Green Bricks - Class Visitation

The Green Bricks people came to our class on November 5th, 2007.

They educated us and told us about what we can do to conserve energy and what's happening to the earth right now.
They showed us a video in the beginning about teenagers flicking off and not polluting the air by biking and walking instead of taking a car or the bus.
It was interesting because this video was targeted for teenagers. We are the new generation and the future is depending on us to reduce footprints.
Knowing we are the new generation and the future is in our hands, we know that we have to do something to reduce our footprints and to conserve as much energy and water as much as we can.

I learned a lot from what they talked to us about, though there were some information I already knew.
The class was actually pretty fun, we got to design our own school, home or other type of building, with many energy efficient items. There were solar panels, energy efficient florescent light bulbs, dual-flush toilets, etc.
It was really cool, because we actually had to think of what items should be in the building, and why it was there. Our group used up most of the items that we could choose from. We had some different things like insulation, a garden, a bus stop (because we chose to build a school) so kids would be encouraged to take the bus to & from school, and many other things.
After that, at our tables, we were able to build these solar-powered race cars. It was really fun building it together, because Adnan (my partner) and I didn't understand some of the instructions. Also, to put some parts together, you had to put a lot of work into because parts would fit or you had to sand it down. It was really fun.
Finally, we were able to put our work to the test. They had brought these lights with them with very long cords, so we could move our cars from one end of the classroom to the other. It was really fun watching the other people race because there were so many different actions of these cars with the identical parts.
Some went really slow while others moved across the floor to the goal in seconds. Ours was one of the fast moving ones. It was really funny, because ours and another groups were really fast, so we decided to race them. We had run out of time for class, so we had a really unfair race. It was where Adnan moved the car across the floor and declared we won, while the other team had just started to put their car on the starting line.
It was kind of sad we had to return the cars, because we had worked so hard to put them together, and we had to give it back. I hope they come again because it was really fun and I think everyone in the class learned a lot.

For the whole week, we had all the teachers to save energy by turning off some lights in the classrooms.
It was really good, & to me, I think it was a good wake-up call.

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