Tayla

I like netball, sports in general, trying new things, cooking, singing, helping our community, volunteering, spending time with my friends... eg Rebecca, brie, eliza, maddi, torz, charm, Isla eg and family, swimmng,going to the beach, looking after younger children, school and faceboook! || 2 || 2 ||  || Umm well it wouldnt be the same, because these are the things that make me happy! I guess i could find some other things i might like. The world is full of opportunitys and i guess if you want to find them, you would have to start looking! Some hobbies are similar to others so if you are lucky then maybe there will be something you are interested in. || 2 || 2 ||  || Being sustainable is basically using minimal effects on our enviroment over a long period of time. For instance, recycling can help our enviroment in being sustainable! __(GOING GREEN!!)__ || **2** || 2 ||  || What are we doing to make our enviroment sustainable,other than recycling eg? Is there an individual who is really making a difference in our enviroment, if so why? || 2 || 2 ||  || Looking at the designs of recycled houses are a lot of difference from our houses us humans live in today. Some arcitects are designing eco friendly villages that produce there own sources of power. This is the future so if i was living in a home made out of recycled materials i wouldnt be fussed at all, because they are beautiful inside and save us money. They are what is needed in our society! ||  ||   ||   || Houses are made from brick, timber, stone, wood, straw, old car tyres,abestos, recycled materials,concrete eg. Houses are powered by solar panels, energy, wind powered machines, water turbines, micro-hydro electricity eg The sewage that comes from our toilets, showers, kitchen is taken out of there through pipes and is often disposed of in the ocean. Other things such as plastic can end up in the ocean which can greatly damage our eco system. Most water comes from, rain water tanks which collect the rain from the sky then it cleans the water making sure if it is drinkable. For the people who dont have a rain water tank they use town water. Town water is normal water with added chemicals in order to make the water safe. heating and cooling can be generated in many kinds of ways like, air conditions, floor heating, solar heating, the walls in your house can be used to reflect the light from the suns rays which helps make it cool in summer and warm in winter. Our houses are getting more energy efficant every single year and we are the people who can make it stay like that! || 5 || 5 ||  || I dont think that recycled houses are quiet ready to be introduced into Mortlake as of yet! we are only a small town and it will take years to change our houses into eco friendly homes. Not many of the people no of these so called recycled houses and i think we have to allow bigger places such as melbourne to get involved in making their houses eco friendly and recycled. Mortlake is going quiet fine as it is at the moment! || 5 || 4 ||  || In SA you can post your cans through a machine and it pays you 5 or 10 cents for each of them. This was reinforced in order to make the community recycle more often. Most recycled materials such as, glass, plastic, cotton, metal eg are made into similar materials. Paper is often recycled to be used in the making of news paper or magazines. But cotton is one of the more harder materials to recycle beause you have you have to add other materials to strengthen it. || Most ||  ||   || the seas of shame think chart is on my home directory.. under seas of shame think chart! || 10 ||  ||   || ||   ||   ||   || There are 6 main types of pollution. The first type is air pollution this is caused from the emmisons in the air from the vechials and factories et. Air pollution is a result of acid rain and smog. Then there is water pollution which is caused when things deteriorate. The next type is known as land or soil pollution that occurs due to accumulation of solid waste and other non degradable materials into the soil. Another type of pollution is noise pollution that is quite common in the cities and occurs when the level of noise is so high that it can not bearable for ears. The next type is radioactive pollution which is caused by the increased use of nuclear energy which increases the heat to the enviroment! || 5 ||  ||   || Sustainable living is to do which our enviroment! The reason for this is because being sustainable means you have to be cautious of the surroundings around you. Being aware of your footprint is handy so that people can no what effect they are having on our enviroment and how we can make a difference as individuals. Sustainable living is a lifestyle that attemps to reduce and individuals or societys use of earths natural resources. If we be sustainable now then the future generation will be able to control the enviroment by keeping it sustainable. And if we all work together then there is no doubt that we can become sustainable! || **5** ||  ||   || I chose the suburban location and for a total score I got 488 points. I Was told that I had a good understanding about the environment. NOTES We can make a difference by choosing to build our homes closer to schools, shops et, so that it is easier to travel to places and it would be more energy efficient! Living in the city may be a benefit because you are closer to everything and the transport is shared most of the time. Many people living in the city use trams so that would reduce there carbon footprint because if they were all taking separate cars then they would be effecting our environment a lot more than if they were all in the same vehicle. In a rural location there may be the option to use renewable energy’s. Like wind power which is not available to people living in the city. Around 30% of the UK Carbon emissions come from the ways we run our homes! To be sustainable the materials we need to build our homes should have the minimum environmental impact during there entire life cycle, that includes there manufacture, transportation, use and disposal. || 10 ||  ||   || I think the world would be a better place because everyone would be living in a clean enviroment and would be working together. Being sustainable would take a lot of hard work and commitment, but if we kept at it we could really make a difference. Being sustainable can also have many benifets to us humans so it would be a sensible thing to do. We would become more natural because the earth would not be clogged up with toxic fumes! and we would be a lot more happier! :) || 5 || 5 ||  || Some of the benifets are listed below; 1. We would be living i a cleaner enviroment and our world would be a better place 2. If you use minimal energy the power suppliers would pay you money for saving energy 3. We could help the future people because we would be sustainable... making it easier for them to be sustainable without having to put in too much effort! 4. The houses we buy would be cheaper because they would be built on being sustainable, not on what we are interested in. Turning the lights off can benifet our future because we would be conserving energy and saving money! this would be good for the enviroment because energy effects the ozone layer and if we could limet the energy we use, turning the lights off when needed could make a big difference if we all were commited. || 5 || 5 ||   || Well living sustainable in our community might work if we all worked together but we would need too take it slow and not become too ahead of ourselves. Melboune for instance would take a long time to become sustainable therefore if we wanted to make a place sustainable it would be better off starting in some place smaller so as we go on we can try and make the bigger towns and cities sustainable. Schools could become sustainable because they could promote it and make the children of todays age would become more aware of the situation. New businesses could become sustainable aswell because in the progress of making the buiding they could make it more energy efficiant! eg... || **5** || 5 ||  || The positives of being sustainable in our community would be... the houses would be cheaper and more energy efficiant therefore bringing more people into the community and this would offer more jobs, everyone would be living and working in a natural enviroment which would be much better for everyones health eg and we would be better community in itself because we would be working together to become sustainable therefore we could meet new people and make friendships. || **5** || 5 ||  || Well for starters we can get more and more people aware of being sustainable. This would include people making a difference and acting upon the mistakes we have made in the past. Recycling could be advirtised on the tv and on news articles so that we can inform people of being sustainable! Our future is in our hands and we as individuals are the people who can make a difference in our world. || 5 || 4 ||  ||  How am I going to get my 3D sustainable house finished in Google sketch up?? In the first ½ hour of the lesson I will come up with a plan for my sustainable house on paper i may even look up some energy efficiant houses on the internet I will then after convert my house into Google sketch up After i design my house i will take some pictures of it, put it in paint and write a brief description!
 * **Your name:** Tayla Hobbs ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Introduction!** || **Points** || **Progressive score** ||  ||
 * This was fantastic Tayla. Not only have you extended yourself in every answer but you were able to comprehend what your knowledge by transferring them into your own practical ideas. How much are you selling your sustainable concept house for? I will buy it! Fantastic radio advertisement. I really liked the way to put the technical terms into easy to understand laymen terms. Keep up the fantastic work - KH ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **1. Name all the things you like to do?**
 * **2. How would you feel if you could not do these things?**
 * **3. How many of things require energy such as fuel to use it, fuel to get there, machines to make what you use?** || **2** || 2 ||  ||
 * **4. Record all the things you know about being sustainable?**
 * **5. What questions do you have about being sustainable living?**
 * 6. Learning goals:To research one or more ways to live sustainably and implement these ideas into your own personal life, school, community or local business.To learn how to contribute and learn from online collaborative discussions. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|7. What is your opinion? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SBQBVH8] || 5 || 5 ||  ||
 * [|8. Setting our expectations http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SBF2CTR] || 5 || 5 ||  ||
 * [|9. How you are being Assessed http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/support/progression/geography.html#lev6] ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Total for intro || 20 || 20 ||  ||
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 * 1. Watch the 11th hour (Leonardo Di Caprio) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Your task: Contribute to the 'What does the 11th hour mean to us?' discussion (see above tab) || 5 || 5 ||  ||
 * 2. Watch the below movie with Alex Steffan Contribute to the 'What does a sustainable future mean to us?' discussion ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 3. Discuss what you think an 'ecological footprint is' in our ecological footprint discussion (see above tab). Include ideas on what you could do to reduce yours. || 5 || 5 ||  ||
 * 4. Watch 60 minutes People power ‘Off the grid’ ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Red Hat: How would you feel about living in a house made from recycled materials?**
 * **White hat: Give us the facts! What are the houses made from? How are they powered? What about sewage, water, heating/cooling etc.?**
 * **Black hat:It’s time to be a skeptic! Why would these types of houses not work in our community? Would these houses support your current lifestyle? Could we build them in Mortlake!!! Surely not! Tell us why**
 * **Yellow hat: What would be the benefits of living in the houses featured? What are the positives?**
 * 1.** Health and standards of livIng will benifet by living eco friendly because everything is natural!
 * 2.** You can get payed by your power suppliers from being eco friendly
 * 3.** A healthy home which is toxin-free
 * 4.**A cost efficiant home becaue a green home is equal to or cheaper than am average standard home
 * 5.** Cutting back on the amount of energy you use
 * 6.** You get to help the future society by keeping the world sustainable || 5 || 5 ||  ||
 * **Green hat: What other uses for recycled material can you think of?**
 * [|5. Watch http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/liambartlett/598914/seas-of-shame] ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Complete the ‘Seas of shame think chart
 * [your certificate)]
 * [|7. Complete this survey and find out how you could live more sustainably http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/] || 10 ||  ||   ||
 * (At the end click continue and explore then summarise your findings) ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **8. Record how many different types of pollution can you think of?**
 * **1=poor, 2=ok, 3=getting there, 4=not bad, 5=on fire, 6=super star, 7 or more=oracle** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **9. From what you have learned so far how would you describe sustainable living?**
 * **10. Name as many ways as possible to produce renewable energy? (Create a concept map in Freemind to show this.** || **5** ||  ||   ||
 * **11. Find out how sustainable your home is (Take notes on what you are learning and record your summary)**
 * [|http://www.mysusthouse.org/game.html] ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Total for Explore || 80 ||  ||   ||
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 * **__What does a sustainable future mean to you through DeBono’s hats__** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Red Hat: How would you feel about living sustainably?**
 * **White Hat: Give us the facts! What the benefits of living sustainably now?(Include facts to back up your statements e.g. What does turning off lights when they aren’t being used mean to the environment and our future?**
 * **Black Hat: It’s time to be a skeptic! Why would sustainable living not work in our community? Would sustainable living support your current lifestyle? Are there people, towns, cities, businesses, schools that can’t practice sustainable living? Surely not! Tell us why**
 * **Yellow Hat: What would be the benefits of living in sustainable community? What are the positives?**
 * **Green Hat: Can you think of other ways that you could be sustainable in the future? (Yes and no are not answers!**
 * Total for Explain || 25 ||  ||   ||
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 * Choose two ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|Before starting, create a timeline that includes what you will need to do and when you will do it by.See here for an example http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines/]

you could be energy efficiant by trying to save as much energy. Recycling is the first thing that comes into mind when we think about our enviroment and being sustainable. We can encourage communication via email and if you dont have to print the email, then DON'T! We can turn off equipment when it is not being used, like the lights et.. We can start using double sided printing because then it will reduce our paper waste by half. Don't leave taps dripping and try and save as much water as you can as it can benifet the future people of our society. Another way to promote sustainable living is to educate people of the topic. Workshops are being run so that more and more people can become aware of it. Many people would not even no the meaning of "sustainability" is.... so if the governments advirtised something on the tv about sustainability then more people would have an idea on what it is, there-fore giving them more inspiration about making a difference not only for them but for the people in their community and the future people of the world! || 10 || 10 ||  ||
 * 1) I will upload my house onto the wiki spaces page and evaluate my work! ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1**. What are ten things you can do right now to promote sustainable living? How could you make this happen?**
 * **2. Join an existing Blog conversation (see resources page) on sustainable living (Remember to be cyber safe by not publishing your real name, your address, birth date, where you live, school you go to or team you play for).**

I joined a group that was discussing climate change and ways for how we can stay sustainable. I contributed my feeling of the topic like the other users, i stated what i knew about climate change and sustainability and posted a comment || 10 ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:house_4_paint.jpg width="610" height="265"]] || 10 ||  ||   ||
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 * [|5. Create a radio advertisement promoting a way to be sustainable. Upload to here http://www.podomatic.com/featured]

media type="file" key="My sustainability podcast.wma" width="300" height="45" || 10 ||  ||   || || 10 ||  ||   || I think that this project has been a good learning experience because of the fact that we got to learn about the world and ways of being sustainable. This project was better then the projects we do on paper etc, because it is an online unit and it is easy to access at home or any other places other then school! In the future i think that the project should still be online but it would be better if we could have more design related activitys, the google sketch up house design was good as well as the susthouse game that we played online! I really enjoyed this unit and hope to do another online related project soon :) || 20 ||  ||   || Tayla Hobbs
 * [|6. Create a crossword using words that foster sustainable living http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html]
 * Maximum of 20 || 20 ||  ||   ||
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 * 1. Use these two rich task guides to plan, setup and evaluate a sustainable idea || 10 ||  ||   ||
 * richTaskReflectEvaluateFlowChart.doc ||  ||   ||   ||
 * richTaskReflectEvaluate.doc ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 2. Complete this survey to reflect on how you felt this unit worked for you || 5 ||  ||   ||
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 * **3. While completing this unit. What do you think you did well? What do you think the class did well? What do you think the teacher did well? How could you have improved what you did, the class did, the teacher did?**
 * 4. Contribute to the future ideas for Geography discussion at the top of this page || 5 ||  ||   ||
 * 5. Present your completed work either through www.slideshare.net, www.prezi.com or your wiki. || 10 ||  ||   ||
 * 6. Congratulations, you have just completed your first totally online unit. You are now familiar with how the Ultranet will help direct your learning for the future. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Total for Evaluate || 50 ||  ||   ||
 * Resource ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 1 referenced resource || 1 ||  ||   ||
 * 2 referenced resources || 2 ||  ||   ||
 * 3 referenced resource || 3 ||  ||   ||
 * 4 or more referenced resources || 10 ||  ||   ||
 * Total for resources || 16 ||  ||   ||
 * Total for unit || 211 ||  ||   ||
 * 211-190=High Distinction, 189-170=Distinction, 169-150=Credit, 149-105=Pass, Less than 105=Need have a conversation about applying for extra time. This will involve your time and not class time! ||  ||   ||   ||