Carly's activity was a crossword puzzle that tested your food safety knowledge. I couldn't access the actual puzzle because of a server error but I did take the quizzes and read over some interesting information regarding food safety. I took some of the quizzes and found out some very interesting facts about food safety. You're supposed to wash fruits and vegetables under cold water instead of warm water. The refrigerator should be set at below 40 degrees, canned tomatoes can be stored in the pantry for 18 months, and you're supposed to wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds under hot water just to name a few. Carly's activities were very interesting and informative. Nice job.
JD's activity was very cool in that he related his activity to what we've been covering in class. He used a crossword puzzle to test our knowledge on being Eco-Chic. I believe these are the answers but I'm not 100% sure: 1. down-recycling, 2. down-reuse, 4. down-hybrid autos I think, 2. across-reduce, 3. across-eco-chic, 5. across-junking, 6. across-bus. I enjoyed completing JD's crossword because it was a bit of a refresher on what we did this semester. Nice job.
Kristen's activity was a link of three different videos that showed the effects of smoking. This issue was identical to my advocacy project and I thought her videos were very creative. The parody of the Brady Brunch video was quite comical but showed just how bad secondhand smoke can be as it showed two of the kids with serious health conditions-asthma, and heart disease. the second video, which was extremely eye-opening and morbid showed what smoking does to your organs including your lungs, heart, brain, and eye-sight, just to name a few. This was a very informative video and if people stopped to watch it they might think twice before smoking!!! Lastly, the third video showed and experiment where cigarette's are being burned into a water bottle and after a while the water turns completely black representing the tar that's in cigarettes. Each cigarette contains 18mgr of tar and at the end of the experiment the person boils the black water on the stove and the water evaporates but the tar remains. Absolutely scary! Awesome post Kristen.
For Dane's activity we had to write a an essay or picture ourselves in the shoes of those who live in the gulf states whom were affected by the BP oil spill. Dane noted, which I wasn't aware about was that Duluth's economy takes in $400 million dollars from tourism a year. It would affect my job in that with less money comes cutbacks and layoff's which equals no job. It would affect family members and friends in that they too would probably suffer from job losses and money gained overall. It would affect the places that I go in that they would probably have to cut hours of operation and possibly shut down all together and that would affect when I could go there based on my schedule, etc. The national perspective on Duluth would probably be one that not a lot of people would want to visit due to poverty levels I'm sure, which is really sad and I now feel very sorry for the businesses and people of the gulf coast, more than I previously did. Nice post Dane.
Im glad that you learned so much doing these activities. Its great that we are able to create effective learning activities as students. It will be great skill to take with us to the work place.
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