Communicatie-uiting/actie
Finding out the bin needs in the school
A group of students in the Litter & Waste Theme
- Welke tips wil je andere Eco-teams geven over communicatie van jullie Eco-Team?: Try to tell other students as you are doing this so that they stop littering
- Wat was het doel van deze communicatie-actie en wie wilde jullie bereiken?: For our service activity, my group and I are going to help stop people from littering. What we will be doing is that we will put posters on walls and lamps above garbage disposals telling them to stop littering and throw the garbage in the bins. This idea came because we see garbage on the streets almost everywhere and so people would either step on a can with a drink in it or they would forgetfully throw away candy wrappers or drop cigarette butts on the floor. This is horrible for the environment and so this is why my group and I are making posters directing people to the nearest garbage disposals so they won’t litter. The posters will tell the people what would happen if they litter. So our plan is to hang the posters in the school and in neighborhoods putting the posters on a wall or lamp and to get people's awareness just so they could help the environment by not littering anymore. For our three learning outcomes, we picked: Global Value, Collaboration and Initiative. We picked Collaboration because we expect to work together on putting up the posters, promoting our idea and if we put them in larger places, we will have to do it in groups. We have shown initiatives because even though people throwing away trash is common, we have never seen people making posters showing where the nearest trash can is. We are showing Global Value by raising awareness by people so they help keeping this planet safe and by telling others not to litter. It may be a simple idea, but if it works, it will definitely change how often people will throw away their trash and by helping the environment move further. Activity Aim The aim of our project is to promote throwing away trash to our community and all the other communities. We hope by doing this there will be a decrease of trash being thrown on the ground. After the 2-month long project in February, where we will be picking up trash twice a week for 8 weeks. We hope that the school and the surrounding communities will be cleaner and that they stay clean.
- Hoe hebben jullie dit georganiseerd/met wie?: A group of students in Litter & waste, we are in the same class at South East campus
- Onderwijstype: Voortgezet onderwijs
- School: Amsterdam International Community School (AICS)
Plastic Bottle Drive
A group of students from the Litter & Waste Theme
- Welke tips wil je andere Eco-teams geven over communicatie van jullie Eco-Team?: Find a good spot for collection and encourage people not to buy bottles just for this purpose but to bring bottles they have anyway and maybe to ask friends and neighbours to save theirs too.
- Wat was het doel van deze communicatie-actie en wie wilde jullie bereiken?: This project is together with the Eco-Club. This project consists of us collecting plastic bottles from students in the school. We will collect the bottles by writing an announcement on the newsletter and sharing it with our classmates. there will be a price involved with whoever brings the most plastic bottles. After having collected enough plastic bottles we will be creating a box/bin out of the bottles. The purpose of the box is to be a recycling box where people can put plastic in, which will then be recycled. Our goal for this project is to recycle more plastic and make our information more eco-friendly. My learning outcomes for this project are collaboration, ethics and awareness. We chose collaboration because we will be collaborating in a group to make this project happen. We then chose awareness because we will become more aware of the amount of plastic used by our community . We chose ethics because this sasa project can help show people how much plastic is used and how much plastic can be recycled.
- Hoe hebben jullie dit georganiseerd/met wie?: A group of other students from the Litter & Waste group, we got the whole primary and secondary school at all three campuses to collect bottles!
- Onderwijstype: Voortgezet onderwijs
- School: Amsterdam International Community School (AICS)
Litter Picking at Ams Zuid Station
Each of us contributed to the organisation, we are all in the litter and waste theme of the Eco-Club and are in the same class.
- Welke tips wil je andere Eco-teams geven over communicatie van jullie Eco-Team?: Make sure to have gloves or litter-pickers!
- Wat was het doel van deze communicatie-actie en wie wilde jullie bereiken?: People use the area usually for their everyday traveling to school work and home. We have noticed that since it is such a busy and crowded environment that it is often dirty and littered. To make this important location a cleaner and more welcoming environment, we have decided that it is up to us to clean up. We plan to go to the Zuid Metro Station once a week between 11:00 and 11:45 for 6 weeks. We plan to start on the 21st of October 2021 and end on the 25th of November 2021. From this action, we hope to inspire initiative among others and to help recognize that we need to take care of our planet. We will recognize the impact we will create once we start picking up trash because people who walk by will be encouraged to also pick up trash. We also know that this is the right decision to make because our planet is currently dying due to global warming and climate change. Activity Aim: The aim of this project is to clean up Station and pick up the trash around the area. Since station Zuid is the main area for public transportation in the area of Amsterdam Zuid, it is used by tourists as well as locals(workers and school children) it needs to be welcoming to people around the area.
- Hoe hebben jullie dit georganiseerd/met wie?: A group of students from the Litter & Waste theme organised this together
- Onderwijstype: Voortgezet onderwijs
- School: Amsterdam International Community School (AICS)
Repurposing School Furniture
A group of 6 students in the Community theme.
- Welke tips wil je andere Eco-teams geven over communicatie van jullie Eco-Team?: Don't eat much beforehand, it's not nice cleaning off chewed-gum!
- Wat was het doel van deze communicatie-actie en wie wilde jullie bereiken?: "We will be repurposing school furniture so that we are able to move it into the new school looking clean and as new as possible. We have already made posters that will be hung around the school in order to ask students to not mess the tables and chairs even more. We will be doing all of the furniture (chairs and tables) from the second floor. This relates to a need in the community as we as a school must make sure our furniture is clean for the new school, meaning we will be able to enter a new building with clean furniture ready for a new school year. This will also save a lot of trees as we will not need to buy more furniture for the new school." The students announced their work in our school newsletter
- Hoe hebben jullie dit georganiseerd/met wie?: We got together with the concierges to find the furniture which could be saved within the old school building and chose some dates to work on it. We used the concierge cleaning equipment to clean, remove graffiti and scrape off gum so that desks could be saved and used in our new school building.
- Onderwijstype: Voortgezet onderwijs
- School: Amsterdam International Community School (AICS)
Paper Usage at School
A sub-group of students involved in the Litter & Waste Theme. We researched and took surveys of how much paper was being printed each week and how much paper ended up in our paper recycling bins. We did this by getting younger students to count in their classes over 5 weeks and taking an average across subjects. We put this together with a priced-proposal and sent it to the school management team for their consideration.
- Welke tips wil je andere Eco-teams geven over communicatie van jullie Eco-Team?: Get in touch with the right people for printing numbers, it took us a long time to get the right people to find the number of sheets of paper we print each week.
- Wat was het doel van deze communicatie-actie en wie wilde jullie bereiken?: Through this project I have noticed that our school uses a lot of paper for printouts and for notes in general. I have realized that many teachers print out sheets of paper when we only use it to look at the worksheets or just to read texts and then answer the questions in our notebooks. Instead of printing them out for us to write in our notebooks we should minimize our paper usage. I have also noticed that many people throw away their notebooks at the end of the year and I feel like this is a waste of resources because all that paper is not reused, it can be recycled but we still use paper as a one time appliance, which is why something more effective and reusable should be used. I believe that this project is very beneficial and interesting because we are finding ways to be more sustainable as a school and I believe that students should also be more mindful of their paper usage. The project is a great opportunity to find long term solutions to the extensive paper usage that comes with the lifestyle of the school. Overall the printing of worksheets have been limited since the beginning of this project and the end, which is another observation I made, but the problem of notebooks still remains. We sent our proposal to the school management to consider.
- Hoe hebben jullie dit georganiseerd/met wie?: Fellow Eco-Club students and by talking to the concierge staff to find out about printing numbers.
- Onderwijstype: Voortgezet onderwijs
- School: Amsterdam International Community School (AICS)
