Category: Environment

A constructive learning environment consists of collaboration between educators and students

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A constructive learning environment consists of collaboration between educators and students. Educators need to include the students in the learning process, articulate the learning objectives, and set learning goals that are appropriate for a variety of learners.

Review the data received from the pre-assessment implemented in “Clinical Field Experience C.” This data will determine where learning gaps might be and how individual students are demonstrating their knowledge. Use the “Intervention and Goal Setting Template” to complete this assignment. Using the same standard selected for the pre-assessment, create one intervention activity that can be implemented with the three students you assessed. This activity must include instruction and a post-assessment, and be differentiated to meet all learning needs of the students.

Implement the activity and a post-assessment to complete the assessment cycle.

Review the data and provide feedback individually with each of the three students. Your feedback must be a description of 50-100 words per student.

During the feedback, set 2-3 appropriate goals with each student that challenges them to grow in an area that is specific to their needs.

Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the teacher in providing instruction and support to the class.

In no more than 250 words, reflect on your feedback session with each student. Discuss how you modified your conversation based on student response to make it meaningful and appropriate for each student. Remember to be cautious to protect confidentiality of the student.

External And Internal Environments

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Choose the two segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose:
Assess how the two high-ranking segments in the general environment influence the corporation and the industry in which it operates.
Considering the Five Forces of Competition, choose the two you estimate to be the most significant for the corporation you chose:
Evaluate how well the corporation addressed two of the Five Forces of Competition in the last five years.
With the same two forces in mind, predict how the corporation could improve its ability to address these forces in the next 5-10 years. Support your response with relevant, specific evidence.
Consider the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation:
Assess how the corporation should deal with its most serious external threat and its greatest opportunity. Support your position with two pieces of specific evidence.
Consider the selected corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses:
Determine the strategy or tactic, as explained in the textbook, the corporation should use to maximize its strengths and the strategy or tactic the corporation should use to minimize its greatest weakness. Support your choices with specific evidence.

Landscape Changes: The Consequences of Climate Change

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Landscape Changes: The Consequences of Climate Change
After reviewing all of the learning materials from this week please prepare an ~10 minute long presentation that you have added narration over discussing
how the natural environment is impacted by climate change. In your presentation be sure to discuss:
How climate change impacts landscapes on a global scale.
Provide and thoroughly explain at least two examples.
How climate change impacts landscapes on a regional scale (countries and continents).
Provide and thoroughly explain at least two examples.

Solar and wind power

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Solar and wind power are being trumpeted by politicians, teachers, activists, and many in the news media as the environmentally correct ways to supply the energy needs of this country and as sources of energy that can (and must) replace fossil fuels like coal, natural gas, and oil. Solar and wind are seen as “clean” and viable alternatives to fossil fuels. However, there is another side. Let’s take a look at some writings (and a video) that take a skeptical view of solar and wind as viable solutions to the environmental problems caused by the use of fossil fuels.

Environmental degradation

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Many forms of environmental degradation are caused by entities and factors beyond our individual control. Some, however, are factors we each can influence, and can do so nearly every day of our lives. Think about what you have learned during this week about solid and liquid waste.

In your journal entry, consider your level of knowledge about the processing and fate of materials that enter the waste stream before you took the class. In your journal,

Explain if you had a nuanced understanding of how garbage and sewage disappeared yet posed a continued hazard to humanity.
Critique your awareness: Did you worry about these wastes or just thought that they were someone else’s problem (if, while being honest, you thought about it much at all)?
Examine which ethnic groups are more commonly impacted by solid and liquid waste pollution and why.
Conclude with how your thinking has changed since taking this class.
Share how your attitudes and planned actions have changed regarding waste disposal.

 

The top environmental health concerns of your city or town

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Research the top environmental health concerns of your city or town, using government (.gov) websites or credible news outlets (such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution), and post your “Top Five” list.
Include links to the sources in which you found your health concerns.
Place these concerns in what you consider descending order of importance (i.e., #1 is most important, #5 is least important).
What employment opportunities might pertain to these environmental health concerns?
Check out the following resources from Career Services to help you identify these opportunities:
Public Health Jobs
Professional Development from the APHA American Public Health Associate website.
You can also visit the career section of your state’s public health department website and search for relevant positions.
To what extent are these concerns relevant to the environmental health objectives presented in Healthy People 2030?

 

ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON INTELLIGENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT

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Intelligence tests are controversial, partly because they sometimes determine important aspects of people’s lives. For example, intelligence test scores have factored into determining school placement, identifying giftedness, and diagnosing mental retardation and learning disabilities. Even when an intelligence test shows that a child has normal intelligence, there might be speculation of a learning disability due to him or her falling behind in academic achievement. A child’s biology and environment influences his or her academic achievement, as well. Children from different cultures and socioeconomic status have diverse experiences, beliefs, and attitudes that affect their academic achievement. There are also differences in skills that caregivers emphasize during a child’s development that contribute to a child’s school readiness, which influences intelligence and academic achievement.

Intelligence and academic achievement are often used to determine many aspects of a person’s life, including the diagnosis of a learning disability. Most identifiers of learning disabilities are seen within the realm of intelligence and achievement. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 is an example of a federal mandate that allows for identification of indicators of learning disabilities, such as limited response to intervention or a meaningful discrepancy between a student’s intelligence and achievement scores. When diagnosing a learning disability in determining a child’s intelligence, a combination of indicators is more accurate than a single test score.

For this Discussion, you will explore the differences between intelligence and academic achievement (as opposed to other types of achievement). You also will examine environmental and/or biological influences on intelligence and academic achievement.

 

 

 

 

Water Scarcity (Human Ecology)

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The topic for this Research Paper Is; Water Scarcity (Human Ecology)

The research paper must be a minimum of Total Five full pages, 12-point font, double spaced, APA format with a separate cover page and reference page.

The following must be covered in the paper:

Give a complete explanation of why your topic is a human ecology issue and assess different points of view, assumptions, and/or arguments regarding your topic.
Describe the issue in terms of its effect on the interrelationship of the physical, biological, and ecological systems.
Describe the impacts on the environment resulting from human decisions related to this issue.(Criteria needed to complete research paper): Analyze physical, biological ecological systems band their interrelationship as it relates to the human ecology, describe the impacts on the environmental system resulting from the human decision in the response to the human ecology, assess the different points of view, assumptions ,and /or arguments regarding the human ecology, Rules of grammar, spelling and punctuation are followed. sentence well constructed, complete, clear and concise