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Littering PSA Blog Post

Posted by Juan Witmer in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 9:58 am

In our PSA we have incorporated statistics, pictures of litter in Philly and news articles and other resources. The reason why we choose this topic was that I knew that littering was a big thing and it is a problem that needs to be solved and drawn attention to. I saw this because littering is a pollutant and that pollutant goes into the environment and that isn’t eco-friendly. The thing that I was very happy about is how easy it was to work with each other and get something complete and finished on the deadline. Another high would be knowing my lines and doing the best of my ability. If we could improve next time I think we should have worked harder on talking about how the city of Philadelphia is affected by littering and what Philadelphia is doing currently on littering. Something that was meaningful was getting along with my group and making a good quality PSA. The thing I hope that our PSA does is to show awareness of littering and make people know what is a good PSA vs a bad PSA. Also to show that littering is bad.

The link to our PSA: https://youtu.be/LlldQrId1x4

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Posted by Tajaire William-Taylor in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 12:01 am

Reflection: Provide a summary of the contents of your video and a rationale for why YOU chose this topic, in paragraph form. Me and my group members chose this topic because it is very easy to fix but still continueing to spread.If the solution is to use a different paint or something like that then why are people still getting it in their household and more. Provide a reflection on how you contributed to the project and the role you played in the group. -I contributed to the project in many way such record and write the script, it was really a challenge. What did you do well and what could you have done differently? me and my group shouldve never rushed over our video because one of our partners wasnt here. What was the most meaningful part of the experience of creating the PSA? Making the video was pretty fun

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Oils spills benchmark

Posted by Kelly Wiggins in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:42 pm

Our video gives you knowledge on oil spills explaining what affects are of oil spills. Part of the reason I choose this topic is because I like animals and I know that a lot of animals typically are the ones that get affected by oil spills. especially since lots of animals are now becoming extinct. The way that I participated in the project is by doing additional research about oil, spills, I was in the video, and I helped with the idea. I think that the project went well and I believe all of the things I named I did well with I don't feel like I need to change anything. The most meaningful part of the experience of creating the PSA was actually making the video while reading out all the affects of oil spills I was really surprised about how many affects oil spills actually have.

https://youtu.be/XvchmxEROM0
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Psa

Posted by Nathanael White in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:15 pm

Me and my group did water pollution since it has become a big issue today that affects everything we do. I wanted to do this topic because I feel like it is important to inform the public on something that is in their control with every decision they make. For this project I brainstormed with my peers, helped edit the video and said a part in the video. I did my research well but one thing I could have done better was do more work in class instead of saving it for later. The most meaningful part of the PSA is how in the 1900s we were doing a very poor job, as a city, in keeping our water pure. Then we took strides to make it better and today we can see those modifications work well in our favor.

https://youtu.be/u18VO-45OJ0
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Pick It up philly !

Posted by Khaila Sundiyata in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:03 pm

Over the past few weeks, my partners and I have been doing research on the topic of littering and gathering information on the topic. We discovered that littering is a huge problem in the Philadelphia area. I recently found out that Philadelphia is one of the top-rated dirtiest cities in the country. The community needs to come together to try and better the environment. Every year the government pays over 10 billion dollars trying to clean up the streets not only in Philadelphia but in every city in the country. Littering is one of this generation's biggest problems aside from global warming. Most of the litter items are small things like cigarette butts, bottle caps, etc. In our video we interviewed and asked people what could be a possible solution to the littering problem in our community and most of the answers were to put more trash cans in place or raise the fines but our goal is to find a good solution and prevent littering from even happening.

https://youtu.be/oCsxVgH9f9w
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Water Pollution PSA

Posted by Daniel Hagos in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:02 pm

In the video, we talk about different types of water in the city and how they are contaminated by us humans. I picked this problem because when learning about water pollution previously to this.benchmark in your class I could see it is a major problem and needs to be heard by a PSA. Also with our combined knowledge from past and present research, we can produce a quality PSA. in this project I contributed by helping choose the topic, fleshing out ideas on what to record, and recording my part. I feel like I did good research on and learned a bit more from our other water pollution project. I also looked back on old assignments to see if I can salvage any extra information. I wish I had gone to a lake or river to get some footage but as the water around my area was not as contaminated as other parts of Philadelphia. The most meaningful part of the experience is just learning through research and statistics on how stuff that we deem as innocent can really take a toll on this planet and learn ways that we can prevent it.

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Littering PSA

Posted by Angel Rivera in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:00 pm

Our PSA has many different components to it such as various statistics, images of litter in Philadelphia (cred. to Catherine), a news interview on the littering problem in Philadelphia via Mayor Jim Kenney, a scripted PSA explaining the various negative effects of littering outside of Philadelphia, and a poem about littering (cred. to Kasai). I chose this topic because littering is a huge, huge problem in our city and needs to be addressed more. I was the director for most of the footage present and composed the video. One thing I am proud of is that I made sure everything was organized. I made sure everyone was on task and doing their role. If we did anything differently it would probably be focusing on our city more than the general world. The most meaningful part of creating the PSA was just the knowledge and awareness we were able to bring to everyone. Everyone litters so much and hopefully, our PSA can change the minds of our peers and cause them to walk to the nearest trash can.

https://youtu.be/LlldQrId1x4
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Air Pollution (PSA)

Posted by Elena Webber in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 11:00 pm

For this units benchmark, we were tasked to focus on a certain form of pollution to then create a public service announcement (PSA) to better inform the public (our community) on the effects and solutions they have. Frankly, I had not been in during the decision of what our topic would be, but I had no problem with doing it on air pollution, which is what our team chose. Now, initially, for our PSA, we had intended on adding a section of interviews we did with some of our young family members, however, with technical issues, it was not able to take part in our PSA. Instead, it opens with a PSA of air pollution that dates back to 1968. It was important for me to add this in the beginning to show how much worse it’s all gotten since their attempt to stop it/lessen its severity. From then on, with facts and videos of actual air pollution, we explain how worse it’s gotten since, and its impacts on other things that are dire for our survival. Finally, we end things off with a solution of simply just having people take more action in what they want to change. In the 1968 video they took this approach as well, having people rise up, but seeing how the youth has widely taken over when it comes to protesting in our generation, we found it to be just as relevant to tell the people of today’s world.

For this project I’d say my biggest contribution was doing the video. With the voices of everyone in the group, I was able to put together an informative and visually appealing PSA to show off the work we did for the past quarter. Additionally, I helped find many different clips ahead of the video in preparation, added certain facts (for my voice in portion), and organized the scripts order. The one thing I do find that I could’ve done better, was the effort put in on the facts. While yes we had a sufficient amount of them to use for the video, some didn’t quite make sense and that’s because of me speeding up the process. What I did well in was video production and collaboration with others in our group, having things communicated with each other especially. The most meaningful part of creating this PSA was definitely just learning as I created the video. To see the actual hundreds of videos that would pop up as I looked for content was very eye opening frightening. It’s important to see these things though, sure facts are very ‘eye opening’ as well, but when you see those many people, plants, animals, etc. living through worse air conditions than we are, in America, it’s just very compelling, you WANT to make a change. And for me, I really wanted to evoke that feeling with our PSA video, so I hope I did just that.

Below is a link to our PSA video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2opvC9Awf1I

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Water Pollution PSA

Posted by Emily Cajamarca in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 10:52 pm

For this project, we were given the task to create a PSA on a topic that we were given. My group did water pollution since it has become a big issue today that is talked about alot. We see it everywhere but many don’t do much about it, this is something that affects all of us. The water we drink can come from a place that is polluted and not taken care of which is very dangerous, so we decided to make a video about it. I helped research about water pollution in Philadelphia that can be put into our video. Something I would have done differently is to put some more information about how it affects us politically. I guess the meaningful part is to be able to make a video about our city’s water pollution because I don’t think many know what had happened when our water was unfiltered.

https://youtu.be/u18VO-45OJ0
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How Litter Affects the Environment

Posted by Kasai Lamartiniere in Environmental Science · Sasso-Chryst · A s1 on Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 10:46 pm

Our video mostly discusses the hazardous effects of littering through some simple and somewhat comedic acting. In it, we have a person attempting to litter only to be stopped and given a broad explanation as to what he's doing to the environment. We also discuss the effects of litter over the environment, animals and even politics through the use of some small visuals. We also chose to talk about littering since it's one of the biggest environmental hazards in our city. Philadelphia is actually known to be the fourth filthiest city in America mostly due to litter so we thought it would important to discuss how much litter is affecting the very city that we live in and how political and economic measures are being taken to deal with the situation. As for the actual process of the project, I mostly assisted by writing many of the lines in the script as well as a small poem to discuss our topic with. I also helped in acting out some of the scenes for our PSA. However, despite all of this we still could've done better at making a video that met the five-minute mark, but we assumed that we were fully prepared only to find out at the last minute that we were still one minute short. Despite this, I suppose that it was still meaningful to present what we learned in the form of a video that would use words and visuals along with some comedic acting to get viewers invested in our topic, while also learning important information from it.

https://youtu.be/LlldQrId1x4
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