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You Choose: Graphit and Activity
Introduction and Alignment
For this assignment, you will choose from one of three different Graphit activities, as well as complete an interactive activity.
Upon completion of this assignment you should be able to:
- Analyze the consequences of unrestrained population growth on the earth.
Resources
- Textbook: Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future
- Media: Age Pyramids and Population Growth (Graphit)
- Media: Animal Food Production Efficiency and Food Policy (Graphit)
- Media: Global Oil Production and the Hubbert Curve (Graphit)
- Media: Water Pollution from Nitrates (Activity)
Background Information
Completing these Graphit activities can help you grow in your qualitative analysis skills.
Instructions
- Review Chapters 8, 12, and 14 in the textbook, Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future.
- Select one of the following Graphit activities to complete:
- Media: Age Pyramids and Population Growth (Graphit) answering any internally prompted question as you proceed through until the tutorial is completed. Please disregard any prompts to answer questions outside of the tutorial.
- Media: Animal Food Production Efficiency and Food Policy (Graphit) answering any internally prompted question as you proceed through until the tutorial is completed. Please disregard any prompts to answer questions outside of the tutorial.
- Media: Global Oil Production and the Hubbert Curve (Graphit) answering any internally prompted question as you proceed through until the tutorial is completed. Please disregard any prompts to answer questions outside of the tutorial.
- Disregard any prompts to answer any questions in the Graphit activities.
- View the media: Water Pollution from Nitrates (Activity)
- Write a 500- to 750-word summary of what you learned in the two activities. Be sure to reference specifics.
- Your assignment and all citations and references must be in APA format.
- When you have completed your assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit a copy to your instructor using the Dropbox by the end of the workshop.
Assessment Criteria
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Criteria |
12-15 POINTS |
8-11 POINTS |
4-7 POINTS |
0-3 POINTS |
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Quality |
Your summary is well developed and provides clear evidence of critical thinking. |
Some critical thinking is evident in your summary. |
Your summary shows only the beginnings of critical thinking. |
Your summary mostly reiterates the media resources. |
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Criteria |
4-5 POINTS |
3 POINTS |
2 POINTS |
0-1 POINT |
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Grammar, Spelling, Length, and Citation |
Your sentence structure is complete with correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, varied diction, and word choices. Your assignment length is correct with sources correctly cited and in APA format. |
Your sentence structure has minor errors (fragments, run-ons) with correct spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, but limited diction and word choices. Your assignment length is correct with sources correctly cited and in APA format. |
Your sentence structure has several errors in sentence fluency with multiple fragments/run-ons, poor spelling, punctuation, and/or word choice. Your assignment length is inadequate with several APA and citation errors. |
Your sentence structure has serious and persistent errors in sentence fluency, spelling, punctuation, and/or word choice. Your assignment length is inadequate with several APA and citation errors or sources not cited. |
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Total Points |
20 |
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