The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed. Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. (from http://www.earthday.org/)
Answer the following questions:
Do you worry about the environment? Why or why not?
Where do you learn about the environment?
What do you think the biggest problems facing the environment are?
Once you have posted your response, read the responses posted by your peers and reply thoughtfully to at least two other students. Compliment strong points, make connections, ask questions and build on ideas shared!
Think about what you will be doing in twenty years. Give me as many details as you can.
For example:
Where will you be living?
What will you be doing for a living?
What kind of car will you be driving?
What kind of house will you be living in?
Will you want to be married or still single?
And so on...
Please take your time and write at least 5 Sentences.
Once you have posted your response, read the responses posted by your peers and reply thoughtfully to at least two other students. Compliment strong points, make connections, ask questions and build on ideas shared!
Feel free to use any resource you would like to find the answer. Take your time and read the questions carefully. I want to try and eliminate all silly mistakes. :-)
I've tried to make things a little easier by embedded the quiz right into the blog. However, if you would like to see a full-screen version, just click this link.
It could be argued that our culture is now being fuelled by immediate gratification. When we want something, we want it now and more often than not, our wish is granted. For example, if we don't know something, we can look it up on-line and usually have the answer within seconds. Like a song you heard on the radio? You can easily download the song within minutes. If you are hungry and don't have the "time" to make something, any number of fast food restaurants are more than happy to cook you dinner in a record amount of time.
Watch the video below and answer the following questions:
- What are some other examples of people being unable or unwilling to wait?
- Is this a positive move in the right direction, or a negative one?
- Describe what is going through one of the kid's mind as (s)he tries to resist the temptation to eat the marshmallow.
Once you have posted your response, read the responses posted by your peers and reply thoughtfully to at least two other students. Compliment strong points, make connections, ask questions and build on ideas shared!
Kiln People is novel written by David Brin and I can't say as though I have read it (and therefore can't recommend it), but the concept of the novel is rather interesting.
Kiln People, is about a society where you can create clay copies of yourself to do various tasks (e.g. mental tasks, dangerous tasks etc.) while you do something else. Then at the end of the day, you download their memories back into you.
So, here is a pretty deep question for this week. If you had 5 copies of yourself to use this week, what would you have them do?
Once you have completed your answer, read and respond to at least 2 peers.
