1. Making A Better CIPLC
Done By: Lama Jaber, Antonio Morales,
Blanca Trias, Alejandro Reyes, and Edgar Gomez

2. ACTIVITY

3. Activity
• Index Cards Questions & Facts:
1. Find a partner.
2. Ask him/her the ??.
3. Let him/her guess & then give them the answer.
Outside = Question
Inside = Answer

4. How / What We Did?
• Continued last years recycling project
• Educated our school community
• Started our goals
• ECO-Club
• Ordered and sold water bottles

5. Goals
• Water Bottles
• No more paper cups
• No more plastic cups in Cantina
• Reusable Cups
• Elimination of plastic water bottles being sold in
Cantina
• Decrease Straw use

6. Last & This Years
Accomplishments
• ECO- Club
• Paper & Plastic Committee
• Earth Week (each year)
• Straw-less
• Reusable Cups & Plates- NHS & PTO Events
• Cantina=Reusable Cups

7. Essential Question
How can we make a
better school campus by
decreasing plastic & paper use?

8. PAPER

9. Paper
• What is a carbon footprint?
• What is global warming?
• How do the two relate?
• Why should we reduce our carbon footprints?
• How have we reduced our carbon footprint since last
year?

10. What is Carbon Foot Print?
 Measure of CO2
 Bigger C.F.= increased CO2
 Greenhouse effect

11. What Is Global Warming?

12. How Do The Two Relate?

13. Why Reduce it?
• Environmental changes:
 Melting of ice caps = rise of sea level
 Planet getting warmer
 Extinction of ecosystem
• Global Warming:
 Alteration of the Ozone Layer

14. How have we reduced
CIPLC’s Carbon Footprint ?

15. How Does Paper Fit
Into the Equation?
 Consumption up 400% in last 40 years.
 35% of total trees cut used in
papermaking.
 Pollution > Deforestation.

16. ACTIVITY

17. Activity
• Log in to TodaysMeet
 Check Your E-mail for link
 Discuss/Answer the ???
 Comment as much as you can

Link:http://todaysmeet.com/ciplcgingroup2012

18. CIPLC Situation
• 30,000 sheets for 217
students per month.
• 7 sheets of paper per
student each day.
• Most paper used in
one-sided printing and
copying materials

19. Recollection Method
Box System: 1 to 1
– 1 classroom = 1 cardboard box
– Designed to raise awareness
– Rules:
1. Only paper used on both sides
2. No staples, tape, or glue.
3. Classify paper according to its color.

20. How Does This Help?

21. THIS YEAR/PLASTIC

22. What is Plastic?
• Do you know what’s plastic?
• 1862-begin
• % of plastic is in the world market?
• How its used?
• How much time does it take to degrade?

23. Effects on our Planet
• Animals
• Oceans & Canals
• Forest

26. This Year-Leading Plastic
• Water Bottle Ordering & Selling
 32oz.=30bsF.
160z.=30bsF.
Names Written
Staff free
• Distribution
• We sold aprox. 200 Water Bottles

28. ACTIVITY

29. Ending Activity
• Toss It Around:
1. Stand in a circle.
2. Throw the ball around from one person to
another.
3. Whoever catches it says: What they appreciated
about the group or experience? & What they plan
to do with what they have learned?
4. Pass it around to someone else.

30. Bibliography
• http://www.cabrillo.edu/~cfink/ES%2010/Chris%20Reeves%20CABRILLO%202
012.pdf
• http://senderosporvenezuela.com.ve/?p=813
• http://www.no-sea-and-earth-pollution.org/ALBATROSS-VENEZUELA.html
• http://chemistry.about.com/od/polymers/f/What-Is-Plastic.htm
• http://www.reportlinker.com/report/best/keywords/plastic?utm_sourc
e=adwords2&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Chemical_and_Mate
rials_ROW&utm_adgroup=Plastic_ROW&gclid=CJDYg5Wtz7ICFadlOgo
dHnoAsw
• http://www.benefits-of-recycling.com/interestingrecyclingfacts/
• http://www.topix.com/forum/science/ecology/TDVKMMLI61GM6U6B9
• http://paperproject.org/paperfacts.html
• http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/pollution/trash-
vortex/
• http://www.fws.gov/invasives/volunteersTrainingModule/pdf/outreach/interactive
_activities.pdf

33. PLASTIC IS FOREVER