How can a business run efficiently if the employees spend all their time entering information into a computer by hand or having to use type writers? The answer is they couldn't. A spreadsheet is a way to catalogue and analyze data. You can use formulas that could make calculations that would normally take hours.
Students could log in the types of plastic containers they use at their homes each week. They could also log the amount of containers they use for each product for a week. The spreadsheet will do all the totals for you once you have implemented the correct formulas.
An inquiry-based approach, taken on such a project as how to clean up the oceans is truly the only approach that one could take. There is no manual that says, "When the oceans are full of our discarded, reusable waste, then just rotate the.....", so we will need to ask many questions, explore every avenue. A childs mind works in remarkable ways. I told my son, "You know it's 238,857 miles to the moon.". He then turned and asked me, "yeah, but how far is it to the other side of the moon that we can't see?". I had no answer. My point is, the thought that two brains are better than one is true. Can you imagine a billion brains?
Students will be able to increase their awareness about their own plastic usage. Calculated on a spreadsheet, the results are undeniable. Put into a chart and it becomes an image that makes a huge impression, gains attention, and would be easily read, which is helpful for some like me. How could this be an effective tool if your goal is to change legislation concerning plastics? Is the amount of trash in the oceans going to effect our lives? The lives of our children? What are the true consequences of convience?
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