TRASH WORKDAY Links:
Click HERE (or paste the link that follows) to get to the shared Google Doc folder called "Trash Project Workdays, 2017"
https://docs.google.com/a/austinisd.org/document/d/1bMfhUVZ-BTHrpTzg2MhX9hoCwZHjBCUWiGci24sHfuE/edit?usp=sharing
You will not be able to make edits until you open the google doc, make a copy, and rename following the instructions provided. Be sure to share the google doc with the project adviser assigned to supervise your field trip/build time.
Go to the Blend site to see the full Trash Project module.
Click HEREtrash_unit_overview_2017.doc to get to the WASTE UNIT PROJECT OVERVIEW.
Sample TED Talks to about waste management and creativity:
Most Popular Talks of All Time
We Can Recycle Plastic (Mike Biddle's TED Talk)
Sea of Plastic
Most Popular Talks of All Time
We Can Recycle Plastic (Mike Biddle's TED Talk)
Sea of Plastic
Read all about the UPCYCLE Component
Recycling means turning a product into a refurbished material that can be reused.
Upcycling means turning an unwanted product into a completely different product (hopefully of higher value).
Your goal for the upcycle product is to use your creativity to turn unwanted materials into a desirable product.
Here are a few details:
1) Your product might be practical, or it might be artistic. Either way, it should be ready for immediate use or
display. It should not still be in rough or "storyboard" form. Bring in an actual prototype on the Nov. 28/29 due date.
2) The upcycle product must have a new identity. For example, don't hot glue bits of t-shirt together in order
to make another t-shirt. Instead, brainstorm creative uses for cotton material that lead to a new, unexpected identity.
3) Each trash project should go through multiple steps in finding a new identity. Sticking a candle into a wine bottle and
calling it a candle holder? Putting a rope on a tire to make a tire swing? Putting a plant inside a styrofoam cup and
declaring it a decorative plant holder? All of these ideas only involve ONE step in altering identity. Your goal: take
the project through a minimum of four steps.
4) You may include other materials in the process of creating your upcycle product, but the product you were
assigned in Chemistry class must make up more than 50% of your final product.
5) Storyboard the product. PRODUCT STORYBOARD
Grades will be recorded on the storyboard, so make that planning document professional and detailed.
6) It IS okay to research upcycling ideas and create a project that you find online, as long as you modify or add things to the final product. Be sure to give creditto the original inventor of the idea or to the website where you found the idea. Add a paragraph to your storyboard explaining
the source of the idea and how you modified it.
7) The product must be accompanied by a product description in the form of a branding booklet or brochure. On this written
"tag," please include:
PRODUCT and BROCHURE RUBRIC
UPCYCLING WEBSITES:
Recycling means turning a product into a refurbished material that can be reused.
Upcycling means turning an unwanted product into a completely different product (hopefully of higher value).
Your goal for the upcycle product is to use your creativity to turn unwanted materials into a desirable product.
Here are a few details:
1) Your product might be practical, or it might be artistic. Either way, it should be ready for immediate use or
display. It should not still be in rough or "storyboard" form. Bring in an actual prototype on the Nov. 28/29 due date.
2) The upcycle product must have a new identity. For example, don't hot glue bits of t-shirt together in order
to make another t-shirt. Instead, brainstorm creative uses for cotton material that lead to a new, unexpected identity.
3) Each trash project should go through multiple steps in finding a new identity. Sticking a candle into a wine bottle and
calling it a candle holder? Putting a rope on a tire to make a tire swing? Putting a plant inside a styrofoam cup and
declaring it a decorative plant holder? All of these ideas only involve ONE step in altering identity. Your goal: take
the project through a minimum of four steps.
4) You may include other materials in the process of creating your upcycle product, but the product you were
assigned in Chemistry class must make up more than 50% of your final product.
5) Storyboard the product. PRODUCT STORYBOARD
Grades will be recorded on the storyboard, so make that planning document professional and detailed.
6) It IS okay to research upcycling ideas and create a project that you find online, as long as you modify or add things to the final product. Be sure to give creditto the original inventor of the idea or to the website where you found the idea. Add a paragraph to your storyboard explaining
the source of the idea and how you modified it.
7) The product must be accompanied by a product description in the form of a branding booklet or brochure. On this written
"tag," please include:
- the name of the product
- the purpose of the product
- your name (maybe a company name and logo?)
- the "ingredients" (all materials used)
- an explanation of what happens if the main trash item ends up in a landfill
- an explanation of time or space that is impacted by discarding this trash item
- a description of how to use the new product
- any citations for ideas or thank you's to helpers
PRODUCT and BROCHURE RUBRIC
UPCYCLING WEBSITES: