City officials have asked students to research waste disposal facilities and recycling alternatives to inform the city's plans to build a new waste facility and recycling plant. Students will conduct research in groups on waste disposal and recycling, then create a class website and podcasts to share their findings and make recommendations to the city. The project aims to help students better understand waste practices and their environmental impacts, while developing research, collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills through their work.

1. Waste Disposal and Recycling Project James Sleep Environmental Science

2. Scenario City officials have come to you expressing the need for research on waste disposal facilities and alternatives to waste disposal. The city is planning on building a new waste disposal facility as the older one is becoming filled to its limit. They are also planning to build a recycling plant on the west side of the city but are unsure of what is involved with recycling, from building the facility to what is able to be recycled. Your Task: You are to do major research on waste disposal facilities and their alternatives in groups. Your findings will be placed on the internet on a class made website for all the public to see. Along with placing your findings on the internet, each group will make a podcast talking about their findings to place on the class website. As a class, you will help plan for a speaker that is knowledgeable about waste facilities, make recommendations for the city based off all the gathered information and place them on the website, and finally plan dates for a presentation in which the community is invited and each group will present.

4. 2. Students will demonstrate creativity, communicate effectively, and display critical thinking and problem solving skills while doing group work.

5. 3. Students will become familiar with applications that are found in the “cloud.”

6. 4. Students will take advantage of the wide source of information found on the internet as well as texts.

9. Subtask1.2- Intensive Research on specific Waste Disposal subject

10. Subtask1.3- Post information on web cloud and present to class

11. Subtask1.4- Students will help teacher plan for a guest speaker familiar with waste disposal

13. Task 3:Website- Make class website Subtask 3.1- Place podcasts on a class website Subtask 3.2- The information that the students gathered will be placed on the class website

14. Task 4 Final: Subtask 4.1- Students will use their new found information and knowledge to provide recommendations to the city through a website and written report Subtask 4.2- Students will help teacher plan to invite parents for a major presentation that will last for 2 to 3 nights in which 1 to 2 classes will present a night

15. Applications used throughout the project. Sources students could use will be Google Docs, Prezi, Sliderocket, Dropbox, Audacity, Garage Band, Wikispaces, and webs.com along with other online applications that will be of use to the students.