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Monday, February 27, 2012

Urban planning Presentation

Choose an area of the United States.
Explain how it has been planned.

Explain what issues currently are occurring in the setting

Explain how you would plan the city to deal with these issues.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

GMO Essay examples

Student responses

Read and score

The summary of scoring is on teh last couple of pages DON"T CHEAT BY SKIPPING AHEAD!!!!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Thursday 12/15

Finish Watching film on gmo's

When done tackle the following essay question on GMO's

Peer Score using this Rubric

After GMO QUESTION

Do this essay on HPG

Peer Score using this rubric


After completing assignment please report score here

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Tuesday 2/14 Assignment

Present your disease/disorders

Use the projector with the ipads.

Ask Anderson for help if needed.

If done before the end of class continue watching GMO film. It is siting on top of the vcr

Friday, February 10, 2012

Nova/Frontline: Harvest of Fear

Key concepts you need to have about GMO's

How are GMO's made?

How does this differ from traditional agricultural techniques of selective breeding for advantageous traits?


How do GMO's represent a possible solution to the food crisis looming over the growing world population?

What are the environmental concerns associated with GMO's?

Create a list of 3 specific examples where GMO's have failed. (this failure could be biological, political, ecological) Include in your description:
A. what was the modification and what were the advantages of the modification?
B.what leads you to believe that this was a failure?
C. what was the impact of this failure?

Where do you fall on the use of GMO's ?  Be able to defend your position.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Thursday 2/9

1. Choose a disease or disorder associated with either
a. Undernurishment
b. Malnurishment
c. Overnurishment

2. Post your diesease/disorder in the comments section of this post so we don't have duplicates of the same disease/disorder among classmates.

3. Create a series of slides that contain the following information about your disease/disorder.
a. Description
what causes the disease/disorder? (be specific)
b. Pathology
what are the biological effects? are they the same for infants, children, adults, elderly?
c. Demographic Information (data needed for this slide)
what population is this disease/disorder commonly found in?  is it regional? if so where? How frequent is it?
d. Historic significance (data needed for this slide)
How has the frequency or intensity of this disorder changed throughout time.  Look both long term from hunters and gathers through today as well as in the last 50 years
e.Solutions
How can this be solved?  What steps are already in place? how are they working? how could they be improved? What does the future hold for solving these issues?

Sources for this information include:
CDC
UN/WHO global health report

WIKIPEDIA CUTTING AND PASTING WILL NOT GET THIS DONE!!!!!!!!!!
Make sure you have specific data to support your statements.

Also remember that these are slides for a presentation. Keys to good slides include few words and quality graphics.  A graph is way more powerful then a paragraph.