Action Plan Part One:
We are planning for the water challenge.
Issue:
- Environmental topic: Pollution in the area. The Chesapeake is beautiful, but its beauty will fade away if people continue to pollute its waters.
- Local Issue: We live in the area, so pollution of these waters affects all of us. This issue is important to us because we live close the area we are researching.
Plan:
- Our goal is to raise awareness of what is happening in our area's waterways.
- We want to make a newsletter that states what we want to do, our topic, and other important details. We will also take pictures of waterways near us.
-Timeline: 1) Contact Foundation 2) Go to and take pictures of waterways 3) Plan and distribute newsletter 4) Make website
- Our whole school and community can help us. Really anyone can help our cause.
- We will measure success by taking a poll and we'll quantify our results by tallying up how much trash has been picked up.
Responsibilities:
E- Make Website| BP- Newsletter| J- comic| BT- Research, Pictures, Graphs
| A- Chooses layout for Newletter, makes flyers advertising website| Ev- Take pictures, comic
Action Plan Part Two:
Implementation:
-We made our website, and got everyone to do their fair share of the work.
-We did not organize a school event, but we did make an article.
- We did not send anything to the media.
- The community did not get involved, as far as we know.
- We had some trouble getting pictures for our project, but everything worked out in the end.
- To solve our problems, we used pictures from the internet.
Results:
-Our plan was successful in the way that we managed to get all of part one of our action plan finished and out of the way.
- Our plan could have been improved by distributing the jobs more evenly.
- There wasn't a huge noticeable outcome from finishing our plan, but the positive part was probably the fact that it felt good to let people know what was going on in our water attractions.
- We didn't have much of a quantifiable effect. Maybe some people volunteered at the Bay Foundation after they read our website, but that's all.
- We learned that teamwork is the key to success, and that we can do more than we think to save the Chesapeake. From this experience we also learned that even if water looks clean, it isn't clean, and that humans have been making certain actions illegal such as littering and chemical dumping.
