Read the article above. Does it shock you as much as it shocked me? Is this legal? Where do they come from? Can anyone purchase them? Summarize the article in a scholarly paragraph with at least five sentences. Also I would like you to comment on at least one of your peer's responses. If this isn't creepy Halloween stuff, then I don't know what is.
Pick one of the articles above. Read the article and summarize what you learned. Remember that this should be a scholarly paragraph with at least 5 sentences. Somewhere in the paragraph, you need to mention which article you read. Is the Great Barrier Reef truly dead? What is next?
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901....now 115 years later, there are a grand total of 911 Nobel Laureates. How cool is that? A couple of weeks ago, the winners for 2016 were announced. This year Bob Dylan is the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Instead of reading his lyrics as music, scholars suggest reading the lyrics as poetry.
This week I want you to go on the official website of the Nobel Prize and pick one former or current Nobel Prize winner to write about. Ideally, I would love for there to be no repeats. Use the website to pick a winner and then give a brief synopsis of that person's life and contribution to society. The winner does not have to be a Medicine or Physiology Prize winner as there are also awards for Physics, Peace, Chemistry, Literature, and Economic Sciences. In a scholarly paragraph, (at the very least five sentences long with proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation) present a biography and a reason why they won the award.
Finishing our unit on Ecology, we will wrap up by discussing population ecology and biodiversity. The following video clip was one of the ones you picked out last week for me. I love it.
This is another great video clip that you picked out about overpopulation.
Watch the two video clips above and read the short article from Scientific American.
We will discuss Thomas Malthus in the Evolution Unit at the end of the school year, but what do you think right now? Do you agree that we are facing a huge problem of overpopulation? What will happen to resources? Does overpopulation have an effect on climate change? What do Trump and Clinton have to say about climate change? (You will have to do a little searching the internet for the answers.) What do you think we should do? What laws would you suggest to fix the problem?
In a scholarly paragraph (at least 5 sentences long), frame a response to the videos, article and questions above. If you chose to focus more on one than of the issues above, I am totally fine with that. Some students are really interested in the election; therefore, it would be interesting for you to write more about the political aspect of this problem. Others are definitely focused on biodiversity and saving the plants and animals of our planet, You may want to look at the rates of extinction. Are we facing another period of mass extinction? In addition to your post, you will also need to respond to at least one of your classmates.
