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Toxic City Infographic

Posted by Mercedes Blades in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
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This topic really educated me because I was unaware of how much lead poisoning was surrounding where I live. I also didn't know how much of an impact the effects of lead poisoning had on kids who were exposed to it. I think the most interesting part was having to research a specific spot in Philadelphia and learning about it because it allowed us to learn about important things in a place of our choosing. Researching this also taught me a lot about the city I live in. I'm still wondering if there's any other solutions or if there is a quicker solution to solving this issue.    

Toxic City Infographic

Posted by Ivana Gutierrez in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
I learned something new from this assignment. I never knew that Philadelphia was the highest city with the highest percentage of lead. I also learned that lead is mostly in the poor neighborhoods or low income neighborhoods. What stood out to me was it's mostly towards children because they eat the paint. I believe that the landlords should replace the paint. I wonder if the number of children keeps on increasing is there going to be a solution to this. 
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Toxic City Reflection

Posted by Tyrone Grant in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
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What stood out to me the most in this article is just how Philadelphia leads all cities in lead poisoning. During the Q1 Benchmark, I've seen multiple sources with headlines relating to lead poisoning in Philly, but never really knew the details. According to the article, many victims of the poisoning are children which is the biggest concern about the problem. I wonder how long it will take for the lead poisoning to be taken care of so that people who live in areas of poverty are no longer exposed.

Toxic Philly Infographic - Zach Bauman

Posted by Zachary Bauman in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
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Over the course of this project, not only did I learn about the lead issue in our city, I learned that I could have very easily been one of the people affected by it. I also learned that most of the neighborhoods with lower income have a greater problem with this issue, whereas the higher income areas of Philly are not at as high of a risk. I found that interesting, yet unsurprising, because of course the richer areas have the money to take care of the problem, but the poorer ones do not.

Lead Poisoning Infographic

Posted by Alyssa Straface in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
​Here is the link to my group's infographic.
Throughout the creation of this project, two things really stood out to me. The first was the alarming amount of high lead in housing areas. I can't believe that I did not know about this issue prior to creating this project; its affects on the city are very alarming. The second thing which stood out to me is the fact that the lead tastes sweet, almost like candy, to the children. I wonder what property in the lead causes this. I would be interested in conducting further research to figure that out. Overall, I just hope that this issue will be resolved soon before more families are affected.

Toxic City Infographic

Posted by Queren Villegas in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
Infographic: https://infogram.com/toxic-city-info-graphic-1gew2v48n0y12nj


The process of making this infographic come together was really fun. Due to quarter one's benchmark and the research I was required to do, I had beforehand knowledge on the lead issue taking place in Philadelphia. This assignment helped me further my understanding of how big the issue truly is and how badly it's affecting Philadelphia and it's residents. Lead is a critical issue that needs attention to save future generations from the sad setbacks it has already caused kids of today, such as having difficulty speaking and developing in their growth. Causing for many to require therapy for these issues. It is clear it has worsened because of both our city and it's residents. I learned a lot about lead through the process of completing the reading and collaborating with other classmates to present so said information in a composed way. The article was eye-opening on such issue that much more should be aware of. 

Toxic City Infographic

Posted by Janelle Fields in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
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During this Unit we read Toxic City which explained the dangers and misfortunes of lead in homes all around Philadelphia. This is a very overlooked situation that is continuously occurring in various parts of the city. What stood out to me most was seeing zip codes that were so familiar, ones that I encountered everyday including our school. The side effects of lead in children was also very astonishing and sad. Overall, I think awareness should be raised because many people, including myself before I read this article, have no idea how serious these cases are. 

Cell Phone Use

Posted by Sereina Williams in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · a2 on
The purpose of this project is to be more conscious of your own cell phone use as it relates to the research around learning,brain function and addiction. To stop cell addiction and multitasking I think students should turns off their phones during class,put your phone on silent when doing your homework, and finding else to do when your bored instead of going on your phone. The whole classroom was told to download a app called, " Checky".We have to use that find how many times we check our phone over the course of two days.Then after,we finished the power point ans spreadsheet we had to fill out a survey to show our experiences of learning about multitasking and cell phone addiction.

Cellphone Use Project

Posted by Kamaiyah Jackson in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · a2 on

We were instructed to do a project on the cell phone use of or 9th grade class. After my research for this project I feel as though my peers are addicted to their cell phones. We probably should ease up on our use of them. Here’s what we can do about our addiction,move your phone away from you while you sleep,turn off when during conversations,and no phone zone.To collect our data each 9th grader with a phone recorded how many times they checked their phone for two days. We then put it in a chart with a that the whole 9th grade could see.

Cell Phone Use Project

Posted by Daniel Jones in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · a2 on
  1. ​The purpose of this project was to compare my phone use to my peers and reflect on my phone use as well as my peers and how multitasking cell phone addiction affect peoples lives.

  2. What I have learned from the data is that some individuals phones take up quite a big portion of their lives. Such as texting while doing homework the most common answer shows that you are putting your phone before your school work and this can lead to some lower scores or hinder performance. Also from the information I learned that social media is one of the top used programs on a phone as from the data I found that 20 people out of the 83 used Instagram most of the time one of the top social media sites in the world.

  3. I want to keep my addiction to my cell phone at a minimum and the article Addicted to Your Mobile Phone? Five Ways to Beat Your Addiction really helped me plan my day so it would not rely on my phones as much as I did before. I want to create a schedule to start off so each day I can reduce my cell phone usage to lower levels. Some tips I found from the website are as list:

  • Don’t use your phone directly in the morning or while you are going to sleep breaking you out of your habit and fear of notification.
  • Trying different things such as reading, drawing, or making hobbies.
  • Talk to a friend or family member in real life distracting you from those notification and constant anxiety.

We collected data in the chart by all the ninth grade classes filling out a form with their information to be put in a single chart as shown by the chart linked below. 

My link to the data that was collected.


Toxic City We Live IN.

Posted by Tykeiah Martin in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
Throughout this research of Toxic's in Philadelphia referring to what is commonly know in poverty is "Lead Poisoning. Which usually has an effect on children who are more capable of eating something they're unaware of. I thought it was interesting that it was said in our article that the paint can sometimes taste like "candy". That can be found very hazardous. Let alone, I wanted to know is there a  we can fundraise money. Maybe inside of our community to come to a sense of justice. For their to be new paint being used on homes, that is not capable of harming our children.
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Cell Phone Use Project

Posted by Fabiana Cajamarca in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · a2 on
The goal of this project was to look at how teenagers use their phone, how much they use them, and how to improve how much you use it. In the data that I saw, many students use their phone and check it a lot during the course of one day. I discovered that many people use their phone for social media. The data included many different numbers and different kinds of information. Some tips to improve how much you use your phone are to put your phone on do not disturb so that you don't know when you get a notification. Also you can turn your phone off so that you can do other things. 

This data was collected by students entering their own data into the chart. Students filled out a form about their phone use. They tracked how much they used their phone for over two days using an app. Then put it into the chart so that the whole ninth grade can compare and analyze the data. 

Cell Phone Addiction Project

Posted by Davina King in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · a2 on
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The goal for this project is to be more conscious of my own phone as it relates to research around learning, brain function and addiction. Many students check their phones a lot. In many cases students think they check their phones as much as other students. This may not be good because they are not checking their phones for educational purposes. Or they are multitasking so it takes them longer to do the work, or they may have false information on the work. A few things that can help students brake their addiction is to turn their phones off. Put their phones away while in class. And put their phones on silent. The 9th graders used an app on their phones to see how many times they unlocked their phones. Click here to see data.


Cell Phone Usage

Posted by Lauren Martinez in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · a2 on

This project was about cell phone usage/addiction and multitasking.

The goal of this project is to be more conscious of your own phone use as it relates to research around learning, brain function, and addiction.

Students in my grade use their phones way more than we think and I do now believe that teens are overly addicted to their phones, before I thought that us teens didn’t use our phones how parents exaggerated that we did now from this project I see we are addicted to our phones. A few tips I have to cut down on phone usage is:

  • Once in awhile just put your phone down and take in your surroundings.
  • At dinner put your electronics away and conversate with family.
  • Instead of always bringing your phone with you when you go out with friends, just leave it behind.

Click here to see the data. This data was collected by students doing a survey on their phone usage.

Multitasking and Cell phone use

Posted by Aniya Uqdah in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · e1 on

This project is about Multitasking and Cell phone addiction. All the streams and myself made a spreadsheet about how many times we have checked our phones over the last few days. What we do most of the time on our phones and focusing on homework or any other things the student would do while they are on there phone while we are on our phones. Here is where I got my data from.

Cell Phone Addiction and Multitasking

Posted by Kyla Williams in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · e1 on
During this unit we learned about multitasking and cell phone addiction and how the two relate.The purpose of this project was to gather data on how many times we checked our phones over the last two days. In conclusion multitasking and cell phone addition are related. You can't multitask it slows you down and doesn't help you complete your work. The next step you can make is to try to not multitask with your phone.

cell phone addiction and multitasking

Posted by Wubishet Taye in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · e1 on
The main idea of the project is about multitasking and cell phone usage. How much we spend our time checking our phones and what does that mean.  What is multitasking, how does it relate to cell phone addiction and what it can do to our time. The project goal is to gather data on cell phone usage using Google sheet and the checky app that collects the amount of times we checked our phones. I came up with a conclusion that being addicted to your cell phone can also cause you to multitask on 2 or more things at once and that can cause more time to finish all the work. One thing you should do when you know that your addicted to your phone is to turn off your phone or tell someone to hide it so you can do things that are more productive.

Surviving Cell Phone Addiction

Posted by Brianna Bolden in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · e1 on

The Purpose:
In this project I will compare multitasking and cell phone addiction to determine how all of my peers’ use their phone daily. My peers’ downloaded an app called Checky to see how much they checked their phones. 

My Conclusion:
In conclusion, research and my personal findings prove that it is not hard to get addicted to your phone. You might not even notice it. People feel the need to constantly check their phone because their is something in our brain called dopamine in our brain that gives us a feeling of a need to do something. Dopamine makes humans happy and is let out when we all check our phones because of the content on it.

The Next Steps:
  • Delete any apps that you don’t need and you know makes you constantly check your phone.
  • Sign up for other activities that will occupy you 
  • Get an actual alarm clock.
  • Turn off ALL notifications.
  • Put your phone away and turn it off in class, meetings, etc.

Cell Phone Addiction & Multitasking Benchmark

Posted by Anna Desouza in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · e1 on
​Today I will be comparing my cell phone use date with other students’ data. Then seeing how it relates to multitasking and cell phone addiction!
 In conclusion, I discovered that most kids multitask in some kind of way. Also, like I said before I think I fall somewhere in the middle of the whole grades data because I do use my phone enough that it’s not a really low amount of checks but yet it’s not as high as some of the other kids. I think that most kids do multitask a lot and might have an addiction which affect them in some way. For example, the work that they do while multitasking won’t be as good as if it was done one at a time.
I think some kids need to work on trying to do more things without their phones like homework. As well as limit their cell phone usage and working on not multitasking by of course spending time away from their phones.

Cell Phone Use project

Posted by Najla Anderson-Williams in Intro to Tech and Comp App · Hertz · e1 on
The purpose of this project is that to track and see how long  we check our phones that was a lot of times . Next is that how we can see each other data because we check our phones a lot.In conclusion I discovered that us as students we check our phones because we have apps like instagram and snapchat because us as the 21 century we use our phones a lot .  

Toxic City Infographic

Posted by Michael Tran in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
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There seems to be a correlation between lead poisoning and poverty. And lead poisoning prevention agencies lack the funding required to help children. This problem is similar to segregation. Though black and white communities can live together now. Most choose not to. The white flight, which started near the 1960s, is still happening now. Apparently, the neighborhood is too "dangerous"; however, these people are just racist. The tax money goes to another neighborhood. And the poor, who are left behind, have less money to spend on housing and schools.