Primary+Research

=__Survey Questions__ =

1) Are you aware of how much toxic chemicals are in your water bottles?

2) How many times a week do you eat or buy packaged snacks (e.g. chips)?

3) Do you try to reduce the amount of packaging you use?

4) Do you throw away packaging a lot or try to conserve?

5) Do you consider packaging when you buy snacks?

6) Do you know how harmful packaging impacts the environment? If so, in what way does it harm the environment?

=__Primary Research__ =

Plan:
For our primary research, we are going to discover the amount of reusable and disposable packaging are in it by going up to the Primary Lunchroom during class time. And while the classes are eating, we would make a short speach to inform them to open there lunch boxes while we observe and tick of the graph we will use. Also, we will take pictures on the way and they would be put on this page as soon as possible.

How we are implementing it
We are going to look at students' lunch boxes to see how much reusable and disposable packaging is in it and take pictures of it.

Where it is being implemented
In the primary lunch room of Hong Kong Academy.

When it is being implemented
This week from Thursday~Monday
 * (11:10~11:50 Thurs.) Kindergarten
 * (11:30~11~50 Fri.) Grade 1
 * (10:05~10:35 Monday) Grade 2/Grade 3

Who is doing each part of the plan
Making the chart: Noah Writing the emails to teachers for permission of leaving to the lunchroom: Chloe Taking pictures:all members in the group. Checking and ticking off the chart: all members in the group.



__Kindergarten:__
Chloe: It went amazingly well, and we were just in time to get there before the K5s do. Although there was a bit frustration and the little ones were a bit confused, we did it without getting them all excited and jumping around the place. After taking some pictures, made my list of reusable packaging and dispossible packaging, I looked carefully at my list. Wow! I was amazed with some of the people who reuses //everything//, while the others disposses //everything//! That was a was quite a big difference with the ammount of packaging from both reusable and dispossible packaging (the number of dissposible ones were quite fairly higher than the other. :) Our mentor Ms. Rachel was on duty for the Grade 1 lunch (they have lunch before they have afternoon snack), so she helped us with getting the kids' attention and explained for us the 5 Ws (who, when, where, why,what). It took us a a shorter lengh of time after having the last experience. The others went as well as the others. =D

Juliana: I think doing our primary research with the grade 1s went really well. I had no idea that the Primary school used that much packaging. One thing I noticed was that like Chloe said, some kids had their whole snack wraped in packaging or no packaging at all. I hope that we have a better result on the other grades for our PRimary research. Also, that they would use less packaging.

Keith: I was surprised when searching through people's lunch-boxes because it gave me an idea of how much packaging even the younger kids use! I am surprised that their parents allowed them to use such poisonous objects to wrap their food. I was even more shocked when Juliana reported that one child had everything wrapped in plastic wrap. That child even had a juice box wrapped in plastic wrap! Next time we do this, if we will do this, I expect that the next group will have less plastic and disposable products inside of their lunches. I hope that Ms. Virginia gives this a thought.

Noah: On February 23 we did our primary research for our exhibition, our group is the packaging group. We’re looking at how much packaging the school is using by the students, in their lunches.

For our research we decided to go up to the lunch room to see how much packaging they were using in their snacks and lunches. We decided to tally how many students had disposable packaging and how many had reusable packaging. When we got up there, we spoke to the students about what we were doing. They were happy to help. We did what we needed to do, which was we looked at everybody's lunch boxes and then we were done. It took about fifteen minutes.

I felt that our primary research went well. Even though the kids were a little scared of us because they didn’t talk to us at all. I think the kids didn't like us being there. I think we got good results.

I think our team did well, we each had a job, and we executed it to perfection. I’m looking forward to what other things we will be doing.

Kevin: This activity turned out okay (thats what I think). It was actually pretty hard to tally people's lunches while they are staring at us. I think the k5's did better than the rest of the school. Like the people above said, some kids bring lots of packaging and some don't. It was like a complete opposite.





=Where we did primary research.=

We did our primary research in the lunchroom located on the top floor. We stayed there to watch over the kids. I think we did a overall great job at this. We acted mature. I think we gave a good example to what they should look like to the lower primary. We looked at their lunch boxes and told them what they should put into their lunch boxes. We also observed what kinds of trash they have in their lunch boxes.