Talent 21 Project- Deforestation Hannah Gettings

The Problem Deforestation is a big ecological issue, today. We cut down trees for a variety of purposes: - wood for desks, shelves, construction, etc. - paper - more property for business, homes, etc. Picture of a tree

How Does This Affect Us, and Our Animals? This affects us because trees give us oxygen, and we will be lacking oxygen if we don’t have anymore trees. This affects our animals because some animals live in trees such as birds, and squirrels, so if we are constantly cutting down trees, we are destroying the homes of animals. Picture of an animal that lives in a tree

Some Other Facts About Trees A majority of paper comes from pine trees. The average tree can produce approximately 80,000 sheets of paper. If we recycle as much as we can, less trees would be cut down at one time and we would conserve their beauty!  Picture of trees

My Experiment I conducted an experiment that involves recycling, one of the best, easiest, and most common ways to help save trees. My experiment included a lot of recycling!

How My Experiment Worked… I made a table in my notebook that looks like this table right here My experiment was a 5 day process with a 6th day to organize data for my final conclusion. Day Whole Paper Half of a Paper Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Every time I recycled half of a paper I put a tally mark under Half of a Paper, and a tally mark under Whole Paper for every time I recycled a whole paper.

My Hypothesis… My hypothesis: If we make more of an effort to recycle more, we will be saving more trees by not wasting paper.

The Process Day 1 and 2- On these two days, you will do what you regularly do, but you will make a tally mark for every paper you recycle. Day 3 and 4- On these two days, you will go through all of your papers, whether they’re in files, folders, any papers you can find, go through them and see what you can get rid of. Any papers you don’t need, you will recycle them. Make a tally mark for every paper you recycle. Day 5- On this day, you will repeat what you did on the first two days of experimenting. Day 6- You will gather your data, find out how many pieces of paper you recycled each day total and make a bar graph from that information, then add those numbers together to get the overall number of papers you recycled. For your final conclusion- you will tell how many sheets of paper you recycled and an estimated fraction of how much of a tree you saved.

My Weekly Data Graph Day Whole Paper Half of Paper Sunday- May 1st I III Monday- May 2nd II Tuesday- May 3rd IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII Wednesday- May 4th IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII IIII III Thursday- May 5th

Day 6 Total number of papers recycled: 102 ½ Day 1- 2 ½ pieces of paper Day 2- 4 pieces of paper Day 3- 50 pieces of paper Day 4- 43 pieces of paper Day 5- 3 pieces of paper Total number of papers recycled: 102 ½

My Final Conclusion Over the week, I recycled a total of 102 ½ pieces of paper. An estimated fraction of how much of a tree I saved, using the information that a tree produces approximately 80,000 sheets of paper, is 1/800. When I recycle and when I make more of an effort to recycle, I save more trees with each piece of paper I recycle. This is just one week’s worth of recycled paper, and if I continue to recycle I will save paper, which would save more trees, and we wouldn’t be cutting down as much trees for need of paper!

Help stop timbering! 

Sources I Used For My PowerPoint http://www.northrup.org/photos/tree-dwelling/ http://inhabitat.com/scientists-discover-how-to-grow-plastic-on-trees/ http://www.tree-pictures.com/