Team Oops

Jessica - Batteries contain metals like mercury, lead, cadmium, and nickel, which can contaminate the environment, so it is important to recycle batteries.

Team Oops

Gabriel (Reporter) - In San Diego, residents can get rid of their batteries by making appointments at the City's Household Hazardous Waste Facility
Jessica(Historian) - Inside a battery, heavy metals react with chemical electrolyte to produce the battery's power. Wet-cell batteries commonly power automobiles, boats, or motorcycles. Recycling batteries keeps heavy metals out of landfills and the air

Team Duracell

Technition:Jason

Artist:Justin

Reporter:Jaleceia Johnson

Historian:Zomega & Leo

Scientist:Perris

Team Sparco

Scientist - Isaiah

• Every battery contains an electrode and electrolyte inside it. Electrolyte stores the charge which is given out as a voltage.
• Batteries consist of a number of electrochemical cells in a single package.

Historian - Justin

•  In 1799, Italian physicist Alessandro Volta created the first battery by stacking alternating layers of zinc, brine-soaked pasteboard or cloth, and silver.
• Some historians think that the earliest batteries were made over 2,000 years ago.

Artist - Austin

•  Researched for a new design of batteries developed by researchers at MIT.
• The new battery relies on an innovated architecture called a semi-flow cell.

Reporter - Jay

• The Miramar lanfill spans over 1,500 acres and is the city of San Diego's only active landfill.
• How much waste is disposed in a landfill (910,000 tons of waste)

Team INFINITE

Scientist (Margaret):
- Dry cell batteries include alkaline, carbon zine, mercuric-oxide, silver oxide, zinc air, and lithium.
- Dry cell batteries produce about 1.5 volts.
- Dry cell batteries are household batteries used in power tools, watches, toys, flashlights, etc.

Historian (Hanna):
- About 14 million tons of food waste were generated in 2003.
- When recycling, you should separate bottles, cans, paper, etc. (You should separate them because it will make it easier to reduce and reuse.)

 Artist (Anjelica):
- In the United States, annual production of waste has tripled since 1960. The average American produces 4.5 pounds of trash every day.
- Artists has chosen to create a connection to everyday life and to reject the idea that making art requires precious/expensive material.

Reporter (Nimo):
- Miramar recycling center recycles materials. Must be clean and contain no metal, food, waste, or trash and be separated.
- 910, 000 tons of waste are currently disposed yearly at Miramar Landfill.

-Katrina

Team Oops

Gabriel -Reporter
Jamie -Historian and Scientist
Allison -Artist
Noelle -Artist
Mubarak -Technician
Jessica -Technician and Historian

Team Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies

Key Findings

Aiko - Historian

1. Inside a battery, heavy metals react with chemical electrolyte so the batteries can produce power.

2. Recycling saves resources because recovered plastic and metals to make new batteries.

Bianca - Scientist

1. The most common type of battery is the "dry-cell battery". A Dry-cell battery" is essentialy comprised of a metal electrode that is surrounded by a moist electrolyte paste.

Joshua - Artist

1. San Diego Midden - Inspired by their research into the devastating impact of plastic trash on the world's ocean.

2. Secret Garden - Influenced by the practice in which unwanted used clothing from the United States is baled and sold overseas to third world countries, with the bulk going to Africa.

Brandon - Reporter

1. Miramar Landfill Site explained that casual visitors are prohibited due to safety issues, also saying that the Miramar Landfill is limited to rash disposal, recycling and other landfill businesses.

Reneir - Technician

1. Wrote down the group findings.

Update #1

Technicians - Please add a blog post that includes your team's name, and a list of the group member's roles. When you are ready, give an update on each team member's research, including urls if possible.

Mrs. Compton Hall

Project Mission

Your mission for today is to begin work on specific jobs your group role:

1. Scientist - take Cornell Notes as you research basic facts about dry cell batteries; be sure to cite the url(s) of any sites you visit
2. Historian - take Cornell Notes as you research Batteries in the Common Wastes section of the Environmental Protection Agency website; cite your url(s)
3. Artist - take Cornell Notes on research in the Trash exhibit section at the New Children's Museum website; cite your url(s)
4. Reporter  - take Cornell Notes on research about the Miramar Landfill and Recycling Programs at the San Diego Environmental Services Department; cite your url(s)
5. Technician - create a blog post summarizing 1-2 key findings from each group member's research (email ccompton[at]sandi[dot]net if you did not enter your email address to be included as a blog author)

Good luck and be successful!

Welcome!

 

Hello and welcome to our blog!  We are Mrs. Compton Hall's AVID class at Bethune K-8 school in the San Diego Unified School District.  We will participate in Disney Planet Challenge (DPC) this year, and this blog the start to our journey.  You can learn more about DPC at this link here.

In December 2011, we brainstormed several different project ideas.  After doing a trash pick-up around our classroom, and by thinking about environmental issues in our community, we chose to focus on a local, school-based battery recycling program.

On our first day back to school in 2012, we started a 'jigsaw' where we have different teams each with five experts who will periodically meet together and then report back to the home group.  These jobs are the:

1.    Scientist – who will explore the scientific concept of a battery, and perform any necessary battery testing on our collection;

2.    Historian – who will research the trash/recycling program in San Diego, and give a brief overview of the ecology of trash;

3.    Artist – who will design a battery recycling box for distribution and develop a “Trash to Art” project (i.e. current Children’s Museum display);

4.    Reporter – who will work closely with the historian to write and deliver a news report about trash and feature the team’s recycling program and art project;

5.    Technician – who will document the team’s work on our blog and work on the DPC digital portfolio submission for the class.

We are the class technicians, and we will look forward to daily reporting about the progress we make on our challenge project!

- C. Compton Hall