January 1st - March 15th 1996
BLUE PRINT EARTH PAGE OF IDEAS
ENVIRONMENT
TAX-FORM
ALPHABET BOOK OF
PROBLEMS
FUTURE EVENTS POLL
POACHERS
FOOD FOR THE
THOUGHTS
IMPACT OF INVENTIONS
CAST YOUR VOTE
OTHER BLUE PRINT EARTH
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Indu Varma
ivarma@nbnet.nb.ca
Tor Arne Richvoldsen
richvold@grida.no
1. We try to save electricity (energy) YES: 8 ______ NO: 2
We do it by:
2. We try to drive our car as little as possible. YES: 3 ______ NO: 7
We do it by:
3. We only use un-leaded gas. YES: 8 ______ NO: 2
4. We don't throw left-overs from meals, we use them again. YES: 9 ______ NO: 1
5. We grow / gather our own food. YES: 8 ______ NO: 2
We do it by:
6. We think about the environment when we choose washing powder. YES: 3
______ NO: 7
7. We sort out garbage and hand over to recycling. YES: 10 ______ NO: 0
We sort out:
8. We mend clothes, equipment and machines instead of throwing them away.YES: 10 ______ NO: 0
9. We are often out enjoying adventures in the nature ( mountains, forests atc.) YES: 9 ______ NO: 1
10. We use a compost heap with garden waste. YES: 5 ______ NO: 5
We do it by:
11. We try to make presents ourself or give adventures instead of buying things.YES: 4 ______ NO: 6
12. We try to buy things made of recycled materials. YES: 6 ______ NO: 4
13. We have asked for ecological grown foods in our foodstore. YES: 3 ______ NO:
7
14. We choose the goods which are the best for out environment when we go
shopping. YES: 6 ______ NO: 4
At least when we buy:
15. If necessary we ask the sales staff about the environmental quality of the products. YES: 0 ______ NO: 10
16. We don't buy superfluous and useless things. YES: 2 ______ NO: 8
17. We think about the environment when we plan our holidays. YES: 5 ______ NO: 5
18. We take care of and deliver special wasts (like used batteries, old paint etc). YES: 10 ______ NO: 0
19. We don't buy or use chemicals which damages our environment. YES: 4 ______ NO: 6
20. We discuss environmental issues with friends, collegues, school-friends or neighbors. YES: 6 ______ NO: 4
21. We try not to use nonce-use products (products use only once) YES: 6 ______ NO: 4
22. We choose products with as little packing as possible. YES: 3 ______ NO: 7
Please return this TaxFrom to Tor Arne Richvoldsen
richvold@grida.no
Written by Christopher Harborne & Joseph Holownia at Marshview
Middle School, Sacksville
I think that poachers are just greedy for money, animal skins, and other things involving killing
animals.
People should have stricter laws against poaching. I think that one of the laws should be NO
POACHING!
I think poachers are very bad, and be banned for life. They kill animals for their skins or for
ivory.
I think there should be more and harsher laws against poachers. For every animal a poacher kills they
should get 10 years in jail.
Poll your students and mail your results to the moderator:
Indu Varma
When do you think this will happen?
10 years.......... 25 years.......... 50 years..........
Never..........
Please feel free to add to this list and send your responses to us as soon as possible.
We are waiting to hear from you and your students.
Hello Blue Print earth participants!
Hope your discussions are going well. Here is some "food" for thought.
U.S.A. and Canada make up only 6% of the world's population and use up one third
of all energy used in the world.
1.__________________________________________________________________________
I shall keep sending more ideas your way. Do the activities that fit in your scheme of
things and ignore the rest.
Thanks.
Indu
These are a few things written by students in grade 6A at Marshview Middle School about
Invention Impact.
1. A radio distracts a person when they are doing their homework because they are listening and not
doing their homework.
2. The next day at school you get in trouble by the teacher for not having your homework done.
3.Then you have to yake a note home.
4. Your mother hollars at you and you get grounded.
5. Your mother might even take your radio away.
Stacey
1. The factory produses their product.
2.The smoke pollutes the environment and kills some of the animals and humans.
3. The factory lets out more and more smoke.
4. The smoke causes cancer for some people that live in the area.
5. The government stops the company from leting out smoke.
Andi
1. You go home and you leave all your homework just to watch TV.
2. If you leave your homework you probably will get in trobble with your teacher.
3. If you get in trobble with the teacher, you'll get in big trobble with your parents.
4. And if you still don't get your homework done,your grades might go down.
5. If your grades go down,you might fail.
6. And if you fail, you'll be tought the same.
Amanda P.
1. First you have to buy a cd player then you have to buy cd's then you want to buy more and more
cd's. The person that sells it to you gets richer and you get poorer.
2. With a cd player if you are doing homework it destracts you and you don't do it right then you
give up on it and go watch TV.
3. Your mother askes if you are done your homework you lie and say you are done so she will leave
you alone.
4. You go to shool the next day without your homework done.
5. Your teacher askes you if you are done your homework you decided last night not to lie again so
you had to tell her the truth so you say "No I'm not done my homework" she would say why aren't
you done your homework and you say I don't know why.
6. The teaher sends a note home saying you are not done your homework.
7. Your mother finds the note in your bookbag.
8. Your mother gronds you and takes your cd player away from you your not allowed to talk on the
phone and not allowed to go anywhere until she ungrounds you. I don't think a cd player is worth all
the trouble you'd get into.
By: Melanie McWhirter
2. You forget to do your homework you remember when it is to late.
3. You go to school the next day and you get a note for not having your homework finished.
4. After school you go home with the note and you show it to your mom she sees the note and first
you get a lecture then you get grounded.
1. People go out and buy these exspensive machines. *- )
2. People get locked into their own little worlds and forget about Earth. [:-)
3. People spend less time with their friends and don't study. -l:0)
4. The realness of virtual reality blows peoples minds making then go insane.
Evan Pooley
1. Buy it
By Lori Comier
1. You buy it and use it.
By Sherri Driscoll
1. Children gab too much with friends
by Karen
Good Consequences:
Bad Consequences
By Bryson Gilbert
Looking at the future and considering some of the challenges that face us for the
future of our planet, cast your vote on the following items. Consider the issues carefully and then
give your opinions. Choose only one of the answers for each statement.
Add comments to explain your answers or suggest ways of implementing the given statement.
Feel free to add to the given list.
Send your votes and comments to the Kidforum List
1. Anyone who pollutes the environment should be fined. __SA __ A __ D __SD
2. School attendance should be completely voluntary. __SA __ A __ D __SD
3. We should regulate the use of home computers. __SA __ A __ D __SD
4. A person is still human even if 95% of his body has been replaced with artificial parts. __SA __ A
__ D __SD
5. The United Nations should govern space colonies established by any nation. __SA __ A __ D
__SD
6. Parents should be allowed to choose the sex of a baby its birth. __SA __ A __ D __SD
7. Non-renewable resources should be rationed. __SA __ A __ D __SD
8. We should develop more sophisticated and powerful weapon system. __SA __ A __ D __SD
9. As more advanced electronic communication systems emerge, people will lose their ability to read
and write. __SA __ A __ D __SD
10. More money should be allotted for medical research to develop an anti-aging pill. __SA __ A __
D __SD
11. Insects and worms will become a main part of our diet. __SA __ A __ D __SD
12. Terrorism will continue to increase in the world. __SA __ A __ D __SD
13. Scientists should use genetic engineering to breed superior human beings. __SA __ A __ D
__SD
14. Life forms that are more intelligent than we are exist in other solar systems. __SA __ A __ D
__SD
15. We should continue to develop more automated homes, industries, and devices to allow us more
leisure time. __SA __ A __ D __SD
16. All humans should consider themselves global citizens, rather than citizens of a given nation.
__SA __ A __ D __SD
17. There will be world unity when the Earth is invaded by aliens. __SA __ A __ D __SD
POACHERS
Students at Marshview Middle School, Sacksville picked one of their words from the Alphabet Book
and wrote about it:
Because of them, the world's animal population is going down, and more species are becoming
endangered or extinct.
Some people are trying to stop the poachers, but most of them don't listen, and they keep on
poaching.
My thoughts are that if the poachers poach all of the world's animals, they'll be out of a job.
Right now, I don't think there's much I can do against the poachers, but a good place to see what is
made with illegally
obtained animals things is the Canadian Wildlife Service in town.
Right when you walk in, there are glass display cases with a lot of ivory artifacts, lizard and cat
skins, and things related to that.
Some of the things at CWS are quite nice, but it's not that nice to see what animals had to be killed
to produce these things.
I don't think stores should buy animal furs. Poachers in the rain forest know it's against the law to kill
tigers & minks.
It's not very nice to see what happens to the animals.
If they only killed one animal at a time just for food that would be okay but poachers kill any where
from 3 to 10.
If people would only be more careful to watch for poachers.
I think that there should be more signs around nature reserves, where there is no hunting, saying
"NO HUNTING OR POACHING! YOU WILL BE CHARGED IF YOU
DO!"
FUTURE EVENTS POLL
ivarma@nbnet.nb.ca
Let's see if there are some common elements that we can focus on.
FOOD FOR THE
THOUGHTS
Fossil fuels (oil, coal, and gas) and nuclear fission are our primary source of energy.
Unfortunately we are using them one million times faster than they are being produced.
Nuclear fission, we know from the Chernobyl abd Three Mile Island disaster, is far from safe.
Explore some alternative sources of energy with your students and analyze their advantages and
disadvantages
and if possible give them a rank in terms of being most effective (10) to least (1).
Students can make up charts under the following headings.
2.__________________________________________________________________________
3.__________________________________________________________________________
4.__________________________________________________________________________
5.__________________________________________________________________________
6.__________________________________________________________________________
7.__________________________________________________________________________
8.__________________________________________________________________________
9.__________________________________________________________________________
10._________________________________________________________________________
If you are trying out some neat things send them down to me and I can forward your ideas to every
one.
All the best.
IMPACT OF
INVENTIONS
1. You get a new tape player for your birthday and you also get a really cool tape and you listen to it
all day .
So before you listen to your tape - DO your homework.
It's better to do your homework for half an hour than to get in trouble againschool is more important
than a new tape and a new tape player.
2. Pollution from cars can kill people with lung or other problems.
2. Car accidents
3. You don't get all the exercise you need
4. If the car breaks down you have to buy new parts and then you waste money
2. Do business on the phone.
3. People talk on them when they are driving and cause accidents
4. People can listen in on your conversations
4. You don't have any privacy
5. If you use it too much you could get a brain tumour
6. Then you could die.
2. Children don't do their homework - don't do their chores
3. End up with bad marks - get grounded
4. Fail the grade - get suspended
1. You could learn a lot from computers
2. If you learned a lot, you would be smarter.
3. If you were smarter, you'd get better jobs.
1. Staring at the screen could strain your eyes
2. You might need glasses if this kept happening
3. You would probably get teased if you picked an ugly pair of glasses.
CAST YOUR VOTE
Hello Blue Print Earth participants!
Include the name of your school, city, and country above the statement that you add, and want
others to cast their vote on.
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Last Updated: 25 March 1996