By: Haley Hansen
Hi! this is Haley, Anna, and Toby with a week 7 update. This week my team and I presented at our schools community forum! it was a lot of fun to explain and show our project to our peers and adults. We had our teams poster with two iPads, one had our blog page on it and the other had photos which people could flip thru. We also had an interactive element that consists of our milkweed kits and seed bombs which we gave away to anyone that’s was interested. in the beginning, when explaining our solution to people all of us talking at the same time was kinda confusing but by the middle we had a system figured out to all have equal talking time and a clear explanation of our project. overall the community forum was super fun and interesting, and I especially enjoyed seeing my peers projects! By: Toby Gestetner
Hello! This is Toby, Haley, and Anna with a week 6 update on how our project is going. Last week we finished making our seed bomb kits, and then on Sunday we gave them out at the Mar Vista Farmers Market. We made people aware of how the monarch butterflies need their help to get more milkweed into the world. The data that we got showed us that most of the people we gave the milkweed seed bomb kits too thought our presentation was good and taught them how the monarch butterflies need help. One thing we could have done better was to give the milkweed seed bombs out to people earlier so that we could get more information about the growth of the plants. Since we gave them out a little bit too late, we didn’t get the maximum amount of growth data we could have gotten. Posted by: Haley Hansen
Hi! we are Haley, Anna, and Toby with our week five update! we have narrowed down our solution to making milkweed seed bomb kits. They consist of a a drawstring pouch with two seed bombs inside a information card telling the user about the decrease in milkweed with an additional butterfly charm. I contacted a local farmers market and got some table space this Sunday to hand out are seed bombs and inform people about the decline in milkweed. We will have a clipboard to get the information of the people who get our kits to see how well our solution worked. Our team is super excited for this weekend and all worked together to come up and implement our idea and help the monarch! Posted by: Anna Perttula
Hello! We are Anna, Toby, and Haley with our week 4 update. This week we have discovered that there are only three more weeks until the project has to be due! We are tight on time so we created a timeline of what we need to do and by when in order for us to successfully execute our plan. Last week we got feedback from peers and faculty members. This week we are focusing on implementing the improvements into our project. The first thing on our timeline is to give out seed bombs at Mar Vista Gardens and Santa Monica Farmers Market. On Thursday we bought the milkweed seed bombs and we are excited to sell them! We are also hoping to plant milkweed in community gardens. Next week we are going to do those two things. We are really excited to get our hands dirty and save the monarchs one milkweed at a time! Posted by: Toby Gestetner
Hey again! This is Toby, Haley, and Anna with a week 3 update on our project to help save the monarch butterflies. Since our last blog post, we obtained feedback from faculty members at our school about our solution for our project. They gave us different ideas about what to modify and improve about our solution. They suggested that we use seed bombs to plant and give out to people. This would make it a more fun way to plant milkweed, which makes people more encouraged to do it. Our new and improved solution is to plant milkweed in community gardens, and also give out milkweed seed bombs to people so they can plant it in their gardens. We think that people will actually plant the milkweed seed bombs for a couple reasons. People that take our seed bombs probably want to help the monarchs survive, and all they have to do is throw the seed bombs on soil in their gardens. Once we give these seed bombs out to people, we will give them a survey so we can know if they plant their seed bombs, and what happens with them. Our solution will help the monarch community because there will be more milkweed out in the environment for them to eat and survive on! Posted by: Haley Hansen
Hey! This is Haley, Anna, and Toby with a week #2 update on our topic. We wanted to focus on monarch butterflies due to the fact that their main migration route is right though California. Monarchs issues have recently come to light and many organizations are addressing their problems such as National Geographics . The main problem for monarchs is decline in milkweed. Milkweed is a plant commonly found in the western half of North America. In C.A its found in the Sierras and Coast Ranges. Due to the decline in this plant it makes it difficult for the next generation of butterflies to survive to finish the migration. Some solutions are team has been considering was trying to stop deforestation. We soon realized how broad that was a difficult to obtain. After some long consideration we narrowed it down to how humans are cutting down milkweed plants in their homes with the confusion of thinking it’s just a normal weed. Our team also wants to make people more aware of this plant and its importance and how significant it is to the survival of monarch butterflies. Then we consider having more milkweed planted in public parks this solution can better the aesthetic in parks due to the fact that more butterfly will inhabit space and it will help monarchs with the decrease in milkweed! Posted by: Anna Perttula
Hello! Our names are Anna Perttula, Toby Gestetner, and Haley Hansen. We were given a challenge to help our community. The two solution topics that we were given to choose from were to try to enhance the mobility of humans, or to try to improve the movement patterns of living or non-living things. From these two topics, we chose to try to improve the movement patterns of living and non-living things. We then narrowed it down to how humans affect animal migration. We chose this topic because all of us like and appreciate animals, and are interested in helping them. Over the past weeks we have learned how humans affect migrating animals. From this topic, we narrowed it down even more and chose to work on how humans are affecting monarch butterflies during their migration. One reason that we chose to focus on monarch butterflies because all three of us have seen them before and feel like it would make a bigger difference to us if we could relate and create a solution to help them. Another reason we chose to focus on monarchs is because we found a lot of problems that they have when they migrate, so we thought that it would be better to help our community solve this problem. Can’t wait to continue this challenging process of helping the butterflies! |
AuthorsOur Names are Anna Perttula, Toby Gestner, and Hale Hansen! And we are seventh graders at Windward School Archives
April 2019
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