Information Literacy

Search the internet for an instance of earnings mismanagement or fraud, committed by a company in your pathway. Answer several questions about the case.

Students are asked to complete a financial statement analysis on a publicly traded company in the education sector.

The students will calculate animal population using an exponential function and discuss environmental considerations related to maintaining healthy ecosystems.

The student will use systems of equations to solve a supply and demand problem.

Students will note relationships between violent crime and the U.S. prison population.

A group presentation that will focus on the Brown v. Board of Education case. The group will act as a news organization. The event deals with college students as well as their interactions with police.

This is a 2 part activity in which students conduct research that is used to develop a sustainable development plan for a less developed country such as Haiti. In the first part, students complete a homework assignment where they conduct research related to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The information gathered from this assignment will be used for a small group discussion in class.

This learning activity will require students to complete online research on the corporate and social responsibility of a business, and write a 3-page properly formatted paper using Microsoft Word.

This learning activity will require students to complete online research on computer hardware, software, and current technologies used in the field of education. Then compare types of computers, price, specs, and determine the best system to meet their needs, software to run on the system they choose, and technologies used in the field.

Student’s will examine a given population’s (i.e. neighborhood, county, city, state, region, country) public health statistics (both physical and mental health) using a variety of databases and will examine spatial factors (political, economic, social, and environmental) that may act as contributing factors and will assess in turn how these statistics affect both place and space.

Prepare and present a 4 - 5 minute Informative speech on aspects of the field student is entering.

The students should be able to identify and critically read classic texts representing the major theories of knowledge, evaluate merits of classic philosophical arguments and critique traditional approaches to epistemology, and to analyze the major philosophical theories in both writing and class discussion.

Students will consider an act or policy and determine its ethical value according to an ethical theory. They will write 2-3 paragraphs applying a particular moral view.

Discussion post; short writing activity

This learning activity will require students to create a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel that shows several psychological disorders and the number of people with each disorder by gender, and enter formulas to calculate totals and averages. Student will also create a chart to analyze information visually.

Career Description informative speech.

Students have to explain the functions of various organelles found in an eukaryotic cell. Next, students will select two of these organelles and discuss how the functions of the individual organelles and their division of labor in the cell correlate with some daily activities seen in the “real world.” For example, the golgi apparatus of a eukaryotic cell is responsible for sorting, packaging and shipping proteins and lipids, very much like the post office does with our mail.

Students will work together in a group and act as professors and will prove to be experts on the topic of “Educating the Masses”. The topic will focus on key African American contributors in the fields of Education and STEM.

Students will participate in a D2L voice thread discussion in which they evaluate the importance of saving the Everglades from the perspective of a particular stakeholder.

Students will explore an area’s (i.e. county, city, state, country) socio-economic distribution using a variety of databases and will think critically to offer contributing factors for disparities in wealth distribution among a given population and how differences in income affect various aspects of civil society.