Our+Project

Here are the questions we asked the Early Schoolers: -Do you like listening to music? -Do you like a lot of words or a lot of music in songs? -Do you like a lot of different words or the same words repeated? -Do you like big words or small words in your music? -Do you like music to tell a story? -Do you like to sing along to music? -Do you like to listen to grown-ups' voices or kids' voices singing? -Do you like songs that are fast or are slow? -Do you like to listen to single people singing or a group or people singing? -Do you like higher voices or lower voices? -What instruments do you like to listen to? -What do you like to do when you listen to music?

Please put your notes from Monday's (4/20) interviews below:  Neal David Tee Daniel- What our girl who we worked with liked Silly sing and dance. dog animals and fast and repetitive. She likes sing along storys where she says stuff. Her favorite is mary had a little lamb. Just one voice which is wuiet. Likes high voices slow songs soy milk and girls singing best. Siobhan Mike and Marin -- we interviewed Sky and...help me out guys! anyway here are our results: 1. lots of music/both 2.both 3. small words 4. yes and both 5. yes and no 6.both 7. not too fast/ both 8.lots of voices are too loud! so not too many at one time. 9.low voices (high ones get too loud) 10. all different kinds and all together 11.dancing! 12. songs that tell you what to do. (like the hokey-pokey) Joe, Benny, Alexander and Katie (interviewed Pillar and Meta)

0. They like listening to music 1. They like mostly words less music. 2. They like lots of words in their songs. They also said that they like a "little bit" of words. For example, they like the song "Mary had a Little Lamb". 3. They like big words. "Giant words" 4. They do not like music that tells a story. 5. They only like singing along when they know the song; only when its on the radio. 6. They like both grown up and child voices. 7. They like it a little slow, so that they can comprehend the lyrics and sing along, but they also like fast songs though. 8. They prefer one person singing over lots of people singing. 9. They like high voices, low voices and in the middle. 10. Their favourite instruments are drum and violin. They also like guitar because their older brother plays. 11. They like to dance to songs. (example, they like the hokey pokey)

=Song Lyrics =  Here are some of the song lyrics that we came up with in class. Please expand these (and folks like David--you should include the rest of the lyrics of which I only have a sample here):

Pulling metal from the ground Just to cart it round and round

Deep underground Is where metal is found

Aluminum cans come from far, far away This takes energy so don't throw them away Instead take your can and look around Find a recycling bin and chuck it down

Aluminum comes from bauxite ore Mining it makes the Earth sore

I like your jeans I betcha they're made from cotton Which is from Uzbekistan It's really hot there .........man

Growing cotton round the Earth Sowing it to make their worth

Cotton here, cotton there But there's not cotton everywhere Let's find out, I know you care About what's in the jeans you wear

Get on the bike step on my pedal My hands on my handle bars which are made of metal ducking my head so I wont get popped Asians making cotton at the sweat shop Metal and cotton gives you power. Asians making making metal for twenty cents a hour If you guys buy organic metal you will finish in first place Celebrating metal like today its Siobhan's birth day If you want metal then you can have it Aluminum and cotton are better than plastic Organic cotton its gonna cost me But non organic is a waste like Jon Lepofsky

Shifting our project a bit, we'll work towards writing a children's song. Start typing your notes from the Wednesday April 15 class in this space below, identifying what is the most important piece of information/idea that you want to convey to kids in the song. Remember: this project is in response to the four overarching questions below (the bold, green-fonted ones), questions that draw attention to environmental ethics (in addition to social ones). So, starting typing:

-We should tell them that shoes are actually MADE in asia.(Tee&David) -We should tell the Early Schoolers how important it is to recycle aluminum cans. (Alexander) -We should mention that all our stuff comes from the Earth whether it is underground or above. (Bekkah) Our goal to is to create a children's book/game and accompanying YouTube video from our research. We hope to work with students at Campus Early School to complete this project. In conducting this work, we will answer the following questions: -We should make sure that the Early Schoolers understand that there may be negative consequences from the things that they use in their everyday life. (Daniel) -I think what we should aim for is not to make them feel bad about buying cd's or anything for that matter, the point is to give them the information on what has to be done to produce said goods, such as cd's, and from that, they can make their own decisions on how ethical it is. the overall goal should just be to give information, not to pass judgement. (Neal Patrick Dempsey I)


 * **From where does our stuff come?**
 * **To what people and places does our stuff connect us?**
 * **What environmental ethics are possible there?**
 * **Are these people and places within our environmental ethics?**

Post your questions for CES students here: (well, y'all didn't do this, but this is what we came up with in class...)

1) Can you describe your ___? 2) What are the things that make your_____? 3) Where did you get your____? 4) Where were your__ __made? 5) Who makes your__ __?

**PLEASE POST YOUR NOTES FROM YOUR FRIDAY 3/27 CES INTERVIEWS HERE:**
 * Shoes-David wolf and Tee**

Student A: 1. Their shoes have lots of blue on them Student B: 1. The shoes are green

Student A: Shoes are made by people. Theyre tall shoe people at shoe shops. Student B: IDK

Student A: They get their shoes from the mall. Student B: Mommy gets their shoes from the computer.

Student A: The shoes get ordered from carolina country. Student B: The shoes get made in the shoe shops

Student A: Make shoes at night. People who make them get alot of money. Student B: Tons of shoes. Different colors people make shoes. All shoes made here.

Student A: Shoes made in shoe store Student B: Shoes are made in factory

Student A: It takes one person to make a shoe Student B: It takes 6 people.

1) I found that we had to rephrase this question to be more specific such as: what color are my jeans? Are buttons made out of the same stuff as my bracelet? How do these jeans feel? etc. It really helped her when we pointed things out then asked her about it. 2) We rephrased this question as do you think that machine or people made there jean? 3) When we asked her this she didn't get it. However when we asked where she found her Jeans in the morning she said her dresser. The last two question we really did not ask. However we talked about jeans and if she had a favorite pair. We asked her what her favorite color was and she said purple. Then I asked if she though there were such things as purple jeans and she said not. Overall we got a lot of shrugs(which meant I don't know). She did say that blue cloth was used to make jeans.
 * Bekkah:**(Jeans)

1)Can you describe your jeans? blue, and soft 2)What are the things that make your jeans? cloth,blue,shrug 3)Where did you get your jeans? dresser 4)Where were your jeans made? the people that sew them 5)who makes your jeans? not sure, shrug
 * Michael**: (Jeans)

Soda Cans. 1. They did not know what a soda can was. When we told them what it was they said that it was a can. They also said that it is hollow. 2. They had no clue what a soda can was made of. 3. They think you can by soda cans at grocery stores. 4. They did not know where soda cans where made but they guessed "in a shop" 5. They said that "guys" make soda cans.


 * Neal and Daniel:**__


 * When asked to describe the cd's that we placed in front of them, our two early-schoolers described them as "sparkly" and "golden"
 * When asked what they thought the cd's were made of, both of the girls responded with words such as "metal" and what we thought was "tools"
 * They said they got their cd's at home from stores such as walmart and harris teeter. When we asked them if they knew any other stores where they got cd's from, they said that they didn't know any other stores; the only store they knew was walmart. We thought that was rather whitty.
 * What we though was pretty interesting was that when we asked them where their cd's came from, where they were made, they responded by saying "shops" with "people" inside them, and when we asked them to point on a world map to where they thought the cd's were made, they pointed to every region of the world except north america or europe; something we thought was interesting. we even asked them if they though any were made in north america and they responded by saying "no; only other places."
 * Finally, when asked who makes their cd's, they said people who were "just like us", who "make stuff" and who "hang out places."
 * Interesting note: the kids didn't seem able to indentify between cd's and dvd's. We tried to explain dvd's to them, but they never really got the concept that the movies they saw on the tv came from a cd like the one they were holding in their hands....


 * Katie and Alexander:**__

CDs:
 * Can you describe the CD? "The back is shiny." didn't know who it was for. Said that CDs were used for music.
 * What are the things that make your CD? "Plastic."
 * Where do you get your CDs? "My mom made it on the computer." Wasn't sure where her mom got it from.
 * Where was your CD made? Didn't know.
 * Who made it? "CDs come from people."

Cans:
 * Can you describe the can? "Its made of plastic, it doesn't look like a CD."
 * What are the things that make your can? "Plastic" words probably painted on.
 * Where do you get your cans? "My brother drinks cans, me and my parents don't."
 * Where did it come from? "Faraway." Didn't know where the plastic comes from, sometimes she finds plastic outside, isn't sure if its natural.
 * Who makes cans? "Machines make cans. They take a long time to make."

She says she wants to learn more about CDs and cans.

For Thursday: David wolf: I think the most important thing is the preschoolers knowing that everything doesnt just come from the store.