The Horse 2019/20

Technology & Environment

Jewellery sharing

Hello everybody,

Our idea is to share the expensive jewellery. With this sharing method everyone can save money and resources as well. The best way to share would be a website. You can post a picture and if someone is interested in the jewellery they can borrow it for a certain time. 

Best regards,

Anja and Maria

Project idea: knowledge-sharing

Hello everybody,

We would like to share our interesting project idea, which is "knowledge-sharing".

What is knowledge-sharing?

The idea was to share the knowledge during an exam for example. Students should write exams together and talk about their knowledge. The result would be much better and the students would get a mark as a team. This would also be good for the teamwork.

 

Best regards,

Deniz and Maria

Project idea sharing economy: digitalization

Nowadays digital archiving is a big topic. A lot of companies try to work paperless. Some of them are more advanced in this process than others. Companies try to keep dossiers online, a lot of exams are taken on the computer and for example the "schweizerische Bundesbahnen" (SBB) try to support the online purchase of their ticket in order to keep them on the mobile phone to avoid printing paper. This method is very ecofriendly.

In my opinion digitalization is a current topic which is very important, especially for our economy. I am confronted with it everyday, for example at work or at school. But digitalization can also be negative for our environment, because I've also heard about the fact, that energy can't just be reduced. That's why I'm very interested in this topic and why I would like to deepen my knowledge about it.

 

Best regards,

Maria 

 

 

Step 5 - reflection

Hello everybody

Our project is drawing to a close. In order to that we would like to do a reflection and talk about the teamwork and how we experienced it.

 

We've chosen a project, which we thought would be very interesting. That's why we felt very motivated from the beginning. We researched a lot about the topic and we talked a lot with our family and friends. That's how we got all the knowledge to this project. The teamwork was great. We often split up the work and if we had any questions, we could always ask one another. In order to that, we had to trust each other, especially in relation to our english-skills. We both are at the same english level and that's why it was fun to work with each other. Occasionally we had different opinion. Maria for example wanted to live vegan for one week, while Deniz thought vegan would be enough. But in the end, we always found a solution, which made both of us happy. That's what we think is extremely important while working in a team.

Sometimes we had time issues, as we also had a lot to do with the other school subjects. As well, we had to write our graduation work, which took us a lot of time. But as well, we managed it to create a project that we're very happy with.

 

Best regards, Deniz and Maria

Step 4 - shape and create

Today we put all the researches and interviews together to one text. Now we're almost ready to publish our post. But before this step, we want to shape the post by correcting some grammar mistakes and by forming the sentences correctly. To shape it, we wrote an introduction at the beginning of our post.

 

We're very happy to see how our post is getting created step by step and how far we are now. Now we're getting closer to the end of our project.

Best regards,

Deniz and Maria

Experience - Step 3

We quickly realized how important communication is in a teamwork. The goal was to work together with our team members in India, which unfortunately was not achieved in the beginning because it was difficult to establish contact. Therefore we had to start alone. We both could throw in our ideas, discuss and show our own strengths. Since there were "only" the two of us in the end, we quickly got into stress, because we lost a lot of time. Nevertheless we managed to find and write down the necessary information. Also the survey with the family went without any problems.

What did we learn regarding teamwork during this time?

  • Time management is very important
  • In order for the team to work, we have to listen to the other person and also accept other opinions
  • In teamwork there is a give and take, i.e. the tasks must be divided fairly and attention must be paid to each other

Of course we found out a lot of interesting facts and information about our topic. The post will be published soon.

Imagination step 1 in a hundred years

Hello everyone,

We will talk about the impact on climate by food. We've posted the imagination step 1 an now we will think about how it well look like in a hundred years.

 

First of all we need to imagine what we will eat in a hundred years. Did we change our eating habits because of our climate, because there are no animals left or because of cultural change? In our opinion we will have changed our eating habits because of the climate. At this time the meat production will still exist but it will be reduced enormous and we will eat more insects than nowadays. Insects can replace beef, pork and chicken, because of their high amount of energy and protein. In addition eating insects would be better for our environment, because we don't have too give them food as we have to do with cows, pigs and chickens. Furthermore there will be less vegetables and fruits, because our climate will change and the import will be more difficult because of the co2 emission.

Best regards,

Deniz and Maria

Our goals for today - 29th of November 2019

Impact on climate by food

In this two lessons we are going to finish our research for 20 minutes. After researching, we are going to exchange the results. We might have our conversation with Ms. Suter about how far we are during these lessons. Until the end of the second lesson we would like to have the questionnaire for the interview ready. We thought about a municipality, for example Bülach, Winterthur or Zürich. During the research, we might find some other contact points to do the interview with.

 

Best regards and have a nice day. 

 

Deniz and Maria