue of water scarcity is and get other students thinking about it.
From Brian & Lara
The glaciers are melting because of global warming.
Global warming affects not only the glaciers but also us humans.
Why are glaciers and sea ice melting? (WWF)
Jasmins S. und Lara
We are producing more and more waste. A lot of it ends up in the oceans. The plants and animals in the sea are dying because of it.
It is important that we dispose of the waste correctly.
