8+Science+2+Megan's+MSW+Project

Megan Schlernitzauer - 3/2/10 - Section 2 Number of Pieces of Paper- Daily Use - Five Class Subjects

Recently we learned about Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). MSW is trash from businesses and households. We (Myself, Darden, and Courtney) thought that paper would be a main contributer to the MSW at the middle school. Paper, although a renewable resource, we are using way to much of it. People are not recycling the paper that we have which makes it harder to renew our renewable resources.Not only does recycling save our trees, but it saves energy. We wanted to see how much paper an average student would use in each class each day. We decided to do a project to see how much paper each class actually used to see if we could make a difference in our paper waste. If the subject changes from, English to Spanish to science to history to math then the amount of paper will increase.
 * I. Introduction**

Saftey Concerns Paper Cuts - Saftey Guideline Number twelve
 * II. Materials**
 * Chart
 * Everyday school materials


 * III.Procedure**

1. Make a 6 by 8 table, as shown above. 2. Fill in each column with your 5 classes. 3. Lable each row with each day in a cylcle (Day 1, Day 2, etc.) 4. For each day keep tallies for each sheet of paper you use in each class. (worksheets, handouts, notes, etc.) All paper should be considered and counted. 5. After the 7th day add up all the tallies, average them, and determine an average to see which subject consumes the most paper.


 * IV.Data**


 * || Science || History || Math || Spanish || English ||
 * Wednesday 17th Day 1 || 2 || 5 || 3 || 4 || 3 ||
 * Thursday 18th Day 2 || 4 || 5 || 3 || 5 || 4 ||
 * Friday 19th Day 3 || 2 || 9 || 2 || 0 || 8 ||
 * Monday 22nd Day 4 || 4 || 2 || 5 || 3 || 0 ||
 * Tuesday 23rd Day 5 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 ||
 * Wednesday 24th Day 6 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 3 ||
 * Thursday 25th Day 7 || 3 || 5 || 7 || 3 || 5 ||


 * V.Analysis**

The first graph shows my daily average paper use. Surprisingly my history average was the greatest. Then math, then English, then Spanish, and then science.

My second graph shows my averages along with Courtney's and Darden's.



My hypothesis was not supported because I said that If the subject changes from, English to Spanish to science to history to math then the amount of paper will increase. This was wrong because it went from science to Spanish to English to math to social studies and the amount of paper increased. This was surprising because I thought that I would use more paper in math but I ended up using more in social studies. The major human error that was made during our experiment was that sometimes you would forget to mark your pieces of paper on your tally sheet for a class period. The challenge of our experiment was deciding what to count as a piece paper and what not to count. Our solution to this challenge was to clarify the instructions by putting examples. The solution that we came up with was that should count all papers that have to do with any of the five subjects, this includes homework and any study hall papers we used. Voice thread:[| http://ccds.ed.voicethread.com/#u451194.b955795.i5130748]
 * VI.Conclusion** -