Introduction
The amount of household waste is growing very rapidly. Re-using them is waste management type. It causes the least pollution and helps to save resources. The objective of this WebQuest is to inform about the recycling processes and allow to test knowledge about this topic. In the section "Task" it will be able to get acquainted with the conditions of the task, in the "Process" it will be able to do the task, in the "Evaluation" and "Conclusion" it will be possible to assess the knowledge. Good luck!
Sadzīves atkritumu apjoms aug ļoti strauji. Atkārtota atkritumu izmantošana ir atkritumu apsaimniekošanas veids. Tā rada vismazāko piesārņojumu un palīdz taupīt resursus. Šī WebQuest mērķis ir informēt par atkritumu pārstrādes procesiem un ļaut pārbaudīt zināšanas par uzzināto. Sadaļā "Task" būs iespējams iepazīties ar uzdevuma nosacījumiem, "Process" varēs veikt pašu uzdevumu, "Evaluation" un "Conclusion" būs iespējams izvērtēt savas zināšanas. Lai veicas!
Task
You will watch a short video about recycling. You have to listen carefully and answer to 10 questions that will be given about the video. The questions will be in chronological order, answers must be written on a sheet of paper, so you can later compare them. The link to the video is in the next section and so are the questions. Do the task and them compare your answers to the correct ones in the ''Evaluation'' section.
Process
Click on the video to watch it! You can pause by clicking on it again, to write down your answer. You may watch it several times, if it is needed. The 10 questions you should find answers to are below the video. I suggest opening the video in another window (multi-task settings) since this web page makes you scroll up and down to see all the questions.
1. What kind of Material Recovery Facilities are there?
2. What materials are too complex to be recycled?
3. On what does Single Stream Recycling focus?
4. What is the angle that cardboard and paper ride the wheels?
5. What do the workers separate the materials into bins for?
6. What is paper made of?
7. What is the substance of tiny strands of cellulose fibre called?
8. How are glass, aluminum and plastic separated?
9. Of what chains is plastic made of?
10. Why is it not practical to recycle expanded polystyrene (styrofoam)?
Evaluation
Compare your answers to the correct ones!
1.Single stream recycling plants, Dual stream recycling plants.
2. Computers,batteries, light bulbs.
3. Paper, steel, glass, aluminum, plastic.
4. 45 degrees.
5. Newspaper, mixed paper, corrugated cardboard.
6. Cellulose fibres from wood and water
7. Pulp.
8. By air classifier.
9. Carbon.
10. It does not melt down into a lot of polystyrene
If you got 8-10 correct answers, congratulations, you are a very careful listener, you can now educate your friends and family about this topic. 6-7 correct answers - you should pay more attention to it, since this is quite a hot topic nowadays. If you scored less, I suggest watching the video a few more times, so you can understand where you were mistaken.
Conclusion
Thank you for participating! I hope you found this WebQuest useful and will use the information you received in future! I also hope this made you consider to start recycling if you don't do it already. You can study more about this topic and maybe come up with ideas to make this process even more popular, for example, suggest collecting recyclable things at your school.
Credits
This WebQuest was created Alise Reinholde.