Comenius Science Investigation• How big is our Carbon footprint?• As a school, what impact are we

having on our environment?•How much waste do we produce?•How can we calculate our impact?• Interpreting and presenting our

results.•What are our next steps for

improvement?

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Year 1

1M have been looking at how we travel to school.We put our results into a bar chart.

We also put our results into a pie chart. We could easily that most of us walked to school and not many of us rode our bike. Nearly a quarter of the class came by car.

Most of the people that came by car live quite far away.

In class 1H we wanted to find out how much water we use to wash paint pots and to wash our hands.Would it be less if we put the plug in, instead of using running water?

First we found out that it takes ½ minute to fill 1 jug from the tap.

Next we washed the pots in running water and counted how many ½ minutes it took.

Next we washed the pots in a bowl of water and counted how many jugs of water we used.

After that we did the same washing our hands.

We recorded our findings on a graph.

We will always put the plug in to save water!

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Year 2

Year 2 sorted through their lunch boxes to see what could be recycled.

We then recycled all the things into different bins after each lunch time. We then talked about reducing the amount of packaging in our lunch boxes. What did we actually need to have in our lunch

boxes and how to be smarter when packing our lunch.We did the same experiment a week later after doing lots of work on packaging

and the amount of packaging in our lunch boxes had fallen by over 30%.

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Year 3

3W packed lunch waste!Re-usablepoints

Recylablepoints

Waste points Total points

Apollo 11 16 40 67

Mars 9 10 70 89

Jupiter 5 16 120 141

Neptune 6 16 55 77

Cupid 7 28 40 75

Class 38 86 325 449

Re-usablepoints

Recylcablepoints

Waste points Total points

Apollo 17 40 113 170

Mars 18 15 9 42

Jupiter 15 18 120 153

Neptune 16 15 54 85

Cupid 13 11 26 50

Zeus 16 9 29 54

Class 95 108 351 554

3FR packed lunch waste!

Year 3 examined their lunchboxes and gave a score to their contents;

Re-usable 1 Recyclable 2 Waste 5

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Year 4We collected food packaging and

researched where the food came from and how many miles it had travelled to reach

the UK.

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Year 5

Year 5 discussed the problem of litter in our school community.

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Year 6

Year 6 sorted objects that would otherwise be thrown away and taken to landfill.

Year 6 examined the contents of their lunchboxes