Grade 8 Final Project

How can we solve the issue of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and who is
responsible?
You have learned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that is floating in the middle of
the Pacific Ocean. You have been selected by the United Nations (UN) to develop a
strategy of how to not only remove, but recycle all the litter floating in our oceans. You
must present your findings at a Showcase on June 17-19, 2015 at St Kateri School.
You must present the Science portion of this assignment in a Science Report with a
prototype to the committee.
Guiding questions;
1. What is the approximate volume of litter in the litter island?
2. How much can fit on an average cargo ship?
3. How many ships it takes to transport the garbage?
4. What is the cost to transports the garbage?
5. Create the 2D to 3D net of the ship
6. How long will it take to get rid of garbage, garbage, garbage, all
the garbage?
7. Use coordinate grids to show port to garbage area to country to recycling
building (using pythagorean theorem)
8. Build two boats out of the triangular, rectangular, prisms and cylinders and
cubes. Then calculate the surface area of both boats.
9. Garbage patch rectangular, as you take the garbage away. which will take
more away
10. Cargo part of the ship can be either rectangular or cylinder
11. What would you do with the litter once it is out of the ocean?
12. Are there recycling plants in a coastline city along the Pacific Ocean?
13. Is there a coast to recycling at the plants?
14. Where is the island? Are there more than 1 garbage patches?
15. How deep does it go?
16. How can you extract it safely, without leaving a carbon footprint?
17. Have you created a blueprint & prototype?
18. Have you developed a prototype?
19. How much did the prototype cost?
20. How much would the actual machine cost?
21. Who/ Which countries would be responsible for the cost of this project?
22. Why?
23. Which country/ies would be responsible for actually building the
prototype?
24. Which country/ies would be responsible for the labour of this project?

25. Have you tested your prototype at least 3 times in the model ocean?
26. Have you recorded your results in a Science Report?
27. Have you completed a thorough conclusion of your findings explaining the
pros & cons?

Presentation Criteria
Students are prepared & organized to present on Wednesday, June 17th.
- Presentation order will be determined with a random draw
Students have incorporated various technology tools for their presentation;
- Prezi, Googleslides, youtube links, video/ movies of experiments, wordles/ word
clouds/ animoto, glogster, charts, diagrams, pictures, etc
Presentation notes are prepared & organized to ensure the information is covered & flows
Students present professionally
If presenting in partners, each students is actively involved in the presentation
Students are able to answer questions with ease

MAth 8
- Bidding for the garbage removal contract to the Dragons Den
- Each dragon has their own agenda for why they would pick the presentation.
- Million dollar goes to the best justification.
- They have criteria that they have to meet.
- Figure out the boats
- Cargo holders are cylinders and rectangular and triangular prism
- Salary, time, distance, cost, pollution
- Estimate cost, budget of million dollar.
- 2 Graphs, 4 things in the chart. Have 2 good things about each chart, the
students pick which chart they want and justify why they pick that chart.
- Three ports, three boats (trianglar, rectangualr and cylinder cargo holds)
- Final answer at the end- How long will this take and how much.
- Dump size in certain areas.
Step 1:
Speed for both boats- different speeds
Volume (give dimensions) for both boats- different volume
Start at point A - give them a map
Stage A on the shore travelling to the garbage patch- straight line
Step 2; Storm/current for a certain time
Faster boat can only go of the speed during the storm
Bigger boat can go of the speed during the storm.
One as a percent, one as fraction.
Smallest triangle has the biggest storm/current
Second triangle has a smaller storm/current
Step 3; Get to the a garbage patch
Travel to point B- (city) travelling on the hypontense.
Current against the boat in opposite directions (integers)

Step 4: Get to port C arrival

Go to recycling plant D, then going to garbage dump E
65% is only recyclable
35% needs to go to the dump
Area of the park is 102 meters2
Step 5:

Flat Fee for recycling, then $ per kg for any extra recycling. (Algebra)

Variables:
Salary, time, distance, cost, pollution
Groups:
Assessing the individuals in the groups
Benchmark:
Can each kid do this part of the benchmark
Self and Peer evaluations
UN Council EPA
Math Rubric
Total Cost
Gas (boat, truck)
Salary (boat captain x2, truck driver)
Time
Time it takes to go to the garbage patches
Time it takes to drive to the recycle plant and return
Time to complete the clean up from the ocean

Presentation Criteria
Students are prepared & organized to present on Wednesday, June 17th.
- Presentation order will be determined with a random draw
Students have incorporated various technology tools for their presentation;
- Prezi, Googleslides, youtube links, video/ movies of experiments, wordles/ word
clouds/ animoto, glogster, charts, diagrams, pictures, etc
Presentation notes are prepared & organized to ensure the information is covered & flows
Students present professionally
If presenting in partners, each students is actively involved in the presentation
Students are able to answer questions with ease