Sal+S.

This is Sal Sabila. I love Michael Jackson. I don't eat chocolate (don't know why). Feel free to edit anything on my page. I would appreciate if you kindly high lite the parts that you edit. If you are reading this, consider yourself as one of the luckiest ones right now, because you are visiting the page of the coolest grade 9 student @ MPC. =P [|Science week =D]

//We have been working hard for almost last 6 weeks to create a change in our community. We tried our best to put an impact on people's mind about helping our environment. Me and my partner decided to spread awareness about using water. We made a facebook page and a twitter account. We answered a lot of questions through our twitter account and facebook page. We just didn't stop there. We posted photos of attractive brochures, articles and posters.//

//** Thanks so much to STEPWISE for activating our MPC Youth Power! **//
= = =//** We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~ Thomas Fuller **//= =//** All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.~ Paul Hawken **//=

__Check this out:__ If you drink water then, you should be aware of its usage. Why? Because if you waste it, later on, you might need to die for it. How do I know? World Water Crisis: 1 out of 6 people lack safe drinking water, 2/3 of world population to suffer from water shortages by 2025- @http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/blog/content/world-water-crisis-facts-shortage-sanitation-safe-drinking



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__**Journal #3 (I wasn't 100% sure about what to write here. So....)**__ __**Journal # 1**__ __**Journal # 2**__
 * **X** || **Attitudes** || **Skills** || **Knowledge** ||
 * **Issues** || Everyone should care about water right now. It's scary the way we are wasting water and not caring about people who don't have fresh water to drink. 2/3 of our world is filled with water, but they are not clean. After doing all these research, I am surprised with all the facts. || For the skills, it was important to reach the people and collect information from them. Water footprint was calculation about our daily usage of water. || It's important to know about our water usage before we use it. We need to know how to properly use it. ||
 * **Research** || The researches are not only for giving us boring information. This research actually taught me a lot of things. || The skills that might be needed for research is being open minded and asking questions. There always should be trusted source where you can actually ask the questions that come to your mind. || We should have the knowledge about which sources to use. ||
 * **Actions** || It was amazing to reach number of people around the world and to hear their opinion about water. It helped us a lot for the primary research. || Skills for the action is mostly communication. We had to reach a lot of people. We had to tell the to share our posts. It was not a great success, but we tried our best. || For actions, it is important to have knowledge about how to get the attention of the audience. The posts or the brochures should be very eye-catching in order to be successful.Try to get feedback from your peers always to improve. ||
 * || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || There are a lot of issues in the world right now, which are being dealt with but, don't have any solution, such as; global warming. These issues might not be solved right away; but we have to try to solve them by taking time and working hard. || Skils are something that can never make you fall in trouble, they will have to help at any point of your life. If skills are trained properly they can help in any time. If we aware of our issues and try to get the skills to solve them, it would be very helpful. || Before resolving any issue, we must need to have some back-ground information about the topic or knowledge. We need to know all the information to pressent any solution to the issue. ||
 * __**Research**__ || Research can be done in many ways. It can be done through primary or secondary sources. Again, if you doing any research and if it was last updated a long time ago, then the information might not be valid. So, it is important to use information that are recently updated. || For researching, the skills you might need are: being able to identify if the information are reliable or not, also the sources need to be cited properly. It's a vary important skill to know how to cite sources for different subjects (such as; literature: MLA, Science: APA etc.) || Without knowledge, we won't be able to do anything. To earn this knowledge we have to do research. Research helps us to learn things more easily and in a practical way. To do this research, we have to get information from both primary and secondary sources.It is not enough just to find the information, we also have to be concerned about if the information is biased or unbiased. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || If we take any action, it should be meaningful or something that puts a positive impact. Also, when we take action, we have to make sure that other people around us are being inspired or at least they are having a positive impact on themselves. || In this case, it is very important to send the information to correct or appropriate audience. It should be done in an effective and clear way. We have to use proper media form to approach or send our information. (e.g. we don't want to send information to someone who is 82 years old through twitter. We have to send them information through talking.) ||= We all should first find out what has already been done, what need to be done and how might it be done. If people did it before, try to present the information in a different and interesting way. Find out what has been successful and what has not been successful, when people did it before. ||


 * || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || My attitude towards the water footprint changed so much after doing all these researches.Water is one of the most important things in our life. Without water, we cannot live. But, we are all wasting them in such a way which makes it difficult for some people to have water for their lives. || I think we need to be educated about how to use water without wasting it. Find ways to spread them around. To save water, the skills that can be used are trying to wash dishes without turning the tap on, brushing teeth with out turning the tap on or take less time in shower and many others. || Knowledge does not hurt.From the surveys, it was clear that people don't really care about their water footprint or the water usage of their daily lives. We might be living in a developed country, but that does not mean that we have the right to waste water as much as we want to. ||
 * __**Research**__ || For the secondary research, I was surprised to find all the information about using water. (e.g.the production of 1 kg beef takes 15000 litres of water) I got a lot of fascinated information from the researches that I've done for the water footprint. || To do the primary research, it was important to convince people to do the survey, The skills that were needed to do the primary research were convincing people, sharing quotes, images =, facts and others. || It was important to share findings in the social medias. So, we could make people more knowledgeable. We can get knowledge from researching mostly. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || A facebook page and a twitter account was made for people to be able to get information about water. We were trying our best to encourage people to do something to save water. We shared a lot of amazing posters, facts and images. || The skills that were used for the action were engaging audience, trying to get people to like our facebook page, follow us and do the survey through the convincing power. ||= It was very important to get people's attention through funny images, but important messages. We had to ensure that people who don;t really care about footprint get at least one fact and do something about it. We had to make our own slogans about water and tried to spread them through the social medias. ||

- Our world is currently not an ideal place to live. As an environemntal activist, global warming is the biggest issue that concerns me. Global warming is making the countries warmer than they should be. It is happening mostly for the gas house effect. It matters to me because as a member of the earth we have to make sure that our next generation get a good impression about our world. We should plant trees so, there would be oxygen for us to breath in.
 * __=>Imagine you are an environmental activist. What is an environmental issue that concerns you? Why does it matter to you? What can be done about it?__**