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ONLINE HOMEWORK TO REDUCE PAPER WASTE!

I. Introduction: At CCDS, we are creating unneccessary municple waste. A major municple waste we are consumig at our school is paper. Every night, students waste paper by doing homework on paper. A solution to this problem is to use electronic homework only instead of writing on paper. The homework would be posted online, where students can fill out the worksheet and e-mail it back to their teacher. Did you know that one tree is 805 pounds of paper? 100 sheets of paper is one pound? One tree produces 80,500 sheets of paper, and 800 pieces of paper per pound? If we use online homework only for a week, then we will reduce consumption of paper and reduce paper waste at our school.

II. Materials: 1. Computer 2. Paper 2. Mrs. Rohr, Ms. Biggers, Mr. Rinehart, Mr. Keilty

Safety Guidelines
 * Do not work alone
 * Watch out for paper cuts
 * No horsing around

III. Procedure:

1. Organize group 2. Assign two people to one teacher in a grade (William and Emmy to Mr. Keilty), (Sumner and Larson to Mr. Jarrett), (Will and Clark to Mrs. Biggers), (Gordon and Thomas to Mrs. Rohr) 3. Get teacher's approval to use online homework for one week 4. Measure paper given out for homework from the 8th to the 12th 5. Record data from first week 6. For the second week, change homework so it's only online, using no paper, from the 22nd to the 25th 5. Record data from second week 6. Compare both weeks of data and see if online homework can help save a lot of paper 9. Weigh paper and calculate total weight saved from online homework

GROUPS:

Independent Variable: Usde of Bucsnet/electronics Dependent Variable: Amount of paper trash Control Group: Week with homework with paper Experimental Group: Week with use of bucsnet/electronics only

IV. DATA

Total Paper Saved: 600 Average: 150 Total School Days: 33 weeks and 4 days
 * || Week with homework || Week with Online homework || Amount of paper saved using electronics ||
 * Mrs. Rohr || 310 || 0 || 310 ||
 * Ms. Biggers || 90 || 0 || 90 ||
 * Mr. Rinehart || 127 || 0 || 127 ||
 * Mr. Keilty || 73 || 0 || 73 ||

V. ANALYSIS:

-The graph shows that we saved about 600 pieces of paper in this week by using online homework. Multiply the 600 pieces of paper used by the amount of classes in a day (which is 6), and then multiply that by the amount of grades (4), and then multiply that by the amount of school days (180), you would come up with 172,800 pieces of paper.We could save 172,000 pieces of paper if the whole entire middle school used online homework per year. That is close to about 2 trees worth of paper.

VI. CONCLUSION: If online homework is used for a week, then the school will reduce consumption of paper and reduce paper waste at our school. According to our data, we did reduce the consumption of paper by doing homework online for a week. Together, we saved 600 pieces of paper. If the use of online homework continued throughout the year, we could save 172,000 pieces of paper! Some possible errors that could go wrong in the experiment would be the different amounts of homework a teacher gives out to the class one week. Some teachers gave out a heavier load of homework one night than others. We should have expanded our time for the use of online homework to see if the rate of many weeks were close to the same or perhaps different. This is an experimental error because we should have expanded the time to collect data from online homework. Another error in this experiment was the mis-communication with the teachers. For instance, Larson and I forgot to e-mail him was a human error. On the other hand, Mr. Rinehart failed the attempt to talk to us about our project which is an experimental error. Some challenges we had in our project was finding teachers that would be willing to help us collect the data. Some of the teachers could not contribute to our project because they did not know enough time in advance, while some already had homework planned for the upcoming week. If we had more information to give at an earlier time, some of the teachers might have considered to help with our project. A solution to this is to use BucsNet more. The teachers should post the worksheet on BucsNet and then the students can send it to the teachers e-mail. I think we should continue to use online homework because it would make our school environment more eco-friendly.

VOICE THREAD: Save a tree, don't do homework (Well, on paper that is)

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Bibliography: "HowStuffWorks "How many sheets of paper can be produced from a single tree?""//HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!// Web. 26 Feb. 2010. .