Money Trees and Economic Growth

                                                        Money Trees and Economic Growth  

            Hello, my name is K.W and for my final action project of the term, I had to recreate a song for it to relate to SDGs 8 and 9 and create a music video that can be interpreted as the visual aspect of hip-hop. I also had to do this with 2 other group members to learn about creative input. During this term, I have done various amounts of action projects ranging from posters to essays. Although I would have to say this was the most challenging. 

    The challenges in this action project really challenged my brain on a producing aspect. Some of the challenges I faced were coming up with ideas for the video, picking a song, making lyrics that relate to my assigned SDG's, doing multiple takes for the video in public which challenged my social skills, finding time to shoot the video, and editing the video. This assignment pushed me to grow in multiple ways and also taught me new things. I have always had a way with words but this gave me a topic to write from and also build a melody with those words, which was the emceeing element of hip-hop. 

       Morever this was a very challenging yet fun project to do, which I think is a good example of what its like being a GCE student. 

Filtering Water, A Brain Teasing Task

                                  

                                        Filtering Water, A Brain Teasing Task

            Have you ever filtered water or wondered how it gets filtered? If you have I think you will enjoy this blog post. Hello, my name is K.W and for the past 2 weeks, in my water class, I have been learning about filtering water. I have learned the steps and the tedious measures to filter water from the water plant to twisting the water faucet. There are many steps and precautions that happen just to make sure you have potable drinking water. While reading this you may ask yourself, Why is filtering water important? Water filtration is important because at least 2 billion people have dirty drinking water. While people in more fortunate countries waste water every day without even realizing it. 

    The process of filtering water can be similar to trial and error. Before I started my experiment I created a sketch, a question, and a hypothesis. How can I clean water using materials at home and on a molecular level? And my hypothesis was that I can clean the water but it wouldn't be completely filtered. The materials I used were a plastic water bottle, scissors, foam beads, a measuring cup, rocks, minced banana peel, dirty water, a mask, and a TDS measurer. Firstly I cut the water bottle in half and took the top half of the bottle, unscrewed the cap, and flipped it over on top of the bottom half. Then I cut the mask and placed the mesh inside the bottle, next I placed the rocks on top of the mesh, then I took another layer of mesh and placed the minced banana in that layer. Next, I took another layer of mesh and placed it over the minced banana, and covered it with foam beads. Now I was ready to test, so I poured my dirty water into my filter twice and then measured the TDS. To my surprise my TDS was actually higher, meaning my filter didn't work. Before my TDS was 925 and after it was 1028 meaning my TDS went up by 103 and 11.14%.  

    In conclusion, if I were to do this again I would remove the foam beads and rocks and replace them with leaves and activated charcoal. Overall I had fun and I feel more educated on water filtration. 

 before water TDS 925

 after TDS 1028 

Spanish Action Project

                                                        Spanish Action Project 

     Hello, my name is K.W and for the past week, I have been working on writing a letter to my pen pal. I have been explaining to my pen pal the things you can do in Pilsen and describing the holiday Dias de Los Muertos. I also had to make an audio recording of dialogue about this holiday.I asked said hello to my pen pal, asked them how they were doing, with a follow up question of whats their favorite holiday. I feel as though we as global citizens should learn more about holidays of other cultures. Before this action project, I did not know anything about this holiday other than hearing about it in the movie coco. I feel very saddened by the fact that there is very little representation of culture in the media. In conclusion, I feel enlightened on Dias de Los Muertos and I think it is a cool holiday. 

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