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ArianaBlack · 09-16-2020, 02:47 AM

SPOILER!!: organizing last few individual responses with quotes to save space lol

SPOILER!!: Valentina

Finneas continued to make his way around the classroom, which involved a whole lot of weaving in and out of rows of desks. And also a lot of coordination. Coordination was something Finneas did not have. What he did have, however, was a smile for young Valentina. "Planting trees as a natural sound barrier is very clever! A win-win-win for the environment all together!!" Ugh. They were LEARNING things. It was incredible.

SPOILER!!: Blake and Ashley

Finneas loved it when he could see learning happening in real time. He also loved it when teamwork produced beautiful results, such as the end product of this slytherin-ravenclaw duo. He gave the pair a thumbs up as he walked by. "Excellent work! Feel free to hang it up outside with some tape." He gestured to the roll he had on his desk.

SPOILER!!: Josh, the poor butt of all the jokes

Run for the earth, you say? Finneas paused by Josh's desk for a long moment or two (or three). "Would you mind if I, errr, hang this up front for the rest of class?" He waited a beat before taking it. THANKS, Joshua! You hit the nail on its head!

SPOILER!!: Claudine with the good nose

Claudine was the only one to have a problem with the stench, it seemed. Finneas tilted his head, giving the room a good sniff. "Err... Does it? Heh. I can't tell!" In other news, either his nose was having a terrible day or he had definitely grown accustomed to the smell by now. Who would really know? Not Finneas.

SPOILER!!: Heath

Quote:

Originally Posted by madmadammalfoy

heath kept his head down until he felt claudine nudge him. so you’re elbowing me now? he thought. i thought you didn’t like physical contact. he looked at her with a slight smile, but he didn’t want to disrupt the class by saying something back. Oh, but there was a reason to hide his face. Answers like that were the sort of thing that got him bullied in muggle school. For all he knew, every person in this room might think him a huge nerd now! At least professor schmoe seemed to like his answer; that was something.

He tried to distract himself from his embarrassment by taking notes, finishing just as the instructions for the activity were given. Great, an art project… just what he needed. He was really not good at drawing, not like… the thought crossed his mind to ask claudine to be his partner. She could do the artwork, while he handled the nerdy, factual stuff, but when he glanced at her, he saw that she was already working by herself. He wasn’t offended - he knew she liked to do things on her own - but the fact remained that not having a partner made his work a lot harder. He was used to blueprints and schematics, having seen many of them in his model building hobby, not art!

Wait, that gave him an idea! His poster could be a schematic of a cooling tower! With his concept in mind, heath went to retrieve a poster board and some markers. Now there was just the question of what type of cooling tower to illustrate. There were several types. Crossflow or counterflow? Natural draft or mechanical? One that looked like a box or the sort of beaker-shaped design? After some careful thought, he decided to go with a beaker-shaped crossflow mechanical draft design because it seemed easiest to diagram. He used a black marker to draw a tapered cylinder, wide at the bottom and becoming narrower toward the top. Near the top of the cylinder he drew a fan with a gray marker. Dotted blue lines at the sides represented the cold air coming in; dotted red ones represented the hot air being released through the top. The hot water coming in through the top was shown through solid red lines, and the cool water flowing back into the environment at the bottom through (you guessed it!) solid blue ones.

Heath was so focused on drawing an accurate diagram that he almost didn’t hear professor schmoe’s five minute warning. He quickly labeled each part of the cooling tower and wrote the following information at the bottom of the poster:

Mostly satisfied with his work, heath went to hang his poster in the corridor outside the room.

Still trying to sniff around and catch a whiff of the terrible smell Ms. Blaze seemed to catch, Finneas continued his way around the classroom. "I like your depiction of the err... the cooling towers and water flow, Mr. Jones!" Very creative. Should've expected it from the Ravenclaws tbh.

SPOILER!!: Aboli h8s straws

Finneas grinned BIG. "That is one nice straw!" His students were so artistic. It was incredible. Finneas wanted to have poster activities ALL the time. They were artists.

SPOILER!!: Naya

"If you want to breathe, plant some trees!" He SMILED big and wide. How catchy. He smiled as he continued to repeat the line under his breath. These were so good. Maybe they could plant trees as a class. He'd have to ask June about it. It would be a good opportunity for collaboration. ~~And to spend time with a good friend.~~

SPOILER!!: olivia OMG I'M CRYING

"Huh, very good," Finneas mused, tapping his chin and looking over her work. Finneas couldn't help but feel that the boy in the drawing looked vaguely familiar.... But he couldn't quite put his finger on it. In any case, the creativity was unmatched. And he'd continue to think on it as she went to go hang it up. Huh. Where had he seen that face before?

SPOILER!!: Violet

HA! Spare the air! HA. Finneas let out a good chuckle to show his approval. He gave the young Slytherin a grand smile, before encouraging her to tape it up on the wall outside.

SPOILER!!: Emmerson you scare us

Finneas..... nodded. Hesitantly. Very hesitantly. He had to admit, it was quite good. Was the message entirely accurate? No. But err.... All messaging had its flaws...

"Errr... Yes, certainly. Remind me before the end of class, yeah?" Hopefully her mother would be too busy admiring her daughter's penmanship and er.... Not thinking about the fact that idiot pollution did not exist. This could only go one of two ways. And one way, was very bad for Finneas' career in academia.

SPOILER!!: Nem. Wow, hurtful

And put noodle man on edge, they did. Finneas was excited to see what Nemsis came up with, but errr.... before he had the chance to snoop.... Young Upstead was already out the door with their poster. Well. Er. That's. Er. That's fine! He wasn't upset at all!

SPOILER!!: Bernie with the dank memes

And last but not least on the tour around the classroom. Ms. Grantham. Finneas never knew what to expect when it came to Bernadette, but he has since attempted to adopt the practice of expecting the unexpected.

A meme.

Finneas CHUCKLED. It wasn't exactly the point, but he could appreciate the throwback to a previous lesson. "Ha ha ha... ho ho ho!" Good one, Bernie.

AnYwAy.

With all the students trickling back into the SMELLY room, Finneas thought it was a good time to go back to the STINKY storage closet and pull out the supplies necessary for this last portion of class. The BIG, STINKY reveal. This meant that there were a whole bunch of bags filled with rubbish sat at the front of the classroom now. So THAAAAT'S why the room smells so bad. It was all starting to make sense. Finneas, however, was immune to the smell for some odd reason. You are what you can't smell. Badda bing badda boom.

He cleared his throat and attempted to call attention to the front of the room again with a desperate wave of his noodle arms. "Something that came up quite a number of times is an errr easy way to contribute to the lessening of pollution! That would be reducing, reusing, and recycling!" Were people taking notes? He paused just in case. "In our next few lessons we'll really dive into the topic of pollution further and discuss the BIG, BAD AND UGLY. We'll hopefully refine and gain an understanding of what a carbon footprint is and its role in the grand scheme of things... BUT! For now, we're looking at RECYCLING and waste!" He paused to take a great, deep breath. As one does. And then gulp a big sip of water. Because he was a thirsty man.

"Not all materials can be recycled! You CAN recycle newspapers, magazines, papers, glass bottles and jars, plastics, cardboard, and aluminum cans. But you cannot recycle disposable wrappers, foam, food and liquid, items with food waste residue, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera..." That was a reference to The King and I! "When in doubt, check the product and see if it has a recycling symbol on it and errr... that will be a good bet that it can be recycled." He rummaged through his pile of things and stuff before finding the poster with the recycling logo on it. Could everyone see it??? Bet.

"Mr. Miller's poster was right on the money today!" He motioned to the poster that the sixth year had drawn. It was front and center on the front board for ALL to see. "Today we will be doing our own trash dash of sorts... Er... But we will be competing. I will be splitting everyone into TWO distinct teams. One team will be TEAM POLLUTANTS and the other will be TEAM OZONE." Was he making sense? "For those of you who choose to be on team pollutant, you will come to the front and grab a bag filled with rubbish." Rubbish including empty plastic bottles, old clothes, drink cans, used tissues, rotten fruit, newspapers, YOU NAME IT! "Your task is to run around the room and pollute it with as much rubbish as possible." Maybe he ought to have provided gloves for this... OH WELL! Nothing like getting your hands dirty to prove a point.

"Team Ozone, your mission is to save the classroom from pollution! You will either receive a bag for the collection of rubbish OR for the collection of recyclable items. Recalling our discussion on recyclable items (and using the helpful poster behind your professor), your mission is to collect as much of the displaced rubbish as possible. If you have a recycling bag, please be sure to ONLY pick up recycling items. And if you have a RUBBISH bag, stick to the rubbish!" He paused for questions.

"Come up and grab what you need from the front. There will be a prize for the winning team!!! And then........ LET THE TRASH DASH, BEGIN!"

OOC: Omg y'all, these posters were incredible and the catchphrases were so creative! Thanks for all your patience as we trudged along. We've made it to the final activity. And you'll have at least 65 hours!

Things to keep in mind:
1. Specify whether you are Team Pollutant or Team Ozone in your post title, let's try to keep numbers relatively even. So if the person above you is Team Pollutant, then you'd be Team Ozone and vice versa.
2. Interact with one another! Remember, there are desks everywhere and people will be running this way and that. Lots of opportunity for chaos! You're also competing against the other team, so act accordingly!

Team Pollutant: Your mission is to place as much trash around the room as possible
- Grab a bag filled with garbage (empty plastic bottles, old clothes, drink cans, tissues, etc etc etc)
- Run around the room and place the trash everywhere

Team O-Zone: Your mission is to collect as much of the garbage as possible
+ You will either receive a bag that says RECYCLE or one that says RUBBISH
+ Run around the room and pick up recyclable items or rubbish items according to which bag you have been given

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ArianaBlack Forum Manager Ashwinder Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: #6e5f57 \|#ff5470 Posts: 13,707 Hogwarts RPG Name: Alfie Adair Hufflepuff Fourth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Laini Gracae-Ryans Slytherin Third Year x10 x1	FINAL ACTIVITY TIME!!!! who woulda thought doesn't proofread tweets \| #wrongaboutcereal \| #siriusly? \| emo to the extremo SPOILER!!: organizing last few individual responses with quotes to save space lol SPOILER!!: Valentina Quote: Originally Posted by lady of light a poster?? Uh. Valentina listened to the instructions carefully before pulling out her parchment. Wait, what did she even want to write about?? Um. She absently stared out the window, stifling a yawn, suddenly feeling very tired.. Kind of wishing she could take a nap. She turned to find the professor walking around a couple of moments later.. And she hadn’t even started yet! Oops. Uhhhh. She started to write her name and house.. And stopped, again. This was ridiculous. How could she not think of anything?? Could she ask schmoe for ideas? But she didn’t want the cool professor thinking that she was stupid. Nope. Ooooh. Oh. She had a brilliant idea. name the problem - sound pollution what can we do to fix it - plant more trees because they are natural sound barriers catchy tagline - less talking, more planting perfect. Finneas continued to make his way around the classroom, which involved a whole lot of weaving in and out of rows of desks. And also a lot of coordination. Coordination was something Finneas did not have. What he did have, however, was a smile for young Valentina. "Planting trees as a natural sound barrier is very clever! A win-win-win for the environment all together!!" Ugh. They were LEARNING things. It was incredible. SPOILER!!: Blake and Ashley Quote: Originally Posted by love-for-hp "looks great, wow you really can draw!" blake added with a smile ... Okay for a first year she was alright ... He wasn't sure he wanted to hang out on weekends just yet, but she was nice and easy to work with. "i'll do the words quick and you can finish up the drawing and we can put this one behind us!." schmoe had just given out the last call warning, so they needed to wrap it up. Quote: Originally Posted by astrocat "thanks. I really do love to draw. Nice lettering," ashley said smilingly. She enjoyed this project. It was something that she could do without magic, so that was helpful as a muggle-born. She did the drawing for real while blake wrote the words, and then she went to go hang it up. Their poster thing was so cool! Another project done. Finneas loved it when he could see learning happening in real time. He also loved it when teamwork produced beautiful results, such as the end product of this slytherin-ravenclaw duo. He gave the pair a thumbs up as he walked by. "Excellent work! Feel free to hang it up outside with some tape." He gestured to the roll he had on his desk. SPOILER!!: Josh, the poor butt of all the jokes Quote: Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie so....josh was lost. He knew he was lacking a bit in the brains and smarts department, but this lesson was just making him feel downright dumb. He wasn't bad at muggle studies either, not usually, but everything being said and explained was just going over his head and it was more than a little frustrating and he felt too embarrassed to ask questions about...most of the stuff. He was also still stuck on what a carbon footprint even meant but it seemed like the moment had passed there. He had no idea what clean energy meant as opposed to dirty energy either, just sort of hints here and there that he had gathered from his peers. Least he was able to narrow down the topic for his poster then since he couldn't make something about something he was utterly clueless about. So...picking up trash it was. Which was already something that he did with his quidditch teams after matches. Go around the field and collect whatever may have flown down from the stands and sometimes even venture into the stands to help out there too. Made you respect the stadium and the game more. What else did he know well? Music...but he was feeling too out of sorts to do anything with that now and instead fell back on exercise since, well, that was drilled into his system now. So...he was still going to roll with this land pollution...so in the upper corner of his parchment he wrote down the basics before going to collect his supplies and making an attempt at drawing something more than just a stick figure on the paper. Aaaaaaaaaaaaand he was going to slouch in his seat now. Run for the earth, you say? Finneas paused by Josh's desk for a long moment or two (or three). "Would you mind if I, errr, hang this up front for the rest of class?" He waited a beat before taking it. THANKS, Joshua! You hit the nail on its head! SPOILER!!: Claudine with the good nose Quote: Originally Posted by fearlessleader19 no. Sorry, professor, but she had not grown accustomed to that foul stench. Climbing to her feet, claudine grabbed a roll of tape, a pair of scissors and her poster. She paused before moving from her seat. “professor, something really does stink in here. I think you might need to use one of those muggle things… freshner? Freshener?’’ claudine eyed the man, daring him to do something about it. At any second she might throw up and she’d throw up on schmoe for putting her through this. Hoping she’d be able to rid her nostrils of the foul odor, the snakette went out into the hallway, breathing in deeply after doing so. horrible, stinky classroom. but maybe the next part of the lesson had something to do with that? They probably could be working on air pollution. With that vague thought in mind, claudine neatly taped her poster to one wall of the hallway. She then stood back to admire it. The girl really loved being an artist. Claudine was the only one to have a problem with the stench, it seemed. Finneas tilted his head, giving the room a good sniff. "Err... Does it? Heh. I can't tell!" In other news, either his nose was having a terrible day or he had definitely grown accustomed to the smell by now. Who would really know? Not Finneas. SPOILER!!: Heath Quote: Originally Posted by madmadammalfoy heath kept his head down until he felt claudine nudge him. so you’re elbowing me now? he thought. i thought you didn’t like physical contact. he looked at her with a slight smile, but he didn’t want to disrupt the class by saying something back. Oh, but there was a reason to hide his face. Answers like that were the sort of thing that got him bullied in muggle school. For all he knew, every person in this room might think him a huge nerd now! At least professor schmoe seemed to like his answer; that was something. He tried to distract himself from his embarrassment by taking notes, finishing just as the instructions for the activity were given. Great, an art project… just what he needed. He was really not good at drawing, not like… the thought crossed his mind to ask claudine to be his partner. She could do the artwork, while he handled the nerdy, factual stuff, but when he glanced at her, he saw that she was already working by herself. He wasn’t offended - he knew she liked to do things on her own - but the fact remained that not having a partner made his work a lot harder. He was used to blueprints and schematics, having seen many of them in his model building hobby, not art! Wait, that gave him an idea! His poster could be a schematic of a cooling tower! With his concept in mind, heath went to retrieve a poster board and some markers. Now there was just the question of what type of cooling tower to illustrate. There were several types. Crossflow or counterflow? Natural draft or mechanical? One that looked like a box or the sort of beaker-shaped design? After some careful thought, he decided to go with a beaker-shaped crossflow mechanical draft design because it seemed easiest to diagram. He used a black marker to draw a tapered cylinder, wide at the bottom and becoming narrower toward the top. Near the top of the cylinder he drew a fan with a gray marker. Dotted blue lines at the sides represented the cold air coming in; dotted red ones represented the hot air being released through the top. The hot water coming in through the top was shown through solid red lines, and the cool water flowing back into the environment at the bottom through (you guessed it!) solid blue ones. Heath was so focused on drawing an accurate diagram that he almost didn’t hear professor schmoe’s five minute warning. He quickly labeled each part of the cooling tower and wrote the following information at the bottom of the poster: Mostly satisfied with his work, heath went to hang his poster in the corridor outside the room. Still trying to sniff around and catch a whiff of the terrible smell Ms. Blaze seemed to catch, Finneas continued his way around the classroom. "I like your depiction of the err... the cooling towers and water flow, Mr. Jones!" Very creative. Should've expected it from the Ravenclaws tbh. SPOILER!!: Aboli h8s straws Quote: Originally Posted by kayquilz time to officially make the poster. She saw that laugh, schmoe. It made her laugh, and she was off to make the poster. She thought she might go for the minimalist approach...did she want to free-hand draw the straw or perhaps...try to use some straight edges from her notebook to draw one? They weren't hard to draw even if aboli wasn't an artist. Now, her handwriting was neat...it was always neat. She liked her handwriting. Drawing a straw was harder than she originally thought, and so she decided to just draw a straw in a cup because...alone, it looked weird. Wrong. And weird again. So... Her poster was done. It was kinda' crude, but it was cute at least. Finneas grinned BIG. "That is one nice straw!" His students were so artistic. It was incredible. Finneas wanted to have poster activities ALL the time. They were artists. SPOILER!!: Naya Quote: Originally Posted by daydreamer11 it was activity time. Naya listened as the professor explained what they would be doing. She was always down for anything artsy crafty, so this sounded like it was right up her alley. She immediately went to retrieve some art supplies and returned to her seat to work on her poster. Naya knew which type of pollution she wanted to focus on. The hard part was going to be coming up with a catch phrase. That was definitely where she was lacking in the talent department. Naya looked at the required information and began to jot down what she could, then she had to think, really think of something good to sell her poster. Unfortunately, everything she could think of was extremely corny. Did they have to share their posters with the entire class? She hoped not because that would be awkward and definitely embarrassing. Still not sure of a catch phrase, she worked on the drawing part. Once that was done, she heard the professor say that they only had a few minutes left to work. It seemed that she was going to have to go with the corny phrase. When the poster was finished, naya looked at it and was not pleased. Surely she could have done better than this. SPOILER!!: naya’s work name the problem: air pollution what can we do to fix it or suggest an alternative: plant trees to help clean the air and absorb the pollutants. catchy tagline or motto: if you want to breathe, plant some trees. "If you want to breathe, plant some trees!" He SMILED big and wide. How catchy. He smiled as he continued to repeat the line under his breath. These were so good. Maybe they could plant trees as a class. He'd have to ask June about it. It would be a good opportunity for collaboration. ~~And to spend time with a good friend.~~ SPOILER!!: olivia OMG I'M CRYING Quote: Originally Posted by samia olivia was very pleased when the muggle studies professor actually named her and agreed with what she had to say. But that didn't mean she was any less annoyed with the general tone of the class. That was also her default setting so what could you do. Nevertheless, the moment the professor explained the activity - olivia knew what she wanted to do. It was probably the only way she could distract herself from being awfully negative about this school. So, she pulled out a pouch from her back - filled with her various pencils, and markers and quills and everything she ever needed to draw anything, and then she silently got to working. She didn't have to think all that hard, and since she had already drawn josh before - she found herself easily doodling away what she wanted. Each stroke brought with it a wonderful kind of satisfaction, and she refused to lift her head until the poster was done. Once done, and feeling rather proud of her quick work, she wrote down the ... Necessary details: Once done, she looked up - just in time for the professor to announce they were almost done. Picking up the poster, she easily walked through the crowd and hung the thing in the hallway. Good. SPOILER!!: the poster "Huh, very good," Finneas mused, tapping his chin and looking over her work. Finneas couldn't help but feel that the boy in the drawing looked vaguely familiar.... But he couldn't quite put his finger on it. In any case, the creativity was unmatched. And he'd continue to think on it as she went to go hang it up. Huh. Where had he seen that face before? SPOILER!!: Violet Quote: Originally Posted by madalice violet realized she had been in a blue funk for most of the class discussion, so she hastily pulled out a piece or parchment and tried to make some headway with the assignment. Pollution...she remembered last summer with her father, looking down at the city from that high building and seeing that ugly, rust-brown ring surrounding everything. She remembered how reluctant she had been go back down to the street once she realized that that was the air she had been breathing. There she paused, quill in hand. Poster...hmm....she had been vaguely embarrassed in her first year by the childishness of her attempt at a poster... HA! Spare the air! HA. Finneas let out a good chuckle to show his approval. He gave the young Slytherin a grand smile, before encouraging her to tape it up on the wall outside. SPOILER!!: Emmerson you scare us Quote: Originally Posted by danidinardo eeeee!! "do you really like it?" emm squealed, her eyes shimmering in delight at the compliment. He said it was nice, it meant he liked it. Translation: Schmoe was absolutely floored by her work and was so amazed that he was reduced to simple compliments. Emmerson hopped up from her seat. "i'll go do it now! Make sure everyone gets to see it." she skipped across the room to get the tape then continued skipping all the way out of the classroom. Had to pick the perfect spot on the wall. Near the door was the best because it meant you couldn't get into the room without seeing it. The little gryffindor got up on her tippy toes to get it as high as possible before applying the tape. Back inside, she looked to the professor. "will you duplicate it for me so i can send a copy home to mummy?" Finneas..... nodded. Hesitantly. Very hesitantly. He had to admit, it was quite good. Was the message entirely accurate? No. But err.... All messaging had its flaws... "Errr... Yes, certainly. Remind me before the end of class, yeah?" Hopefully her mother would be too busy admiring her daughter's penmanship and er.... Not thinking about the fact that idiot pollution did not exist. This could only go one of two ways. And one way, was very bad for Finneas' career in academia. SPOILER!!: Nem. Wow, hurtful Quote: Originally Posted by Felixir Nemesis Upstead simply did not care. Muggle Studies was a bit of a whatever subject for them anyway, their only motivation for turning up being to put the Noodle Man on edge as much as they could, as often as they could. Throw pollution into the lesson equation and it became death by ennui. They had made a good show at appearing moderately engaged up until the activity, but that was about it. Not a problem. Nem could just claim an off day, the 'having a hard time of it' defence. Wasn't like anyone could prove otherwise. It wasn't like they hadn't put together a poster, even though this sort of thing wasn't their style at all. Well. The poster itself was. A bit. Some facts, some not-so-facts, and a healthy dose of missing out important elements. Never strikes twice in the same place? Not relevant to the narrative, goodbye. Nem hadn't messed about with poster board either. It was all scrawled out on a regular piece of parchment. Maybe Schmoe should have specified it was supposed to be a poster aimed at muggles. Sure, it was sort of implied, but that left a lot of room for interpretation. This should be a helpful reminder. Not bothering to wait for Schmoe feedback, Nem grabbed the tape and headed for the hallway to put up the poster. But really, what was that smell? As they went, Nem wrinkled their nose and scanned the room for the possible source. Miller? SPOILER!!: raw text STOP MAGIC POLLUTION magic in the atmosphere builds up and causes magical storms that will endanger your children studies show excess magic may one day suffocate the earth hand in your wands and let only the best among you use magic before it's too late #TheEndIsStillNigh #RheticusWillReturn #YouAreAllJustAsBad And put noodle man on edge, they did. Finneas was excited to see what Nemsis came up with, but errr.... before he had the chance to snoop.... Young Upstead was already out the door with their poster. Well. Er. That's. Er. That's fine! He wasn't upset at all! SPOILER!!: Bernie with the dank memes Quote: Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl Dooooooododoodoo... hang on... they only had FIVE MORE MINUTES?!! In a panic, Bernie hurried to finish her meme, which was rough and lazy and also the only kind of drawing she knew how to draw. She hurried out to the hallway to tape it up and then slouched against the wall next to a photo of.... Josh? Wow, was that him?! SPOILER!!: LAME LAME I'M LAME She was just relieved to be done in time. And last but not least on the tour around the classroom. Ms. Grantham. Finneas never knew what to expect when it came to Bernadette, but he has since attempted to adopt the practice of expecting the unexpected. A meme. Finneas CHUCKLED. It wasn't exactly the point, but he could appreciate the throwback to a previous lesson. "Ha ha ha... ho ho ho!" Good one, Bernie. AnYwAy. With all the students trickling back into the SMELLY room, Finneas thought it was a good time to go back to the STINKY storage closet and pull out the supplies necessary for this last portion of class. The BIG, STINKY reveal. This meant that there were a whole bunch of bags filled with rubbish sat at the front of the classroom now. So THAAAAT'S why the room smells so bad. It was all starting to make sense. Finneas, however, was immune to the smell for some odd reason. You are what you can't smell. Badda bing badda boom. He cleared his throat and attempted to call attention to the front of the room again with a desperate wave of his noodle arms. "Something that came up quite a number of times is an errr easy way to contribute to the lessening of pollution! That would be reducing, reusing, and recycling!" Were people taking notes? He paused just in case. "In our next few lessons we'll really dive into the topic of pollution further and discuss the BIG, BAD AND UGLY. We'll hopefully refine and gain an understanding of what a carbon footprint is and its role in the grand scheme of things... BUT! For now, we're looking at RECYCLING and waste!" He paused to take a great, deep breath. As one does. And then gulp a big sip of water. Because he was a thirsty man. "Not all materials can be recycled! You CAN recycle newspapers, magazines, papers, glass bottles and jars, plastics, cardboard, and aluminum cans. But you cannot recycle disposable wrappers, foam, food and liquid, items with food waste residue, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera..." That was a reference to The King and I! "When in doubt, check the product and see if it has a recycling symbol on it and errr... that will be a good bet that it can be recycled." He rummaged through his pile of things and stuff before finding the poster with the recycling logo on it. Could everyone see it??? Bet. "Mr. Miller's poster was right on the money today!" He motioned to the poster that the sixth year had drawn. It was front and center on the front board for ALL to see. "Today we will be doing our own trash dash of sorts... Er... But we will be competing. I will be splitting everyone into TWO distinct teams. One team will be TEAM POLLUTANTS and the other will be TEAM OZONE." Was he making sense? "For those of you who choose to be on team pollutant, you will come to the front and grab a bag filled with rubbish." Rubbish including empty plastic bottles, old clothes, drink cans, used tissues, rotten fruit, newspapers, YOU NAME IT! "Your task is to run around the room and pollute it with as much rubbish as possible." Maybe he ought to have provided gloves for this... OH WELL! Nothing like getting your hands dirty to prove a point. "Team Ozone, your mission is to save the classroom from pollution! You will either receive a bag for the collection of rubbish OR for the collection of recyclable items. Recalling our discussion on recyclable items (and using the helpful poster behind your professor), your mission is to collect as much of the displaced rubbish as possible. If you have a recycling bag, please be sure to ONLY pick up recycling items. And if you have a RUBBISH bag, stick to the rubbish!" He paused for questions. "Come up and grab what you need from the front. There will be a prize for the winning team!!! And then........ LET THE TRASH DASH, BEGIN!" OOC: Omg y'all, these posters were incredible and the catchphrases were so creative! Thanks for all your patience as we trudged along. We've made it to the final activity. And you'll have at least 65 hours! Things to keep in mind: 1. Specify whether you are Team Pollutant or Team Ozone in your post title, let's try to keep numbers relatively even. So if the person above you is Team Pollutant, then you'd be Team Ozone and vice versa. 2. Interact with one another! Remember, there are desks everywhere and people will be running this way and that. Lots of opportunity for chaos! You're also competing against the other team, so act accordingly! Team Pollutant: Your mission is to place as much trash around the room as possible - Grab a bag filled with garbage (empty plastic bottles, old clothes, drink cans, tissues, etc etc etc) - Run around the room and place the trash everywhere Team O-Zone: Your mission is to collect as much of the garbage as possible + You will either receive a bag that says RECYCLE or one that says RUBBISH + Run around the room and pick up recyclable items or rubbish items according to which bag you have been given __________________ Days of Potter 2023:___________________________ Which Bertie Botts Flavour Are You? You are Lemon!