ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Science Videos 34 videos
Hurry, click now on our fantastic video about advertising techniques, and we'll include free jokes. (While supplies last.)
Today we'll be drawing conclusions. And since this is a science video, you can probably conclude that we will not be drawing pictures. Yep, it's th...
We're raisin the water content of raisins today with osmosis. Spoiler alert: even through they may look like grapes again, they're still going to t...
Science 5: Environmentally Friendly Ideas 10 Views
Share It!
Description:
When you see the environment, smile and politely offer out your hand. Oh and also never throw garbage on its face. That's not usually considered to be "friendly" behavior.
Transcript
- 00:04
[Dino and Coop singing]
- 00:13
If students were in charge of running the school, things would probably be a bit different... [Kids walking off the schoolbus]
- 00:17
For example…math class would probably be replaced with recess class! [Empty class room]
- 00:20
…Which is just more recess.
- 00:22
Yeah, yeah, we know…"ideas like that are why students will never run schools!" blahblahblah…
Full Transcript
- 00:26
Okay, so maybe you can't make all-day recess a thing, but that doesn't mean there aren't [Kids falls off a swing]
- 00:29
some positive changes you as students can make to your school and community...
- 00:33
Especially when it comes to the environment. [Kid has a black eye]
- 00:36
And because we like brainstorming really good ideas––seriously, someone should jump
- 00:40
on that recess class thing––here are a few to get you started...
- 00:43
What if you convinced someone... and it could be anyone, from your school principal, to [Kid walking down the street]
- 00:47
the mayor, or to local shop owners... to switch their light bulbs to more energy efficient ones?
- 00:53
It's an easy sell since it reduces their bills, and it helps the environment. [Shop owner looks happy and boy has his thumbs up]
- 00:56
Or what if you convinced your community to put a recycling bin next to every single public
- 01:00
garbage can in your town?
- 01:02
There are tons of people who throw bottles or cans in the trash simply because there
- 01:05
aren't any recycling bins around. [People recycling]
- 01:07
This way, if they keep doing it, you have every right to follow them around and boo
- 01:11
them until they go back and fix their mistake! [Kid following a man]
- 01:14
You could also talk to local stores about giving customers who use cloth bags instead
- 01:17
of plastic bags a small discount.
- 01:19
Nothing motivates people like money! [Woman with dollar signs in her eyes]
- 01:21
Or you could organize a fundraiser to help the community buy solar panels for traffic
- 01:25
lights around town.
- 01:26
You even could organize a “ride your bike to work or school” day.
- 01:29
Or a community “blackout” where every home turned off their lights for ten minutes
- 01:32
each month to save a bit of electricity. [Street of houses goes dark]
- 01:34
Plus, think of how nice the star gazing would be with no lights!
- 01:37
Or an entire day where everyone agrees to turn off their TVs and get outside instead! [Man switches his TV off and jumps out the window]
- 01:42
Just make sure not to include turning off their computers in any of those ideas…we
- 01:45
wouldn't want anyone to go without Shmoop… [Guy sat at his computer]
- 01:47
Anyway, these are just a few ideas of things you could do to help your community become [Coop pointing at a blackboard]
- 01:51
even more eco-friendly.
- 01:52
But we're sure you can come up with some even better ones that would work specifically for [Dino pointing at a blackboard]
- 01:56
your community.
- 01:57
But be sure they're actually realistic…
- 01:59
Sure, asking everyone to work together to power the town using giant five-hundred
- 02:03
person bicycle generator sounds like a good idea, but it's not exactly realistic.
- 02:07
That sweat smell would get bad, and fast. [Field full of people on bikes]
Related Videos
Check out the best bias video ever made, courtesy of the most awesome and amazing educational website in existence.
No, this isn't a terrible new mint-peach bubble gum flavor...though it does tend to leave a bad taste in people's mouths.
Those settlers in Jamestown really should have settled down with all that land-stealing. Tobacco's bad for you anyway.
Being born out of multiple wars doesn't quite seem to fit the peaceful, polite Canadians we know and love today...oh wait, they were called The Bea...
Not every cartoon is meant to entertain small children while their mother gets some "Mommy time." There are also political cartoons, which are mean...