Tuesday, March 23

Plastiki voyage is four days in. We watched a few of the updated videos today.
Then we practiced using RASER as a strategy to answer open-ended questions.

Here is the written response example:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0O-c8pnNFryMjZmYWYzNzMtNmE2Yy00ZTRlLTg4ZDYtMTU4YzNjM2E1ZDE1&hl=en

Note each colour of text represents increasing one level of achievement.

The voyage set sail on March 19th. David de Rothschild is sailing in a vessel made out of 12000 reclaimed plastic bottles. Caveat, some of the material (eg. bottles are filled with carbon monoxide). Hmmm...environmental proactive or potentially environmentally damaging voyage. What's your point of view?


The navigation system is powered by three---three energy producing bicycles...
http://www.youtube.com/theplastiki#p/a/u/1/NEoZcWyIVXM



Here's the info re: technology behind the 60ft catamaran "made of our reclaimed recycled and reclaimed plastic bottles.
http://www.youtube.com/theplastiki


Here's the link to the blog. Scroll down and there is a cnn video regarding the launch of the voyage as well.
http://www.theplastiki.com/2010/03/plastiki-adventure-begins/


and somewhat related...What did the plants think? (a one-minute "POV" courtesy of our green friends.

http://www.youtube.com/theplastiki#p/a/u/2/4LZ4sEge218

TDSB Earth Hour - 2 - 3 p.m. on Friday.

Global Earth Hour - 8:30 - 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 27 -
Here's the official 2010 video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FclcMfzjwug&feature=player_embedded