Make Your Change by Lucia Jaimes

About Us

diegomestre2930 — 2023-05-23 16:10:17 UTC

Make your change started on May 9th 2023, when a group of 11 year-olds decided to make a change in the world. This group started this project with one goal; to change people’s lives.

diegomestre2930 — 2023-05-23 16:11:51 UTC

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-05-23 16:12:19 UTC

Pollution destroys the world in different ways like global warming and petrolium in the sea. There is also giant garbadge patches and even green house gases going into the atmosphere. stop pollution or live on mars

We at ¨Make your Change¨ have been working on surveys to make people realize how much they pollute and how to change it. also we investigated and made slides about
articles that helped us reaserch.

Try Our Quiz!

diegomestre2930 — 2023-05-23 17:14:47 UTC

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeG9kbT9u8ebUvs4hV721YUF48ZU2QL48vKaWXl70uSpNVRFQ/viewform?usp=sf_link!!!

Look at our Video!

diegomestre2930 — 2023-05-24 15:52:41 UTC

Trash going into the water

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-05-24 17:14:51 UTC

When the trash goes into the water and ends up becoming garbage patches. There are 4 garbage patches in the world and the biggest is the great pacific garbage patch standing at 1.6 Million square kilometers.

Water pollution

diegomestre2930 — 2023-05-24 17:15:53 UTC

Water pollution is not only garbage in the ocean. As it is shown in the picture, petroleum and other toxic waste can produce type of pollution. Petroleum poisons the water, killing animals and other marine life.

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-05-26 17:49:49 UTC

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-01 18:08:59 UTC

Have you paid attention to pollution? Pollution can have different topics, for example pollution can be at the water, land, and even air meaning that if we continue littering our planet will be so contaminated and polluted that everything we eat and the air we breathe will be polluted. Also water Contamination will get more and more contaminated leaving animals with nothing to hydrate, this can have an effect on the whole food chain and leave animals with nothing to eat or drink. finally it would affect us leaving us without any food and the whole planet contaminated.

Pollution is a problem in the environment that causes lots of dangerous problems. It contains greenhouse gasses, contamination, petroleum and more. When air pollution goes so big it gets to the atmosphere and creates climate change. When it goes to the land it ends at the sea and when all that trash ends in one place it creates garbage patches at the sea. All the bad things that cause pollution are called pollutants, some can be even natural like volcanic ashes or being created by human activity like trash.

So many people ask what is air pollution? so air pollution is a problem in the environment that affects our planet and our air. It is caused by gasses and particles that are in the air. We are finding a solution to this problem. When we use a car or a truck we are burning gasoline. When we burn gasoline we send carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide into the air .

Water pollution has serious impacts in many ways by affecting ecosystems and food chains. These two are really important to maintain ocean species habitats and their diets. Water contamination affects us in different ways by leaving us with less to eat and more to spend for only a cup of clean water. Water can get contaminated in different ways, one of the most common contaminants is oil. Oil can travel through water contaminating it and killing animals. For example, animals that live on coral reefs eat that oil and die intoxicated. According to NewELA, this has happened along the northern California coast when Exxonmobil caused a tragic oil spill.

One solution is to use bicycles. Choosing bicycles over cars not only reduces air pollution it also brings more benefits to people and earth. When we ride bicycles we don’t need to pay for gasoline and parking, also when we ride bicycles it could connect us to nature and you could know new places of nature that you didn't know. Also air pollution is a dangerous problem that comes from car emissions, but by riding bicycles we can contribute to a solution for greenhouse gasses and all the gasoline going into the air.

A solution to water pollution might be to put your trash in its correct place. Such a small thing as putting your trash where it belongs might save tons of animals because each trash goes to different places. You should put your trash in the correct trash can, the recycling stuff into the recycling bin, the organic trash into the organic bin, and the real trash into the black bin. (most of the time it's black).

Thank you for reading and don't forget make your change

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-01 18:10:08 UTC

Water Audit

diegomestre2930 — 2023-06-01 18:13:46 UTC

This are the results to our water audit, we saved 57.5 gallons. we did this chart to compere results and see how much we could save. we realized we used so little water and never went up.

Water audit

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-01 18:14:20 UTC

This was the water audit we did for 2 weeks to see how much water do you use and how to reduce the amount you use. Every day for 2 weeks and in week two we tried to reduce the amount but it could be higher in my case it always went the same or smaller. On week one i just mesure the time triying to make it small but on week two i put i timer smaller that on week one so it was more like puting me goals

How Often Do You Use Your Car

diegomestre2930 — 2023-06-01 18:38:36 UTC

4% of people that answered the forms said that they never use their car which is good for the environment because that means the gases cars release are not sent into the environment. 20% of people sometimes use their car which is not good for the environment because they release gases that can poison the earth, the same thing goes to the 76% of people that use their cars often.

How Often Do You Recycle

diegomestre2930 — 2023-06-01 18:46:57 UTC

4% of people never recycle which is very bad for the environment, the same thing goes to the 24% of people that rarely recycle because that means that they throw their trash away into places that may not be the best. The 48% of people that sometimes recycle are helping the environment a little by not throwing part of their trash away. And the 24% of people that recycle often are helping the world.

Think 🤔 how to stop pollution

lizortiz2930 — 2023-06-01 18:49:45 UTC

To stop pollution we need to Reduce the number of trips you take in your car.Reduce or eliminate fireplace and wood stove use.Avoid burning leaves, trash, and other materials.
Avoid using gaspowered lawn and garden equipment

Drive your car less.
Keep your car in good repair.
Turn off water when they are not using it .
Don't burn your garbage.
Recycle ♻️ many materials
Plant and care for trees.

7. Turn off the lights and save electricity

M A K E   Y O U R   C H A N G E

Make your change

Do You Litter Often

diegomestre2930 — 2023-06-01 19:02:21 UTC

36% of people never litter which is great for the environment because you dont throw trash away that may take thousands of years do biodegrade. 28% of people rarely litter which is good, but they still litter, which is bad. 24% of people litter sometimes which is not good for the environment because the trash you throw away is poisoning the world. And 12% of people often litter which is terrible to the earth because plastic, cans, and whatever you throw is killing the earth.

Air Pollution

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-02 13:14:46 UTC

Air pollution is a huge problem in the moment, air pollution is poisoning the air that we breathe, and in a few years, we might end up not being able to breathe normally due to the pollution.

How Often Do You Waste Water

diegomestre2930 — 2023-06-02 13:23:12 UTC

24% of people never waste water which is very good because there is barely enough fresh water for all of us, so they are saving water. 48% of people rarely waste water which means that they are helping the environment by saving water in various ways; 16% of people sometimes waste water which is not good for the environment because even someone wasting 1 gallon a day, they can waste 356 gallons every year, which is very bad. And 12% of people often waste water which is very bad because with the limited fresh water, we shouldn't be wasting it at all.

How Often Do You Try To Shrink Pollution

diegomestre2930 — 2023-06-02 18:15:32 UTC

12% of people never try to shrink pollution which is not good because if we don’t shrink pollution, pollution is gonna get in every part of our oxygen and we wouldn't be able to breathe. 16% of people rarely try to shrink pollution which is not good for the environment because you should always try to shrink pollution. 48% of people sometimes try to shrink pollution which is good but they should do it more often because shrinking pollution is something you can do to save yourself and millions of other people. And 20% often try to shrink pollution which is amazing because the more you try to shrink pollution, the more time the earth is going to be habitable.

water pollution

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-04 01:32:26 UTC

Water pollution is casued by trash wich gets into the oceans, most of the time that trash is plastic. Plastic can be recycled easily if its separated. You can separate plastic easily by deposing it in the correct trash can.

One of the most dangerous contaminats is oil. Oil can spread through water easily by oil transportation accidents.

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-05 13:13:24 UTC

I did a river with lots of plants on it so the hydrosphere is the river the trees and alge are the litmosphere and the chicken and trees are the biosphere the clouds and air are the atmosphere. They connect by litmosphere going in the hidrosphere and two biospheres interacting.

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-05 13:13:41 UTC

This drawing is about earth system as you can see there are 4 systems the biosphere ,geosphere ,hydrosphere and atmosphere so a biosphere is a living thing like animals a atmosphereis like clouds a geosphere is like little mountines and a hydrosphere is like water .

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-05 13:13:59 UTC

This is one of our drawings. On this drawing you can see the four spheres of the earth, which are, the biosphere (Plants and animals), the Hydrosphere (the water), the atmosphere (oxygen), and Lithosphere (Earth). The lines show how the different spheres interact with each other.

Tips to stop water pollution

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-07 16:52:49 UTC

putting the trash on the trassh can helps a lot because it ends up in the sea.
when you are at the beach dont throw away at watever place because winds trows it to water.
use less your car because that is made with petrolium.

Tips to stop air pollution

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-07 17:02:28 UTC

also use less your car because that gasoline goes in the air and increases climate change
eat less factory food because making that a lot of gases and chemicals go on earths surfaces
not every one can do this but if you can it helps a lot making cows eat seaweed makes them to expulce gases softer so they dont produce much green house gases

Tips to stop land pollution

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-07 17:06:40 UTC

you can recycle and put things in the correct trash can
dont leave your dogs stinky poopy bag on the sreet

Relationships in between them

luciajaimes2930 — 2023-06-07 17:09:34 UTC

if you can notice all of them are related because human activity normaly makes it also throwing trash is bad for mostly everything and we are not helping so remember make your change