The research question is: How are descriptive statistics utilized to analyze the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) within case studies?
In this research paper, it should include the following sections
Introduction: The first section of your paper; giving important background about the topic.
Thesis Statement: A clear statement of the main argument in your paper.
Topic Sentences: Clear statements of the main idea you want each paragraph to convey.
Sources: People or publications that provide evidence to support your thesis. Examples may include journal articles, books, online websites, videos, and people you interview. You must cite your sources when you use them in your paper.
The final research paper should include thso sectiosn above and also follow these guidelines
Analysis: When writers provide analysis, they explain how their evidence connects to their thesis.
Counterargument: An argument that disagrees with your position in the paper.
Implications & Discussion: The last section in an essay; it restates the thesis and the evidence that supports it. It sometimes also explains the thesis’s importance beyond the sources provided.
Please use these links to help you better understand descriptive statistics. To make it sound like I understand what descriptive statistics is about and how I am able to relate it to my research question.
https://www.visionlearning.com/en/library/Math-in-Science/62/Introduction-to-Descriptive-Statistics/218
https://www.visionlearning.com/en/library/Process-of-Science/49/Data-Analysis-and-Interpretation/154
these are the three sources I will be using
Johnson, K., Woodward, A., Swenson, S., Weis, C., Gunderson, M., Deling, M., Cristiani, V., & Lynch, B. (2017). Parents’ adverse childhood experiences and mental health screening using home visiting programs: A pilot study. Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.), 34(6), 522–530. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12345
Cole, A. B., Armstrong, C. M., Giano, Z. D., & Hubach, R. D. (2022). An update on ACEs domain frequencies across race/ethnicity and sex in a nationally representative sample. Child Abuse & Neglect, 129, 105686–105686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105686
Crouch, E., Nelson, J., Radcliff, E., & Martin, A. (2019). Exploring associations between adverse childhood experiences and oral health among children and adolescents. Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 79(4), 352–360. https://doi.org/10.1111/jphd.12341
Category: Natural science
This project requires to research a city or community that performs in a way that is characterized as unsustainable. Throughout the world there are many areas that have issues making them unsustainable for the people or for the environment.
In this project you are required to present a city/community that is acting unsustainably.
Describe the area you have selected (geographically, surroundings, population, industrial activity, agriculture, fishery, pollution, etc).
What are the factors that make it unsustainable?
Why is it necessary to shift the current status of the area?
What is the role of the local authorities so far?
Identify specific problems that must be solved.
For each of the problems identified, provide a detailed plan with solutions.
What local authorities should do to support the creation of a sustainable community?
What is the role of people to that process?
Based on your paper and the solutions you have suggested, which of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are met? (https://sdgs.un.org/goals)
Make sure you use the textbook for the proposal of solutions, along with other credible sources you find.
Important: You may choose any city/community you want (preferably one you have lived in) except of the following: Lagos, Nigeria and Mexico City, Mexico.
Writing Guidelines
Follow the 7th APA format style.
Fonts: Times New Roman, Size 12, double-spaced.
Length: 2000 – 3000 words, including the bibliography.
No abstract or table of contents are needed.
A cover page is needed including the title of the project and your name.
Introduction, main body and conclusion are the basic sections of the paper.
The main body should include subsections based on the questions you answer.
In-text citations and references are mandatory.
Make sure you paraphrase the information you use, and cite accordingly.
Plagiarism is not allowed and will be penalized according to the University’s policy.
All papers are scanned through the SafeAssign software of Blackboard.
For more about APA style follow the link:
Answer and Submit the second 5 entries as a pdf by 5/13/2024.
Week 6: Track your beauty impact – deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, other hair products, soap, shaving cream, lotions, make up… all of these things generally come in single use plastic that isn’t recycled or recyclable. They also often contain toxic ingredients, environmentally destructively sourced ingredients like palm oil, and other problematic components. Pay attention to your products. What is in them? Are they biodegradable? Is the packaging biodegradable? Are there alternatives that have less waste (consider shampoo and conditioner bars, shave bars, and other alternatives that reduce your plastic consumption, here is more info on zero waste beauty brands). Don’t throw out anything you’ve already bought, use it, but consider replacing it when it is done with a more sustainable option. Write a reflection in response to these questions and issues and your thoughts and plans for the future.
Week 7 option 1: If you menstruate, track the impact of your period products – “The Huffington Post calculates that the 70 percent of women who use tampons go through about twenty per menstrual cycle. Women have an average of 456 periods in their life, which translates to 9,120 tampons used. At an average price of seven dollars for a box of 36 tampons, the total amount women spend on tampons is approximately $1,773.33. ” You can save that space in landfills and money in your pocket by switching to reusable menstrual materials. How many disposable products do you use each period? Do that calculation for yourself to see what you would save your whole life by switching. Check out this article for options and more information. Read up on how you can reduce and reflect on your willingness or hesitation. I switched years ago and can’t even imagine buying that crap anymore. 🙂
Week 7 option 2: If you don’t menstruate: track your toilet paper use. Where is your toilet paper from? Can you find out? Are toxins involved in the production? Is it made from trees, bamboo, recycled paper, or something else? How much do you use? How much do most Americans use? Do some googling. I found this remarkable toilet paper calculator, check it out. Are there alternatives? Can you use less each time? Would you consider using a bidet or toilet cloths? Why or why not? TP is one of those things we use thoughtlessly, but has a huge impact. One site estimated that the average American uses 11,155 rolls of toilet paper in a lifetime, the equivalent of ~8 trees. Do you care? Are you interested in reducing that? How?
Week 8: Track your carbon footprint – many things that we do produce excess carbon dioxide. Your carbon footprint is the cumulative assessment of how your activities, from eating to driving, to charging your phone and being warm in the winter, contribute to your overall carbon footprint. Try at least two of the following carbon footprint calculators: WWF, Carbon Footprint, or this Terrpass footprint calculator (or another one of your choice!) to assess your own carbon footprint. Reflect on what you discover, compare and contrast what you liked or didn’t like about them, and what you learned. What are ways that you can reduce your carbon footprint?
Note: it is important to note that the “Carbon Footprint” concept was conceived and popularized by oil companies in an effort to put the attention of individuals to make change, not corporations or fossil fuel companies. Read more here – “Big Oil Coined Carbon Footprints to Blame us for Their Greed – Keep them on the hook”. Collective action addressing the harms of the fossil fuel industry remains critically important.
Week 9: Track your ecological footprint – Use this Ecological Footprint Calculator to estimate your whole Ecological Footprint. This calculator attempts to incorporate more than just your carbon footprint, including your impact on ecosystems more broadly. Try it, share, reflect. How does delving into your personal impact feel? How can we turn feelings of guilt into motivation? What are some ways that you can and will work to reduce your ecological footprint?
Week 10: Reflect on your tracking and journaling this semester. What have you learned? What have you changed? What will you keep working on changing to be more sustainable? How do you feel about collective action, climate activism, and more systematic ways of reaching for change?
As part of this Environmental Justice module, we will focus on hexavalent Chromium (Cr(VI)). Chromium occurs in 3 valent states Cr(III), and Cr(VI). Cr(VI) is the compound present in oxic environments.
Below are different resources to help you to understand the problem.
Please summarize on what you learned while reviewing the materials. Please focus on the following:
a) In terms of environmental justice what is necessary to help people living in poorer communities to deal with water contamination such as hexavalent chromium.
b) Please analyze the water composition for the City of Live Oak and the new minimum contamination level Ca has just introduced. Do you think the minimum containment level is low enough given the cost to clean the water?
c) What should be done if a location has groundwater Cr(VI)-levels just below the new Ca MCL standard?
Please inform yourself given the links below and upload your opinion in a word document.
Hexavalent Chromium is also of current interest because California the nation’s first water standard for cancer-causing contaminant to 10 ug/L just recently in April 2024.
Of course not every pollutant can be traced to some company or other human induced activity. Groundwater in some place has naturally elevated chromium.
Here are a couple links you can use for reasearch purposes:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chromium-water-cancer/
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/Chromium6.html#:~:text=Hexavalent%20chromium%20is%20among%20the,(%22Proposition%2065%22).
Lesson plans are vital to an organized classroom environment. Over the course of weeks 5-8, you will build a comprehensive weekly lesson plan that will include the following:
1. Traditional assessment
2. Field trip plan
3. Learning environment plan
4. Weekly lesson plan (6-7 days of instruction)
The final product (due week 8) will be submitted in APA format, and must include the weekly lesson plan template, traditional assessment, field trip, and learning environment plan.
REQUIREMENTS FOR WEEK 5
This week, you will develop an assessment (a unit test) of elementary school students’ learning on an Earth or Life Science topic. Assume the time available for the assessment is a single period of approximately 40-50 minutes. The test must be a minimum of 15 questions.
You may choose ONE of the following topics for your assignment*:
Fossils (3rd grade)
Planets and Stars (4th grade)
Energy flow in Ecosystems (4th grade)
Weather and Weather Processes (4th grade)
Geologic Processes (5th grade)
Cells and Cell Characteristics (5th grade)
*You will use this topic for the remainder of your scaffolded assignment (weeks 5-8).
When you are considering your topic, you want to consider a field trip that would be appropriate and fit the needs of the topic. Next week’s assignment will include a one-day field trip you take your students to reinforce the content.
1. To begin, create an APA* formatted title page. The title page should contain the following:
Topic
Grade Level
Student’s Name
Georgia Military College
*Check online resources for correct APA formatting (OWL Purdue is a good source).
2. Copy/paste the lesson plan template into the second page.
3. Using the following resource, find, and paste the standards* associated with your topic into the Georgia Standards of Excellence section of the lesson plan template.
Link to standards: https://www.georgiastandards.org/Georgia-Standards/Pages/default.aspx
*When you include GSE, you always write out the standard and substandard(s) being addressed (not just the codes). Example:
S3E1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the physical attributes of rocks and soils.
a. Ask questions and analyze data to classify rocks by their physical attributes (color, texture, luster, and hardness) using simple tests.
b. Plan and carry out investigations to describe properties (color, texture, capacity to retain water, and ability to support growth of plants) of soils and soil types (sand, clay, loam).
c. Make observations of the local environment to construct an explanation of how water and/or wind have made changes to soil and/or rocks over time.
4. Create a list of behavioral objectives* (begins with “Students will be able to…”) in the behavioral objectives section of your lesson plan template. The number of objectives might range from about 5 (if all are fairly high-level) to about 10 (if many are fairly low-level).
*You are not allowed to use the exact verbiage of the behavioral objectives from this course. This entire assignment should be your own work and your own questions.
5. Go to the first blank page in your document and begin including a combination of test questions of multiple-choice and short answer/essay/diagram (“constructed response”) questions. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE true/false, fill-in-the-blank, or matching-column questions.
6. Using the next blank page after your test questions, include a key to your test as well as how you will assign a points value to each question. For short answer /essay/diagram questions, discuss how you would award partial credit.
Use New Times Roman
Font – 12
Spacing – 1.5
Harvard referencing style
Deadline in 2 weeks.
Note: Assignments that will come after the deadline will have a deduction of 5 marks.
If there is life elsewhere in the universe, then why haven’t we seen it yet?
This simple question has come to be known as “The Fermi Paradox” and many scientists have struggled to find a suitable answer. In order for us to have an informed discussion about the topic, read this excellent article, which presents six possible explanations of why we haven’t found irrefutable evidence of life in the universe yet.
Choose the one proposed solutions that seems the most convincing to you. Explain why you think this is the best explanation.
THIS IS EXERCISE SCIENCE**
Paper format instructions:
This paper will be 5 pages minimum (not counting the cover page, and not counting the reference page).
Minimum 1250 (double-spaced, single-spaced after a word).
12 point font, times new roman.
1- inch margins.
Insert page numbers.
Topic
Proposal: Identify a topic
of interest covered in the course. You will write about a topic you want to learn more about
beyond what the textbook/lectures covered. What two lingering questions do you
have about this topic that you want to learn more about (so you can research the
answers and find resources to answer your questions).
-Title page required
-(Introduction) First sentence –
Introductory idea/transition into new idea
-(Body/evidence/commentary) 2nd
– 3rd sentences supporting main idea of the paragraph/learned
content/research evidence
-(Conclusion) 4th – 5th
closing ideas of the paragraph/transition to next paragraph.
Your citation resources are required to be comprised of the following:
Resource/Citation 1: Cite one or both textbooks. If you use both textbooks to cite from, it will only one
will count as 1 citation towards the 4 citations required.
Resource/Citation 2: Peer – reviewed resource. (ex: primary/secondary resources, (best) peer-reviewed
journals – found for free within the library)
Resource/Citation 3: Peer – reviewed resource. (ex: primary/secondary resources, (best) peer-reviewed
journals)
Resource/Citation 4: Non-peer reviewed/non-scientific resource. (ex: news articles, magazine articles,
opinion-pieces)
Resource/citation 5: Non-peer reviewed /non-scientific resource. (ex: news articles, magazine articles,
opinion-pieces)
Learing Objectives/Points for paper
– the use and abuse of pharmacological agents in exercise and athletics
-the use and abuse of nutritional supplements in exercise and athletics
-the use and abuse of physica; assistive devices in exercise science and athletics
What is the impact of changing a certain law connected to Cannabis to another societal issue? (Do states that have legal adult use Cannabis recreational) show any decrease in arrests for drunk driving / lower rates of opioid abuse / fewer people in prison / more people arrested for narcotics/opioids / smaller incidence of people being harmed while vaping (popcorn lung) / etc..
For this assignment, you will select, review, and analyze a recent journal article (published
within the last 5 years) from a peer-reviewed publication (e.g. (a) American Journal of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene, (b) Emerging Infectious Diseases, and (c) The Journal of Infectious
Diseases) about a disease or topic found in the readings. You must evaluate the chosen paper
against at least four (4) other peer-reviewed sources. You may cite your selected journal article
in the article review. However, the reference will not count as one of the required four (4) peer-
reviewed sources. You will then compose a journal article review paper, consisting of 4–5 pages
in length, not including the cover page and references, double-spaced on standard-sized paper
(8.5″ x 11″), with 1″ margins on all sides, on your selected peer-reviewed publication topic. The
paper must contain the following sections: (a) An Introduction; (b) an Article Summary; (c) an
Epidemiology of Infectious Disease section that includes a description of the impact of the
disease and best practices or standards of care related to the disease; (d) Compare and Contrast
Paragraph(s); and (e) an Evaluation and Critique section
Citation should be AMA style