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Human Health and Environment
This is a multi-step assignment. Ensure you take your time on each step.
Complete research based on the following prompts:
- How can computers have a negative impact on human health?
- How can computers have a negative impact the environment (flora, fauna, water, rocks, etc.)?
Once you have all of your research, complete all of the following:
- Create a visual story via a poster or diorama that uses no words, that narratively describes the negative effects of computers on human health (physical health, mental health, etc.).
- Create a mind map that shows the negative effects of computers on the environment. Your mind map should break things down into specific examples. Include imagery at final branches on the mind map.
Free online infographic tools are available here, here, and here. There are more available if you don't like the ones above (a quick search using your favorite search engine will find you some more).
You have access to free mind map tools through the BYOD page. Your teacher will show you sample tools for creating mind maps.
In a word-processing document, answer the following prompts:
- What is the overall narrative you are attempting to portray?
- Describe why you chose each particular image and how each of the images support that narrative. Provide specific justification.
- How might your visuals be misconstrued to have a different meaning? What might those alternative meanings be?
- Cite your work using IEEE format.
- Cite all images used from the internet. You can provide a list of hyperlinks to the images used.
- If you used images directly from an infographic tool, you do not have to cite those.
Submit your poster, mind map, and word-processing document.
Please see the due dates page for more details on when this is due and how to submit your work.
The Overarching Learning Goal for this is Digital Citizenship. The specific Learning Goal(s) for this include:
- We are learning to promote environmental stewardship, sustainability, and ethical uses of computers.
| Success Criteria | What we are looking for when assessing this work ("Look Fors") |
|---|---|
| I can describe the negative effects of computers on human health. 📗 | * ability to describe negative effects, * quality and quantity of effects, * non-duplication of effects, * variety of effects, * justification of why you chose those effects, * clear story and flow to work |
| I can describe the negative effects of computers on the environment. 📗 | * mind map communicates thorough research, * easily identify negative effects, * non-duplication of effects, * organized multi-level branching mind map |