Does The Media
Change How
People Feel
About The
Natural
Environment?
By Elizabeth Smith
I am doing a project to show if four common media types
(books, websites, magazines, and movies) affect, (if it DOES
affect) how people feel about the natural environment. I did an
experiment, and a survey. There are 3 possible results- it affects
positively, it doesn’t affect it at all, or it affects negatively. My
email address is elizabeths5@waterlooschools.net, but you can
only email me if you have a waterloo schools email.
My project is
answering the
question, “Does the
media change how
people feel about the
natural environment?”
To answer that
question, I assembled
a list of 4 common
media types, (books,
movies, magazines,
and websites) did a
survey, and an
experiment.
Project
Description
Welcome To My Project!
(Hence the welcome sign in
the picture)
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For my experiment, I
asked 3 people to
look at 1
book/magazine,
watch 1 movie, and
look at 1 website. I
then asked how the
media examples
they chose made
them feel about
protecting the
environment.
people
media examples
What My
Experiment Is All
About
I did an experiment, and this
slide describes what I did and
how I went about doing it.
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The Giving Tree By Shel
Silverstein (1 and up)
Dear Children of the Earth By
Schim Schimmel (5 and up)
Wonderful Nature, Wonderful
You By Karin Ireland (6 and
up)
The Lorax By Dr. Suess (6 and
up)
101 Ways You Can Help Save
the Planet Before You’re 12!
By Joanne O’Sullivan (6 and
up)
Everything Kid’s Environment
Book By Sherri Amsel (9 and
up)
365 Ways to Live Green By
Diane Gow McDilda (9 and
up)
Easy Green Living By Renee
Loux (adults)
Books!
I read 101 Ways… and I
know it greatly influenced
how I felt about the
environment!!! The books
are in order for age level
from youngest to oldest.
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Lorax (5 and up)
The Krill Is Gone (5 and
up)
Happy Feet (5 and up)
Wall-E (5 and up)
Fern Gully-the Last
Rainforest (6 and up)
Furry Vengeance (7 and
up)
Hoot (Rated G)
Earth (Rated G)
Oceans (Rated G)
Hoot (Rated PG)
Avatar (The one with blue
people= 13 and up)
Movies!
All of the movies go from
youngest to oldest, except
for Hoot, Earth and Oceans.
Their ratings will be
displayed, not age levels. I
am told that Avatar isn’t
kid-appropriate, but if your
parents don’t object, then
go ahead and watch it!
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Ranger Rick (7 and up)
Living Green Magazine
(adults)
EarthFirst! (adults)
The Ecologist (adults)
Geotimes (adults)
Inspired To Be Green
(adults)
MotherEarth News (adults)
Natural Life (adults)
National Geographic
(adults)
National Geographic can
be for adults (National
Geographic) for preteens
(National Geographic
kids) and even younger
kids( National Geographic
Little Kids)
Magazines!
Some of these are
magazines/journals, but I read
the blurbs for them and they
all sound pretty good!
National Geographic can be
for adults (National
Geographic) for preteens
(National Geographic kids)
and even younger kids(
National Geographic Little
Kids) Magazines are from
youngest to oldest.
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www.gogreenkids.com (9
and up)
www.greenpeace.org
(teens and up)
www.earth911.com
(teens and up)
www.wcs.org (teens and
up)
www.recycle.com (teens
and up)
www.ecoworld.com
(teens and up)
www.ecobeetle.com
(adults)
www.enn.com (adults)
www.earthtimes.org
(adults)
www.thelorax.com
(teachers)
Websites!
Most of these are
advanced for most kids,
but there are a couple
that are kid friendly.
Websites are in order
from youngest to oldest.
www.thelorax.com is for
teachers, so I can’t
exactly put an age label
on that one.
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What is the media to
you?
What is the natural
environment to you?
How does the media
change how people
feel about the natural
environment if they
don’t feel anything for
the natural
environment already?
How does the media
change how you feel
about the natural
environment?
What type of media
influences people the
most?
Poll/Survey
Questions
This shows the questions in the
poll/survey I conducted.
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From this assignment, I
learned that the
media does affect
how people feel
about the
environment. I did a
poll or survey,
whichever you prefer,
and I think the results
showed that the
media really does
affect people, but
some, they are a bit
wary of what they
hear.
Poll/ Survey
Reflection
I did a reflection, because I
think it is important to reflect
on what you learned during
a project or something like
that. My pictures represent
reflecting.
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I think my
experiment taught
my that there are a
lot of different
media types that
affect a lot of
people in a lot of
way. Also, I learned
that how you
present yourself is
important. In
response to my
question, (see first
slide) the answer
would have to be
yes.
Experiment
Reflection
I wanted to reflect on my
experiment, because I think
that played a big part in
helping me to understand he
answer to my question
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Next to my display is a
suggestion box. If you
have anything that
you really liked, or you
think I could work on
something for future
projects, write it down
on the note cards next
to the table, drop it in
the box, and I will read
all the papers in there
when the night is over!
It is wrapped in the
comics from the
Sunday paper to
represent recycling.
Suggestion Box!
The suggestions I get will
help to make my future
projects better!