In today's session we learnt all about pigs and the environment. We were given some homework that taught us about what green house gases are and the effect of methane on the environment. If you didn't already know pigs produce a lot of methane and waste! However the pork industry is working really hard to become more sustainable, so we all gathered to view a PowerPoint presentation all about it. We learnt that you can turn pig waste into asphalt roads, worm farms and even compost. The most interesting thing they do with methane is turning it into energy and it can power so many houses with just 500 sows (mother pigs, yeah we learnt that too). Check out our photo gallery for more information. After that we brainstormed about how we can reuse the waste we produce at home. We then used plastic water bottles to transform them into little piggies! Finally we arrived for our first visit to Matraville Sports High School to work on the Archibull together. We all gathered together in the art classroom and met Miss Trovato and Miss Robinson for the first time! First, we played a few ice breaker games so we could get a bit comfortable with everyone. We started off with chicken and the egg and some word games. They were great fun! After that, we were introduced to our industry and had a really great talk about what the pork industry was about. Miss Trovato showed us some past examples of videos, info-graphs and final archies which gave us lots of inspiration. It was finally time to let our archie free (to be named...) and he/she motivated us to develop some design ideas before we went home with some homework about pigs and the environment Tune in to our next post to see what unfolds... Check out the photos and video snippets below of our porkin' time
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