In order to successfully complete this course, students must demonstrate their understanding of the course materials by completing the following assignments:
There are two surveys: one for students to introduce themselves and the other to quiz them on the syllabus and the quick-start syllabus.
These are graded quizzes related to each chapter’s content. Each quiz will have multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.
There are four assessments in this course and the first three are proctored and must be taken in a proctored environment. The fourth assessment is a take-home. Each assessment will be related to the chapter content for the module breakdown for the course. Each assessment is generated randomly from banks of questions. In this way no two assessments will be alike. Each assessment will consist of three to four chapters and contain essay questions. There will be a time limit of two (2) hours placed on the completion of the assessments.
Please find the information on how to take a proctored assessment in the Taking Proctored Assessments section below.
There are three graded discussions that require students to read a linked article on a subject related to what is being studied and discussing how it relates to them, or what their opinion might be on the subject.
Students will be required to do research and write a documented essay on the pros and cons of global warming and wind energy. The essays must be approximately 500 words. A bibliography and citations for facts, quotes, etc. are required. Students should conclude the essays with their opinion(s).
The purpose of the current event assignments is to apply some of the knowledge students have learned from this course to present day environment. There are three current event assignment submissions. For the current event assignment, find an article in a newspaper, weekly magazine, or website that relates to a topic students have been studying, or will study, in this course. The article should be typical newspaper article length and cover the topic in sufficient depth that students can relate to it and explain it. Provide the following when posting this assignment:
This assignment is based on a 7.5 minute quadrangle topographic map. The map can be ordered over the Internet. Please utilize text, links, and any other resources to complete the assignment. The External Links also has instructions and links to obtain this map at no charge, but with some reservations.
You will be given resources to review on the greenhouse effect and answer questions.
This exercise consists of four brief essay questions related to acid rain or the ozone layer.
These are graded extra credit quizzes that will only count as extra credit toward the student’s final grade if the student has completed all of the required graded assignments, as described above.