Seals vs. Humans

In this final unit of our STEAM Population class, we learned more about the relationships between species, as well as new ways to calculate sequences of numbers. We also learned more about specifically how humans and animals affect each other. Most of the time, the humans negatively affect the animals, while the animals don't do much of anything to the humans. It kind of goes to show that we're slowly ruining the Earth as we develop our own society and way of living. For this Action Project, we were tasked with creating our own 1-2 minute video about the relationship between our researched animal and humans. I chose to research Harbor seals. Below is my video that I created for this Action Project.


WH, Population Video, 2018

I also had to do some calculations to find what the human population would have looked like over those ten years. Below are the results of those calculations. Our population has been rising drastically over the last few years. We're eventually going to reach a point where we use up all the resources on our planet.
6,088,571,383 humans in 2000
6,858,584,755 humans 2010
Increase over those years: +770,013,372
Increase per year: +77,001,337

Both populations are rising at a geometric rate, since if they were going up at a arithmetic way they would be going up the same amount every year. Geometric increase means they're multiplying every year, by a small amount.

In conclusion, this project felt rushed to me. We didn't have much time for this unit (it started 2 weeks before the end of the term), so I feel like the whole experience was rushed. Nonetheless, this project wasn't too hard, because of my past research this semester on Harbor seals, but it would have been nice to have more time to include more into the project.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Walls Closing In

This third unit of our Humanities class this term, Rhetoric, was all about investigating the ways rhetoric can work to motivate people to be engaged. The same appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos from our last unit can be used to analyze many forms of art, not just written texts. We went on a Field Experience to Marquette Park to visit the Living Memorial to Martin Luther King and the Chicago Freedom Movement, a piece of public art erected in recognition of the anti-segregation march held there in 1966. While we were there, we met Sadia Nawab, the Director of Arts and Culture at non-profit community organization Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN). She was one of the primary drivers behind the creation and installation of the project. We also explored how artists use their work as a platform to send political messages, and how Cuban art fed Africa's liberation struggles. For this Action Project, we had to look at an important social topic in today's society and make an art...
Read more

12 Hours of Endurance

Image
For this second unit of our Humanities class this term, Endurance, we learned more about modern examples of people that have endured, such as people like David Blaine, who set a world record for the longest time a person could hold their breath underwater, and Laura Dekker, who embarked on a two-year voyage sailing around the world in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to do so.  For this specific Action Project, we were tasked with deciding on something that we would commit to work on and endure for 12 hours over the span of two weeks. I chose to write out a setting for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, personally, and see how far I could get with those twelve hours. Below is my video log of my work, documenting the process and my thoughts, and the planning table I used.   In conclusion, I thought that this Action Project was actually really interesting and fun. I liked the complete creative freedom that we had in choosing what we wanted to do for the req...
Read more

Building With...Cacti?

For our first unit of our winter STEAM class called Biomimicry, we learned about how to apply nature to human design. For the FE that we went on this unit, we went to a flooring company called Interface, that uses environmentally-friendly carpeting which is inspired by nature. There, we learned about sustainability and a little bit about how to run a business. For this Action Project, we were tasked with researching a plant, then figuring out how we could use that plant's specific attributes and apply them to human design. Below is my slideshow, which is on the Saguaro Cactus. In conclusion, I thought that this project was an interesting idea. I'm proud of my idea that I came up with, although it is quite obscure compared to my original plant inspiration. It's an interesting idea that could benefit many people. The most difficult part of this project was probably finding research for my idea. I eventually had to turn to government articles and research papers for idea...
Read more