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Upcoming Assignments
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Past Assignments
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Final Environmental Assignment
Weeks 7-8 final assignment
assignment: write a proposal for the best location of the new resort for ecoathletica.
Problem: You are an ecologist who has been chosen to help decide which location would be best suited for a new resort. Your ultimate goal is to use your expertise to pursuade the ecoathletica group where to build the resort.
Perform research to complete the assignment using the following resources:
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Child Poverty and Family Economic Hardship Questions
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Essay--Education and Poverty
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Earth Day Web Hunt
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Consequences of Sustainable Land Use
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Oceans of Plastics--Questions
Assignment: Oceans of Plastics Questions
Great Pacific Garbage Patch video
Fate of a Plastic Bottle Video
Plastics in the Ocean Research video
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Plastics and the Home Project
How can you help?
Picture your day. Start with your morning routine. Toothbrush. Shower. Work. School. Lunch. Shopping.
Now, picture yourself going through your day without a single piece of plastic. Can you do it?
We depend on plastic. It permeates all parts of modern life. But you can help make sure the plastic you use doesn’t make the journey to the bottom of the ocean. The old three-point plan still holds water: Reduce drastically the amount of single-use plastics you use; switch to containers and other convenience items that can you can reuse; and recycle what you no longer need.
As you journey through your day, take a closer look at your choices when it comes to plastic. And consider how every little action can help turn the tide for plastic pollution.
Assignment:
- Make a log of your day and include what is made of plastic throughout your day.
- Devise a plan to help reduce the plastic that is put in the trash.
- Explain how you would convince your family to reduce the amount of plastics they use.
- Make a flyer you can post to remind your family of the importance of reducing plastics at your home.
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Assignment 1--Global Warming Questions
(Use the Global Warming resources to answer the following questions.)
- How much has the global temperature risen in the last century?
- What is the major human activity that contributes to global warming and why?
- What is the greenhouse effect?
- Is average global temperature rising? What is your evidence?
- Which greenhouse gases are at their highest levels in history?
- What do researchers predict will happen?
- What can we do now to slow the rise in temperatures?
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Assignment 2--Text-Dependent Questions and Writing Prompt for Complex Text
(Read the Article Title: Warming Arctic May Be Causing Jet Stream to Lose Its Way, then do the following.)
Vocabulary Questions:
- Use context clues to explain the meaning of circuitous as it is used in the second paragraph.
- Why is the winter weather in the U.S. and Britain described as “persistently severe” in the fourth paragraph?
Text Evidence/Content Questions:
- Why does the author describe the jet stream as a “conveyor belt” for weather? Explain his metaphor in your own words.
- According to the text, how might future weather conditions change if the jet stream becomes weaker? Explain how weather can become “stuck” in one location.
- Describe how Arctic ice acts as a “lid” to keep the temperature differences greater between the ice caps and the tropics.
Writing Prompt:
Using details and text evidence from the last two paragraphs of the article, explain how the ocean has a significant influence on climate change by absorbing, storing and moving heat.
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Coral Reefs and Climate Change
Student Project
Week 1--April 1-7, 2020
Objective: Students should understand the effects of acidification in oceans and be able to report about climate change and the effects on coral reef systems.
Students will display what they have learned on a poster, flyer or Powerpoint presentation for a test grade. The project should include the past, present, and future predictions of amounts of CO2 absorbed in the ocean as well as other important information that you would like to present to someone to educate or inform them of what is happening to coral reefs as well as what steps can be taken to address the following questions:
- Why should we care about ocean acidification?
- Why do we care about what is happening to the coral reefs?
- Do you think we are going to have a problem with ocean acidification in the future?
- What are some ways that we can help combat this problem?
Please be sure to use the rubric to help you to be successful while you work on your project.