Human Impact: The Pros and Cons

The Urban Naturalists considered the affects of human impact on the environment. We discussed what humans do that has a positive impact on the environment, such as wasting less, putting bird feeders out, shutting lights off when leaving a room and picking up after our dogs. We also discussed negative impacts humans participate in, such as habitat destruction and pollution.

We took a hike outside around the school grounds and noted areas of positive and negative impact. We decided that the school had many areas of positive impact, such as providing bike racks to encourage people to ride bikes to work and putting bird feeders outside on the trees.

Finally, we considered the timelines of decomposition of our daily trash. We learned that a banana takes 2 to 3 weeks to break down while glass could take millions of years!

Katherine explains some positive and negative
impacts by humans upon the environment

Found some interesting scat outside of the school! 

Hmmm...which objects breaks down first

Can you believe diapers take 450 years
to break down? Our grandparents diapers
are still somewhere in the landfill!