Energy Fluency Project

Dear Honourable George Heyman,

I have been researching about automobile smog and what its affect on the earth including its affect on our health, a solution, and if electric cars are beneficial to decrease air pollution. I have learnt that there are many affects that many people may not know about and how bad car pollution has done to the earth and humans. Although I did learn that EV cars is an alternative for gas running vehicles, its still will cause many problems for the earth and us people. Many people can start to make a difference right now by taking public transit, biking, walking, or carpooling to your destination. it will reduce the amount of cars on the road creating less exhaustion in the air. Lastly, auto mobile smog will cause many problem to our health. If we continue to ruin the earth, we will also ruin ourselves such as heart and lung disease. I believe that we need to act fast by using alternatives before its too late and hope that we can all contribute to create a healthier future.

 

 

1) What questions did you need to research in order to create your sway? 

ASK

Questions I needed to research in order to create my sway was to ask specific questions such as

  • What does car pollution do to our health?
  • What are solutions to reduce automobile smog?
  • Are electric cars better?

2) What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?

ACQUIRE

Some new digital tools I tried to use was Sway and Gale Engage. Ive never used sway before and it was pretty easy to use but for Gale Engage it was kind of tricky to find exactly what you were looking for.

3) What was the process you used to investigate the topic and how did you verify and cite the information you found?

ANALYZE

The process I used to investigate the topic was to read up on Gale Engaged because it is a trusted website and a lot of the facts are true. How I verify and cite the information was to scroll to the bottom of the article and then copy and paste the MLA citation into a separate word doc so I can put it into alphabetical order at the end.

4) How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better

ASSESS

The process of completing this challenge was difficult because I didn’t have good start since I was very new to using both Gale Engage and Sway so it was challenging to read up on information that I could use in my Sway. What I could’ve done better was to try harder to read more information because it was hard for me to find but if I spent a little more time maybe I could’ve wrote more.

 

 

Electric House

Define: A problem in my electric house is that we didn’t have anywhere to put our battery. We would have to hold the battery for it to turn on the light because our wires that connect to the battery were at the top of our house. We wanted our battery to be functional without having to hold it up every time because that was just inconvient. We didn’t have another problems in our house because the wires were tucked in how we liked it it was just the battery that was the main issue. The battery was also heavy so we needed something stable to hold it in place.

Dream: Some of ours idea to solve this problem was to 3D print a battery holder, tape the battery to the box, cut a hole in the box to place on the top floor, and build a room in the back to hide our wires and battery. Some of the ideas we had were a bit to advanced so we didn’t even count it as an option. The other ideas were good we just didn’t have enough time and they would the most efficient. we decided our design choices would be hot glued to the back of the box and it would be more stable then taping just the battery directly on the box.

Deliver: The solution we made to fix our problem was to 3D print a box to hold our battery. This design will keep the battery stable and in place so would no longer have to hold it by hand. We would start first by making a design on our computer and then print it out. Next we would hot glue it to the back for it to stay put. And then it should hold the battery in place to connect to the other wires.

Debrief: The process we had to go through t0 make our box for our battery was to come up with a design for it to work. We had trouble with the sizing but we made it work. We also had to wait 3 hours for the 3D printing to finish. 

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