About 

I go to Mackintosh Academy which is an International Baccalaureate (IB) school. We study the world in our Units of Inquiry. This Website was created for the Ecosystems Unit. The Central Idea and Lines of Inquiry are these:

Central Idea - Organisms interact with one another and with their environment.
First Line of Inquiry - Biotic and Abiotic elements of an ecological system.
Second Line of Inquiry - The Relationship between organisms and their environment can produce long-term changes.
Third Line of Inquiry - Management and protection of systems.

For my summative of the Ecosystems unit, we had to select an ecosystem to help. I chose the Pacific Ocean. We had to come up with an action that would help that ecosystem. I decided to do several things:

1. Make this website to increase awareness and give ideas to help.
2. Pick-up plastic by a major waterway. I selected the South Platte River. I spent a couple hours collecting trash and recyclables, but even that was not enough to make a dent. I would encourage people to always carry a trash bag around to pickup trash (especially plastic). The most common items were cigarette butts, but there was a lot of plastic too. We even picked up two dirty diapers next to the road!!!! 
   
3. My family committed to recycling all recyclable plastics and switching to glass and stainless steel containers instead.