Shravana+G

SHRAVANA!!!!!

If I was an environmental activist, the environmental issue I would address is algae blooms affecting aquatic life and human life. It matters to me because I have seen aquatic life as well has people's life being effected by this problem. Fishermen can't fish which means they can't have food or money to survive. The aquatic life would die and a whole new problem gets created. I would create a way to prevent algae blooms from happening by raising awareness about it and making people address this problem and find simple solutions to their bad habits. For example, not dumping waste into waters.



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 * x || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || The issue I am the most concerned about is air contamination. This is a very serious issue because no living thing can survive without air and if the air is contaminated so will be all living things. I believe it is a serious issue and we need to take an action. However, air pollution can't be ended but can be reduced and I feel me alone won't make the big impact that is needed. || The skills that are needed are being able to identify which issues are more important and how to be able to tell if air pollution increases and decreases over time. || The things I need to know about the issue are what is emitted into the environment, how it is emitted into the environment, which year was the most pollution released, what environmental impacts it has on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, does it effect any food webs and how it impacts humans. ||
 * __**Research**__ || I am pleased with the research we are doing. I am able to find many issues dealing with air pollution such as what emits it, how it effects the environment, and how it effects us. What is concerning me is that I can't seem to find many articles that catch my attention and keep me fascinated. Therefore, my attitude towards the research is positive but still wanting more to learn and more to develop about the the issue. || There are multiple skills needed in research such as site reading, taking notes, giving credit, not plagiarizing, finding proper sites for information, using books too for information instead of the internet and being able to put everything together in an organized manner. || What I need to research is already written above but I need to keep in mind to not read only bias articles, look at a wide range of opinions, how people who already researched this topic have gotten their facts and how to put all the information together in order to understand the full concept of the issue. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || I want to start small and improve as I go. I know that one person won't make a huge difference but at least there is improvement. Making a difference isn't as easy as it looks unless you do the simple things my changing your habits. My goal is to first change my habits, then habits of people around me and finally companies that emit the highest amount of air pollution. I am very clear on what I will do and have all my ideas organized. || The skills needed to take an action are being able to talk to people, having the ability to influence what people think, being organized in terms of establishing an action and knowing what category of people I am targeting. ||= I need to see how people previously took action. What actions were successful and what were unsuccessful. Why were the call to action successful and what made it to do so. After researching, targeting specific types of people and trying different methods of putting out he message such as using media or even just getting people aware of problems. ||


 * x || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || My attitude towards the issues we are looking at in this project is positive and anxious. This is because I want to learn more about them however, anxious because I am eager o learn. Some examples of issues are air pollution, recycling, consumerism and composing. || Skills needed to be able to understand the issues are able to recognize what issue is more hazardous to the environment, finding the correct information and the most up to date one too. || You should have some background knowledge about the issues you are looking at. This is because you receive a better idea about the issue. ||
 * __**Research**__ || I have read so much about these issues but I feel like none of the "solutions" discovered by people haven't worked drastically. This upsets me and makes me want to find at least on permanent solution but I just don't know how. || Skills needed are being able to cite websites or other resources, being able to pick out the important facts, and just being able to research properly using websites such as Google. || You need to be able to differentiate between bias and non- bias articles. Do not plagiarize. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || I have a very positive attitude about the actions. I am eager to see my group's outcome as well as other groups'. I think using social media to put out an action is a great way to make people more aware of the circumstances. || It is important to be able to identify whom you are targeting as the audience. ||= We should look at what other people have done as an action to see what has worked and what has not. By knowing this information, we can improve our actions to make them more effective. ||

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 * x || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || I personally feel air pollution is a very important issue because it harms animals and the environment. It frustrates me how people have so many different ways to go places but yet, they chose cars because it is more "convenient". Transportation can impact air pollution in a sufficient amount. Even students who are the future generation to sustain this earth don't help reduce air pollution by changing simple habits. The message needed to be put out once more, but I was afraid that my perspective won't be heard my many. || The most important skill needed is being able to understand the issue and how to help solve or reduce it. This is very important because there is no use of knowledge if there is no real application. || Knowledge needed about air pollution is just some background information about it. Background information includes what it briefly is, how it occurs, disadvantages of the issue and steps that can be taken to help reduce the effects of the issue. ||
 * __**Research**__ || Doing secondary research about air pollution was quite simple because all the answers were in our fingertips in the matter of a few minutes. Primary research was a bit challenging due to few reasons. First, the survey questions needed to be specific and understandable. Also, we had trouble getting people to do our survey. I regret not trying to get people to do our survey. The more respondents, the more information we would have had. However, people who did do the survey did understand my perspective on this issue and some solutions they can help contribute to. I was glad this occurred. || Skills needed to do research were patience and being social. Patience was very important because the process of primary research took a long time due to the lack of respondents surveyed. Being social was a very valuable skill because in order for people to do the survey, people needed to know about it. In order to do so, we needed to talk and socialize with people, explain to them our research and allow them to ask about further questions. Soon, they would do the survey and we would be doing a good job. || Mainly, during the research, we must know our secondary research well before doing the primary research. Also, we need to know what we are focusing on to help solve this issue We picked using greener transportation. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || I believe my action could have been much better if more people saw it. A video was a great idea but in order for the message to go across, many people must see it. A disadvantage of using social media to convey a message is that you need friends or followers to be able to convey the message. My group used Twitter as one of the actions and we only have a couple of followers including me and my partner. Our YouTube video received about 12 views, I am disappointed because we could have supported our action more and advertise it so people saw it. || Skills needed to do the action are being social, thinking outside the box, patience and cleanliness. Being social is needed once again so people see our actions and support it. Thinking outside the box was important because looking at an action that has been done many times, is boring. If the action is boring, our job of conveying the message would not be done well. When I mean "cleanliness" I am talking about how well our action is put out. If the video was messy and poorly done, it would effect how people thought about it. Also, all of the action pieces should be linked together and well organised. This goes under the cleanliness skill. Finally, being patient was severely important because since our action is a video, it takes quite some time for people to see it. ||= Knowledge needed for the action were who our target audience were, how this action will be advertised and techniques to make our action look its best. After the research,we decided our target audience were students and teachers at our school. Our action was advertised through Twitter but it did not work out as planned. Next time I do an action, I will put a lot of time and effort into it. This is not only to get good grades but to also help our global community become more environmentally friend. My motto is to change the world little by little. ||