8+Science+1+Will's+MSW+Project

Will Kendall 8 Science 1 February-March, 2010


 * __Intro:__**

At Charlotte Country Day, there is a lot of MSW. Part of this MSW is paper solid waste. This experiment is to try to reduce paper waste by using online homework. If we use online homework then the amount of MSW will be reduced.

__**Materials:**__ Safety Guidlines 1) Organize group 2) Assign two people to a teacher (Sumner and Larson to Mr. Rhinehart, Clark and Will to Ms. Biggers, William and Emmy to Mr. Keillty, and Gordon and Thomas to Mrs. Rohr) 3) Ask teacher's permission for experiment 4) Measure homework given out for a week (8th to the 12th) 5) Record data from first week 6) After the first week, change homework to only online without using any paper for a week (22nd to the 26th) 7) Record data from second week 8) Compare data and see if online is homework is easy for teacher and classes 9) Weigh paper and calculate total weight saved from online hw
 * Ms. Biggers, Mrs.Rohr, Mr.Rineart, Mr.Keilty
 * Scale
 * Dont Work Alone
 * Watch out for paper cuts
 * No horsing around
 * __Procedure__**
 * __Procedure__**

CG) Week with regular homework on paper EG) Week with online homework and no paper used

IV) Use of online homework DV) Amount of paper trash


 * __Data__**


 * || Week With Regular HW |||| Week With Online HW ||
 * Ms. Biggers || 90 || 0 ||  ||
 * Mrs. Rohr || 310 || 0 ||  ||
 * Mr. Keilty || 73 || 3 ||  ||
 * Mr. Rineart || 127 || 0 ||  ||


 * __Analysis__**



Our experiment showed some different trends. Each teacher, in the begining, used 600 total sheets of paper. With the use of online homework tachers really cut down their paper MSW waste too almost none. With the exception of Mr. Keilty who only printed 3 sheets of paper, online homework saved almost 600 peices of paper from the original homework use. Obviously the use of online homework saved a lot of MSW. If we multiply 600 peices of paper by 6, the amount of classes i n a day. Then we multiply that number by 4, the amount of grades. then we multiply that number by 180, the amount of school days in a single year. We would end up saving around 172,000 peices of paper each year that we use online homework.


 * __Conclusion:__**

My hypothesis, if we use online homework then we will reduce the amount of paper MSW. based on my hypothesis the information that we recieved from the experiment really backed up the hypothesis. 600 peices of paper were printed while we were testing the regular homework.While when we tested the use of online homework only 3 sheets of paper were printed. Obviously my hypothesis was backed up becuase a lot of paper MSW was saved. An error during our experiment was lenght of time of data collection. The time period where we collected data could have been a period of time where the specific teacher either did not give out much homework or gave out a lot of homework. That could have messed with our experiment, becuase the data collection could have been false, and would not have given us an acurate read on how much paper we save each year. This was an experimental error. One challenge that occured, was being on the same page as your teacher. Sometimes they would not respond to your emails, and given the information late. Our solution to reduce the amount of MSW in our school is, use bucsnet more often, and use online homework instead of regular paper homework to reduce the amount of MSW at our school..

"How many sheets of paper can be produced from a single tree?." 01 April 2000. HowStuffWorks.com.  02 March 2010.
 * __Bibliography__**