Over the past few weeks, I worked on a project to further explore why my inquiry is important to me personally. This project included three parts; the first part was the research phase, the second part was on symbolism, and the third part was the writing phase. During part one, I read two academic articles of research conducted by groups working on finding solutions to the problems with ocean plastics. This research was informative, and it also made me think about solutions to the issue of ocean plastics in a new way. One of the articles highlighted that it is more important to focus on stopping thee inflow of plastic to the ocean before working to remove existing plastic in the oceans. This was an interesting and enjoyable portion of the project and you can visit my research by clicking the link to the document here. For the symbolism phase, which was the second portion of the project, I created a poster about what my inquiry means to me. You can see what I created below, and you can read a description on the explanation of the poster in the next phase of the project. The final phase included writing a research paper which incorporated the research that we did and the graphic element that we created. You can read a copy of my research paper by clicking the link here.
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Overview of my InquiryIn this inquiry I hope to learn about how our ocean ecosystems work, the effect of ocean plastics on our oceans, and what we can do to lessen the effects of ocean plastics, through research. Once I have my background knowledge, I hope to be able to take what I learned and model it in a programmed biological simulation using starlogo nova, which is a programming language. My simulation will be able to vary the amount of plastic that reaches the oceans, the toxicity of the plastics to the ocean life, and the amount of ocean creatures in order to take data from the simulation on how ocean plastics affect ecosystems and what makes a healthy ocean ecosystem. Once I finish working on the simulation I will write up a summary explaining what I learned and connecting it back to what we can do to help our ocean ecosystems. Through this, I will be learning about scientific writing.
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