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​Emmy Onorato February 2010 8-1 Online Homework Paper Waste __Introduction__ ** Maniciple Solid Waste is waste produced by house holds and buisinesses. Since Country Day is a buisiness then it produces maniciple solid waste. Teachers and students at Charlotte Country Day waste paper every day. One of the ways that the school could reduce the amount of paper waste is to require their teacher to give homework online. Our hypothisis states that if teachers give their homework out online then the amount of paper wasted at country day will be reduced. Did you know that one tree is 805 pounds of paper? Did you know 100 sheets of paper is one pound? Did you know one tree produces 80,500 sheets of paper, and 800 pieces of paper per pound? If Charlotte Country Day Middle School use online only homework we could save a lot of paper and many trees.
 * Municipal Solid Waste

**__ Materials __** -Computer -paper -Mr. Keilty -Ms. Biggers -Mr. Rinhert -Mrs. Rohr

**__Procedure:__** 1. Organize groups and assign the groups to a grade level(5th) Gordon and Thomas, Mrs. Rohr, (6th) Clark and Will, Mrs. Biggers, (7th) Larson and Sumner, Mr. Rinehart, (8th) Emmy and William, Mr. Keilty) 2. Go to teacher. 3. Ask him to use online homework for one week . 4. Ask him how much paper is used in his homework for 5 days . 5. Multiply the number of papers used by the days and the number of students in his classes. 6. Use paper only homework for first week (5 days) Feb 8-12 7. In second week, use online only homework and turn in homework over email. Feb 22-26 8. Record data for each week. 9. Complete data.​ 10. Weigh paper 11 . Calculate total wieght of paper use.

Groups**:** Control Group: Week with homework in paper Experimental Group: Week with online homework​ Variables: Independent Variable: Use of bucsnet and online for homework Dependent Variable: Amount of paper trash

__**Data**__: Amount of Sudents: 62 students Amount of paper used in week one: 73 printed sheets of paper Amount of paper used in week two:

Total saved paper: 600 Average: 150
 * __ Data Tables: __**
 * week with paper hw || week with online hw ||
 * Ms. Biggers || 90 || 0 ||
 * Mrs. Rohr || 310 || 0 ||
 * Mr. Keilty || 73 || 0 ||
 * Mr. Rinehart127 || 0 ||

**Safety Guidelines:** common sense ** Safety Concerns: ** none

__** . This saved paper waste. This graph shows that every teacher used online only the second week and saved a huge amount of paper. This graph shows how Mrs. Rohr, Ms. Biggers, Mr. Rinehart, and Mr. Keilty saved paper by putting their homework online instead of handing it out. It proves that if Charlotte Country Day middle school can use online homework we can save trees and paper reducing the amount of Municiple Solid Waste that we make. Our hypothesis was correct because the teachers used paper in the first week and didn't use paper homework in the second week. This supported our hypothesis because it saved paper and it would make our amount of MSW at Charlotte Country Day Middle School go down. One error in our experiment was that Mr. Garret did not agree to our project. Another error was communication between our group and Mr. Rinehart. A third error is a human error that is the lenghth of time of collecting data. If Country Day has one class in every grade that has online only homework once a week every month we would save a lot of MSW from our school and a lot of trees. __** Voice Thread: **__ [] __** Bibliography **__ : "HowStuffWorks "How many sheets of paper can be produced from a single tree?""//HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!// Web. 26 Feb. 2010. <[]>.
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