Monday, July 28, 2014

New Student Assignments

Directions:
Click links and complete each below numbered assignment in chronological order.

 A. Surveys: after completing surveys, snapshot the result page and post the results page on your blog according to the below chronological order.

B. Videos: after watching videos, type your responses to the attached questions, snapshot your answers and post them on your blog according to the below chronological order.

C. Documents: after viewing documents,type your responses to the attached questions, snapshot your answers and post them on your blog according to the below chronological order.

1. Name Survey

Link

2. Learning Style Survey


Link

3. Birth Survey


Link

4. Astrology Survey


Link

5. 12 Sign Survey


Link

6. Chinese Zodiac Survey


Link

7. College Major Survey

Link

Your College Search: 7 Key Factors for Choosing the Best College...Checklist

8. #1 Career Survey


Link

9. #2 Career Survey


Link

10. #3 Career Survey

Link

11. #4 Career Survey


Link

12. #5 Career Survey


Link

13. #6 Career Survey

Link
Directions: Review the below form. Make sure the careers that you choose will allow you to meet your basic needs.
Basic Needs Budget

Directions: Use the below form to research 5 careers and post them on your blog.
Career Questions To Research

14. 24 Characteristic Survey

Link

15. Grit Survey


Link

16. Leadership Style Survey

Link

17. Self Research Reflection Document

Questions:
Based on the above research, fill in the below information.
1. 5 words that describe you:
2. 5 words that do not describe you:
3. 5 words that you are not sure of their meaning:
4. 5 careers you agree that you would like:
5. 5 careers that you disagree that you would like:
6. 5 careers that you do not know if you would like:
7. 5 majors that you are interested in pursuing:
8. 5 colleges that you are interested in pursuing:
9. 5 scholarships that you are interested in pursuing:
10. 5 youth opportunities you could participate in:

18. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Video


Video
Questions
1. What are the hierarchy of needs?
2. What does will mean?
3. What are the 5 hierarchy of needs?
4. What are biological needs?
5. What are safety needs?
6. What are belonging needs?
7. What are esteem needs?
8. What are self actualization needs?
9. Do you agree with the hierarchy of needs? Why or why not?

19. Self Actualizing People Video


Video
Question
1. List the 12 characteristics of self actualizing people in your own words. Do you agree or disagree?Why or why not?

20. Story of Stuff Video


Video
Questions
1. What are the 5 levels of the materials economy?
2. What percentage of US taxes goes to the military?
3. What is the government's job?
4. What fraction of the largest economies are corporations?
5. What fraction of the world's natural resources have been removed?
6. What percent of the world's populations does the US represent? What percent of the world's resources does the US use and waste?
7. Who does not have value in the current system?
8. What is externalized cost?
9. What is the golden arrow of consumption?
10. What is planned obsolescence?
11. What is perceived obsolescence?
12. What is the solution to the problem?

21. Miniature Earth Video


Video
Questions
1. Based on a 100 people society,
A. How many people would be disabled?
B. How many people would live without sanitation?
C. How many people would live without an improved water system?
D. What percent of the population would own majority of the community's wealth?
E. How many people would be hungry or malnourished?
F. How many people could not read?
G. How many people would earn a post secondary education?
H. How many people would have a computer?
I. How many people would have internet access?
J. How would each A-I number change if the 100 people society doubled?
K. How would each A-I number change if the 100 people society was reduced by half?

22. Third World Document

Link
Questions
1. What does first world mean?
2. What does second world mean?
3. What does third world mean?
4. Which continents are first world?
5. Which continents are second world?
6. Which continents are third world?
7. Why do you think first, second, and third world continents are in the categories that they are in?
8. How can third and second world continents help themselves?
9. How can first world continents help third and second world continents?

23. Evolution of Color Video


Video
Questions
1. What is folic acid?
2. Why did humans become paler?
3. How long does it take to turn from black to white?
4. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?

24. Human Origin: One Species, Living World Wide Video

Video
Questions
1. Who are Homo sapiens?
2. When where the first human ancestress discovered?
3. When where the first modern humans discovered?
4. Why are some human's skin and hair different?
5. What percent of human DNA are identical?
6. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?

25. Skin Color- The Way Kids See It Video

Video
Questions
1. What skin color is preference? Why?
2. What skin color is not preference? Why?
3. What skin color would you preference? Why?

26. The Color of Beauty Video

Video
Questions
1. Which girls are preferences? Why?
2. Which girls are not preference? Why?
3. According to the 2008 survey about models in New York fashion week:
A. Percent that were Black=
B. Percent that were Asian=
C. Percent that were Latina=
D. Percent that were White=

27. Racist stereotypes

1. Video
2. Video
3. Video
4. Video
Questions
1. How are Black people depicted?
2. How are White people depicted?
3. How are Hispanic people depicted?

28. Indian Obsession with Whiteness Video

Video
Question
1. Why do Indians desire fair skin?

29. Colonization Art Document




 
Questions for each picture
1. Who are the colonizers? How can you tell?
2. Who are the colonized? How can you tell?
3. What can you infer about the colonizers?
4. What can you infer about the colonized?

30. Research Daily Propaganda Document

Directions:
Watch some type of media for a minimum of  one hour a night. Tally mark the below observations. Be prepared to report on the details of your observations the next school day.
Positive depictions:
1. Whites
2. Blacks
3. Hispanics
4. Asians
5. Men
6. Women
7. Heterosexuals
8. Homosexuals
Negative depictions:
1. Whites
2. Blacks
3. Hispanics
4. Asians
5. Men
6. Women
7. Heterosexuals
8. Homosexuals

31. Pros and Cons of College Document

Link
Questions
1. What are the pros of going to college?
2. What's are the cons of going to college?
3. Based on the pros and cons, do you plan on going to college? Why or why not?
4. If you do not plan to go to college, how do you plan to provide for your basic needs? What career will you choose that meets the below Basic Needs Budget?
Basic Needs Budget

32. Common Miracles: The New American Revolution in Learning Video

Video
Question
1. Do you agree or disagree with the new American revolution in learning? Why or why not?

33. Bucket Fillers Video


Video
Questions
1. What is the bucket philosophy?
2. What does a full bucket mean?
3. What does an empty bucket mean?
4. What does a dipper mean?
5. What are the results of filling a person's bucket?
6. What are the results of dipping?
7. Why do people dip buckets?
8. How do you fill your bucket as well as other buckets?
9. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?

34. The Story of Solutions Video

Video
Questions
1. What is the current goal?
2. What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
3. What should the goal be?
4. What is a game changing solution?
5. What is an old game solution?
6. What does the word GOAL stand for?
7. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?

35. What If One Child Could Change The World Video


Video
Question
1. Do you think that one kid could change the world? Why or why not?

36. Can Kids Influence Change In Our World Video


Video
Question
1. Can kids influence change in our world? why or why not?

37. Virginia Regions Fair At Haycook ES Video

Video
Question
1. How would you like to present your countries at the end of the school year?

38. Minds to Matter - Researching a Better Tomorrow Video

Video
Questions
1. What did Megan create?
2. What is Minds to Matter?
3. Do you agree or disagree with Megan? Why or why not?

39. Timeline/Country Research Document

Link

40. Institution Research Documents

Directions: Preview the below documents. Be prepared to discuss the problems that you see based on the presented data. After each problem discussion, be prepared to discuss and vote on the best strategy to alleviate the problem.

Adult care
Clothing
Economics
Education
Employment
Energy
Entertainment (Based on the Research Daily Propaganda Document)
Feeding
Government
Health care
Land use
Legal system
Media
Military
Religion
Social relations
Transportation
Water use
Waste use
Youth care

41. Pictures of Sun Rays

Question
1. How does the pictures of sunrays located in the top right hand corner of this blog relate to your life.

42. Leader Research

Questions regarding each leader posted on the right hand side of this blog.
1. Snap shot an image of the leader from Google images.
2. Post the leaders name.
3. List the continent and country the leader is from.
4. List the time period the leader lived.
5. Explain why the leader was important.
6. Copy the leaders quote.
7. Explain the leaders quote in your own words.
8. Do you agree of disagree with the quote? Why or why not?
9. Select a different leader. Answer questions 1-8. If desired, you can choose one listed below.

Karl Marx
Chief Sitting Bull
Neely Fuller
Mother Teresa
Ella Baker
Cesar Chavez
Mao Tse-tung
Mahatma Gandhi
John Brown
Chief Crazy Horse
Malcolm X
Benigno Aquino
Sojourner Truth
Chief Black Kettle
Frederick Douglass
Barack Obama
Clara Barton
Emiliano Zapata
Maxine Waters
Marcus Garvey
James Forten
Che Guevara
Vladimir Lenin
Chief Big Foot
Harriet Tubman
Nelson Mandela
Susan B. Anthony
Assata Shakur
Hugo Chavez
Booker T. Washington
Abraham Maslow
Martin Luther King Jr. 
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Thurgood Marshall
Fidel Castro
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Fannie Lou Hamer
Antonio Villaraigosa
Charles Drew
Rosa Parks

43. Today's News

Question
1. Do the news topics fall under social institution categories? List each news topic under the social institution that it belongs to.

44. California Jobs of Today

Question
1. How many jobs pay enough to meet the Basic Needs Budget
2. How many jobs do not pay enough to meet the Basic Needs Budget
3. What are the requirements for the meeting Basic Needs Budget job
4. What are the requirements for the not meeting Basic Needs Budget job
5. M.A.S.H. Calculator: How Much Will My Lifestyle Cost Survey

45. Self Actualization

Quote to reflect on
Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
Jamais Cascio
Question
1. How will you contribute to society?
2. How will you meet your Basic Needs Budget?

46. Public Education

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KW8hfO6ysM
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoSJ3_dZcm8
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAVvQ12AdLM

47. Where disrespect leads you, if angry, find a constructive way to deal with it

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BSyE7fjSj8
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GABzAEm8TJE
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDSu9SlrZs4
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGMBtV3CDNw


48. Grateful

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fekab9Pu2us
2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2MKNsI5CWoU
3. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4HGQHgeFE
4. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YcmtUrrENSE
5. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8qV2euyMc
6. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzAMMam5yU

49. Dealing with lost

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pOzWxSByqrA
2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjgWDSFjxM
3. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mq00IqO7Lvs
4. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsYL4PC0hyk
5. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z8vZxDa2KPM
6. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=49GzqPP7YYk
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=640BQNxB5mc