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SCI 219 Module Four Activity Guidelines and Rubric Overview: This activity will aid you in completing the potential solutions and personal impact sections of the final project. Based on the issue you have chosen to investigate, you will assess your personal contribution to the problem by analyzing your consumption and/or use of the resource. Prompt: For this assignment, think about your personal contribution to the environmental issue you chose to present for the final project. Then, you can either monitor and record your consumption or use for a few days and extrapolate the information to represent a year or gather existing data that represents your annual consumption or use. For example, if the issue you chose to investigate is local air pollution, you could monitor and record how far you drive for a few days, then extrapolate that information to represent a year. This data could be presented as a summary table. You could also summarize your home electric use for the past year using utility bills and present this data as a graph of use over time. Then, state how automobile fuel and the source of your home power (coal, solar, wind, natural gas) impact air pollution. Using the Global Footprint Network's Footprint Calculator or statistics from credible online sources, comment on whether your fuel and power use are typical of U.S. consumption rates and how they rate globally. List the possible alternatives to your resource use (e.g., buy a more fuel-efficient car, carpool or ride a bicycle to work, switch to solar or wind power for electricity). End your submission with a candid discussion of the changes you would consider making to reduce your impact on the resource (e.g., will carpool but will not ride a bike, greener sources of electricity are not available in my area but will adjust my thermostat to use less electricity). Submit your data as a table or figure and answer the following questions. To aid your reflection, you may want to refer back to your results from Module One from the Global Footprint Network's Footprint Calculator. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Explain (in 1 to 2 paragraphs) how your use of the resource impacts the environmental issue you have chosen.
Discuss (in 1 to 2 paragraphs) whether your use of the resource is typical of U.S. consumption rates and how your personal use rates globally. Support your discussion with scientific fact.
List the possible alternatives to lessen your resource use. (This list should have at least three alternatives.)
Discuss (in 1 to 2 paragraphs) the changes you would consider making to lessen your personal impact on the resource.
Rubric Guidelines for Submission: This assignment is not a formal paper, but your answers should be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. You must include a properly labeled table, figure, or graph to represent the data. Use and properly cite at least three sources in APA format and list them at the end of the document.
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Use of Resource Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides exceptional detail in explaining how personal use of the resource impacts the environmental issue
Explains how personal use of the resource impacts the environmental issue
Explains how personal use of the resource impacts the environmental issue but explanation lacks details or is unclear
Does not explain how personal use of the resource impacts the environmental issue
25
Consumption Rates
Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides exceptional detail in discussing whether personal use of resource is typical of U.S. consumption rates and how personal use rates globally
Discusses whether personal use of resource is typical of U.S. consumption rates and how personal use rates globally
Discusses whether personal use of resource is typical of U.S. consumption rates and how personal use rates globally but discussion lacks details or is unclear
Does not discuss whether personal use of resource is typical of U.S. consumption rates or how personal use rates globally
25
List List three possible alternatives to lessen resource use
Does not list three possible alternatives to lessen resource use
15
Changes Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides exceptional detail in discussing changes to consider making to lessen personal impact on the resource
Discusses changes to consider making to lessen personal impact on the resource
Discusses changes to consider making to lessen personal impact on the resource but discussion lacks details or is unclear
Discusses changes to consider making to lessen personal impact on the resource
25
Articulation of Response
Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format
Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas
10
Total 100%