Critical/Integrative Thinking Assignment
GEOS 101-Environmental Science
Student Assignment Sheet
Background
Environmental Sciences is an area often misunderstood, where misconstrued facts enter public debate and color the fabric of societal decision making. To this end, groups of students will examine various positions of controversial issues / scenarios and debate one another’s positions.
Project Details
The deliverable of the debate for CT/IT purposes is a 5-page paper graded against the CT/IT rubric (posted on BB) The overall project does have the presentation materials (PowerPoint or other presentation of imagery, data, etc.) notecard and Wiki checkpoints.
Debate Presentation Materials
Students should prepare a slide presentation to assist in their debate (title slide with author, 1-3 information slides, & source citations).
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Paper Details
To complete the Critical/Integrative Thinking exercise, students must address a series of (7) conceptual questions in the context of the debate and summary paper as noted on the following page.
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CRITICAL/INTEGRATIVE Topic: 1. Explain 2. Describe the
3. What factual
4. Describe at
5. How do different contexts (i.e.
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7. If your assigned, defended position was carried out, what would be the implications and consequences (good and bad) for appropriate stakeholders and all of society? How does this differ if at all from the student’s personal perspective?