Morrison - Current Events MS (Section Tues 3) Assignments

Please fill out a nomination form on any person or organization working to address the issue of female illiteracy.

Please complete a nomination form on a person or organization working for more humane treatment of animals in pet mills.

Please complete a nomination form on any program or project related to space exploration.

Please complete a nomination form on any organization working to address the issue of ocean acidification or the coral bleaching (death of the reefs) that results from it.

Please complete a nomination form on solving the problem of cybercrime.

Please find three projects, programs, organizations, or strategies dedicated to helping people monitor and/or manage their screen time in a healthy way.  Then, fill out your Screen Time Reflection sheet.

Please complete a nomination sheet on this issue of the exotic animal trade.

Please complete a nomination sheet on reasons for studying animal intelligence or current findings on animal intelligence.

Welcome back!!! Please research a problem that polymers are used to solve in any field of your choice (space program, medicine, agriculture, environmental problems, structural engineering, manufacturing, electronics, textiles, safety, bioplastics, etc.). You can find information by searching your area of interest + polymer applications. It may also help you to click on “Images” or “Videos” if detailed articles are all you see in your initial search. Then fill out a nomination sheet on the coolest applications you can find.

This week you can choose from two options to fill out your nomination sheet:

Option 1 - Research new brain-computer interface technologies.

Option 2 - Research new advances in neuromorphic computer chip technologies.

This week you can choose from two options to fill out your nomination sheet:

Option 1 - Research new advances in virtual reality technology.

Option 2 - Research a new application of virtual reality technologies.

Please complete a nomination sheet on the issue of helping reduce mistreatment of people with disabilities.

Please complete a nomination sheet on the issue of alternative energy.

Please complete a nomination form on the issue of climate change.

This week’s homework is going to be a little bit different because it leads into next week’s lesson.  The problem we are trying to solve this week is achieving energy security for the United States.  Energy security is defined as having enough access to supply the country’s energy needs at a cost that is affordable.  If nations don’t have energy security, they usually have to go to war to get access to the resources they need so it is a BIG deal!  Some people and companies in the United States argue that fracking for natural gas is a good way to achieve energy security because burning natural gas to produce electricity produces a lot less greenhouse gasses than coal.  Others say that fracking causes earthquakes, wastes water, is dangerous, and that we should switch entirely from fossil fuels to renewable, clean sources of energy.  Please write a minimum of one well-developed paragraph (5-8 sentences) explaining your personal position on this controversial issue.  Be sure to start your paragraph with a thesis claim sentence and back up your opinion with specific facts (with numbers if possible).  Then be sure to cite the sources of your facts.

Please complete a nomination form on the issue of food production and agricultural advances that improve it.

Please complete a nomination sheet on the issue of Endangered Species.

Please complete a nomination form on the issue of Deforestation.

Please complete a Nomination Form on people, technologies, or organizations working to reduce plastic pollution.

Please complete a nomination form on any extreme human ability.  One way to approach this might be to take a look at the Guinness Book of World Records for record setters.

Please complete a nomination form on anything related to advances in transportation technologies.  Your nominations can be for transportation technologies themselves like the Hyperloop technology we looked at in class, new transportation applications like commercial space travel, or for things associated with transportation like building highways that act as solar power collectors.  There is a lot of cool stuff out there!!!!!

Please complete your nomination form on the topic your class chose.

Great job in class today!  You do not have homework this week so we don't get ahead of Monday's class (they don't have school next Monday for Labor Day).  Have a great week!