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Spring Term Assignments for Science and Society
HOOP DREAMSVideo
Notes
In order to complete the Hoop Dreams project, you must complete
all of the following questions: 1)
Briefly
describe each of the following characters: Arthur
Agee Sheila Agee (Arthur’s Mom) Bo
Agee (Arthur’s Dad) William
Gates Emma Gates (William’s Mom) Curtis Gates (William’s Brother) Catherine
Gates (William’s Wife) 2)
Sometimes we get behind in school and want to give up. When
William entered St. Joseph's in ninth grade, tests showed he was working on a
fourth or fifth grade level.
In just one year he caught up with his class. How do you think he did
this? 3)
In the movie, Emma Gates states: "I was going to make sure all of
my children got through high school. A high school diploma was very important to
me." Why
do you think high school graduation was so important to Mrs. Gates? What
are some of the reasons why many students don't graduate? Do
you know someone who did not finish school? Why
do you believe that they did not finish school? 4)
A Hoop Dreams survey showed that more than 90% of middle and high school students want
to graduate from high school. Is there
anything that might stop you from graduating from high school?
How can you
overcome these obstacles? How can people
help you? 5)
William believed that basketball was his only way to get to college, but
his girlfriend, Catherine, disagreed. Who do you think is right, Catherine or
William? Explain why. 6)
Arthur had never effectively planned for college admission. Even when he graduated from
summer school, he was academically unprepared for a 4-year college.
Did attending Mineral Area Junior College help Arthur reach his
basketball and academic goals? What are the benefits of going to a community or junior
college? 7)
For every decision a person makes in life, there is a direct result.
Every action has a reaction. In Hoop Dreams, several people took steps that
influenced future successes - and problems. A)
William studied hard at St. Joseph's. What were the results? B)
Bo Agee had a serious drug problem. What consequences did he pay? C)
How did going into a drug rehabilitation program change Bo Agee's life? 8) After viewing the film, complete the following Have
you told parents other family members that you are interested in education
beyond high school.
Answer
the following questions based on your current school performance. How
good are your grades? What
are your strengths and weaknesses? Are
you doing your best? What
could you do to improve your chances for high school success? How
can others help you success in school? Name someone you can trust (a teacher, coach or other mentor) who can give you guidance in planning your education beyond high school. Project After
viewing the film, participating in discussions, completing assigned readings and
taking lecture notes, complete the following. This assignment is worth 100 points.
A.
St.
Joseph’s High School B.
Marquette
University C.
The
Portland Trailblazers 6.
After viewing the film, create a pie chart, which you believe best
illustrates how Arthur or William used their time during their freshman and
sophomore year in high school. Make
sure one of the slices represent basketball.
Next, imagine that the player you graphed came to you at the beginning of
their junior year and asked you how they could better utilize their time?
Create a new graph, which illustrates your answer, and write a paragraph,
which explains how the changes in investment of time and energy would be
worthwhile. See sample graph.
(10 points) 7.
Create a graph for each player, which demonstrate their value to a
division one college over their four years in high school.
Plot a point for each year. For
each graph, write a paragraph, which explains why the demand for each player
changed over time. (10 points) 8.
Create a chart which describes three economic problems faced by either
William’s or Arthur’s family. Your
chart must state the following: A.
The Economic Problem B.
The reasons for the problem C.
The possible solutions from the perspective of the family Below
the chart, write paragraphs to answer the following question:
Are these economic problems beyond the control of the family?
Explain. (10 points) 9.
Write a complete essay on ONE of the following questions: (35 points) B. Welfare Reform has become a major economic issue in the
United States. Using example from
Hoop Dreams as well as other examples, propose a new program, which you believe,
would make welfare more economically efficient.
A.
Choose one of the following social problems described in the film: 1.
Divorce 2.
Racism 3.
Drug Abuse 4.
Gang 5.
High Drop Out Rate from School
After choosing your issue, explain how the selected problem is an
economic issue, provide an economic solution and state the opportunity costs for
implementing your solution, make sure you are persuasive in justifying the
costs. 10. After reading the recent up-date, write a paragraph for each player, which describes what you think each will be doing five years from now. (5 points) Due: Thursday April 26, 2001 A
Natural Selection Activity BACKGROUND
A wide range of coloration is very common for
some kinds of organisms. One has
only to look at our own species to realize this.
After all, think of how many skin tones there
are, how many variations in hair color and eye color!
This holds true for organisms in nature as well.
Coloration can be beneficial or harmful, depending upon what it is being
used for. Color often serves as a
warning, as an attraction to lure mates, or as a camouflage.
Sometimes, coloration can end up being a means of survival. This activity considers the survival of
individual populations on the basis of how well they blend with their habitat. DIRECTIONS 1.
Select
the habitat "fabric" for your experiment. 2.
Select ten (10) colored dots of each color. (10
x 10 = 100) This
is your starting gene frequency. 3.
Scatter
your colored dots onto the habitat fabric randomly. 4.
Pick
off ("eat") 50 dots from the habitat. Use care not to be overly selective, but merely pick off
those you see easily and quickly. 5.
Count
and record the number and colors of the "victims"
(the dots you picked off) on your data table on the attached page. 6.
From
your reservoir stock of dots, select and place on you "habitat"
numbers of each colored dot that are needed to double the number
remaining on the fabric. This is reproduction
of the survivors! (Example:
if six blue dots remain on your fabric, put six more blue dots on the
fabric) 7.
Report
your counts on the data table. These
are your new gene frequencies. 8.
Repeat
steps 4 - 7 two more times, keeping track of the counts of "victims"
(population loss) and "offspring" (population gains) and overall gene
frequencies on the data table. 9. Graph
the population increases and decreases, with population numbers on the y-axis
and life cycles (time) on the x-axis. QUESTIONS (Do after completing the simulation) 1. Describe
your "habitat" fabric. 2.
On
the basis of your habitat, what appears to be the colors that blended in the
best? (the colors which had the highest number increase.)
3.
If
the gene frequencies of each color dot at the beginning of the simulation were
10%, what were the final gene frequencies for each color dot at the end of the
of the simulation? Brown
_____ White ____
Black ____ Red ____ Orange
____ Yellow ____
Pink ____ Green ____
Lt. Blue ____ Dk. Blue ___ 4.
Were
any colored dot populations rendered extinct?
Which? 6. Is
protective coloration an important factor in the wild?
How do you know? (Give an example from nature) 8. Describe
how natural selection influences evolution (change in species over time.) 9. Describe what happened in England to the peppered moth in the early part of the 20th century.
GLOBAL WARMING& THEGREENHOUSE
EFFECT
Directions: After viewing the film Earth at Risk: Global Warming, and researching the websites listed below, answer the following questions. Earth at Risk Video
q Earth with no atmosphere q Earth with atmosphere as it is now q Earth with atmosphere like Venus
q With constant emissions q With reduced emissions q
With increased emissions
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Websitewww.epa.gov/globalwarming.index.html
q Temperature q Precipitation q
Sea Level
q CO2 (carbon dioxide) q CH4 (methane) q N2O (nitrous oxide q HFC- 23 (hydroflourocarbons) q CF4 (carbon tetraflouride) q SF6 (sulfur hexaflouride)
q Plants q Oceans
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Websitewww.epa.gov/globalwarming.index.html (cont.) 11. What were the % of the greenhouse gas contributions for 1998 for carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and HFC's? What were the primary contributors of each of those 4 gases?
14. What are some potential impacts for Oregon’s climate?
q Health q Water Resources (navigation, hydroelectric power, water supply and demand, water quality and recreation, flood control) q Forests q Rangelands q Deserts q Coastal Zones q Agriculture q Fisheries q Birds
q Clean Energy q Energy Efficiency q Industry q Transportation q Waste q Agriculture and Forestry
Global Warming: Early Warning Signs Website
q Africa q Asia q Antarctica q Europe q Oceania q North America q
South America
q Africa q Asia q Antarctica q Europe q Oceania q North America q
South America
Scrapbook #4 GOING TO EXTREMESThe Impacts of Global Warming
Directions: After
researching global warming and the greenhouse effect on the Web, through video,
classroom readings and discussions, answer the following questions.
ex:
ex:
Include a hard copy of your letter in the scrapbook and send or email copies Video Notes
Directions: AS you watch the video, Affluenza, answer the following questions: 1. Define Affluenza 2. What are the 9 symptoms of Affluenza? 3. Do you have Affluenza? To what degree? 4. What are some solutions to Affluenza?
Scrapbook #5 Is There A Cure?
Directions: After viewing the film Affluenza and participating in class discusions, complete the following questions: 1. Define Affluenza. 2. List the nine symptoms of Affluenza. After each symptom, write a one sentence example. 3. Considering all the symptoms of Afflusneza, which symptom impacts you the most? Write a one paragraph explanation. 4. Fact: Since 1950, Americans have used more resources than everyone who ever lived before them.
5. Generate a creative supplement (visual) that reflects both the problem and the cure for Affluenza.
Answer the following questions using the CNN website: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/energy.crunch/ 1.
From the front page of CNN.com’s in-depth special on The Energy
Crunch click on The Energy Debate: Bush vs. Clintona. List the 6 main points of President Bush’s Energy Policy b.
List the 5 main points of former President Clinton’s Energy Initiatives 2. Go back to the main page. From there, click on The Bush Energy Plan a. Outline the 3 main parts of Bush’s Proposed
Energy Plan. 3. Go back to the main page and then look under the Issues column. Click on the first link: Report: Power Crunch and read the article. a. What can California expect this summer in terms of the energy shortage? b. What other states will need to be careful? c. What can California energy consumers expect in terms of rate hikes for electricity? d. What role does the Pacific Northwest play in California’s energy crisis? 4. Go back to the main page and then look under the Facts and Figures column. Click on the link: Power Generation a.
What are the 6 sources of electrical energy (power) in the US and what percentage of the entire power
sources do they make up? 5.
Go back the main page and the Facts and Figures column. Now click
on the link: World Energy
Consumption a. What are the largest sources of energy consumption in order from greatest to least. b.
Which is the only source that has actually decreased form 1989 to 1998 6.
Go back to the main page and the Facts and Figures column. Now
click on the link: World
Electricity Consumption a. Which three countries are the largest consumers of electricity? b.
How much larger of a consumer is the US to China?
Compare. 7.
Go back to the main page and the Facts and Figures column.
Now click on the link: Annual
CO2 Emissions a.
Compare the United States to other leading regions in terms of CO2
emissions 8.
Go back to the main page and now go to the Interactive column.
Click on the link for Global Oil Production. a. What is OPEC and how much of the world’s oil reserves do they have? Name eight of the countries that belong to OPEC (they are the red regions on the map). b. Click on each section of the map and make notes on the following for each country: 1. Oil Production in millions of barrels a day 2. Oil Exports in millions of barrels a day 3. Oil Reserves in billions of barrels 4. % Contribution to the worlds oil production c. What are the top three oil producing nations in the world? d. What are the top three nations in terms of oil reserves? e. What are the top three oil exporting countries? f. Because there is an imbalance between those countries who have oil and those countries who use the most oil, what economic implications does that have for those who have the oil? For those who use the oil? Obtain a Chapter 15 packet form the Environmental Science textbook and complete the following: 1. Do Activity 15.1 - Graph the US and World Oil Production and Consumption adn answer teh Analysis and Conclusion Q's 2. Write Topic Sentences for each paragraph in Chapter 15. 3. Answer the Concept Review Questions 1-5 at the end of the Chapter.
The Story of Coal Mining and Unions
Directions:After watching the film, Matewan, and participating in class discussions, answer the following questions:
o Provide reasons and examples to support the use of coal as an energy resource. o Provide reasons and examples to not support the use of coal as an energy resource.
(Consider economic, health, and environmental impacts.) 3. Explain why the miners and citizens of Matewan, West Virginia were divided in their support for the development of a worker’s union. 4. On
the spectrum below, place yourself where you feel you philosophically are
with regards to each of the following statements: A. Unions should be heavily restricted by government, because they restrict business and slow down the economy. B. Unions should be prohibited from striking. C. Corporations cannot be trusted to pay workers a fair and decent wage. D. Unions are the only way to force corporations to provide fair wages and safe working conditions. Analyze where you fall on the spectrum for the above statements and write one paragraph that explains your opinion about the need for unions in the 21st century.
Do not agree
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Fully agree
5. Create a two-part visual. Part I: For the Stone Mountain Mining Company encourage workers to come towork in Matewan, West Virginia. Part II: For the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) encouraging workers to support a union. (For ideas, see http://www.matewan.com )
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