...IVYT 104 Critical Thinking Elements of Thought Worksheet Name: J'annetta B. George Session #: 4 Topic: Improving My Critical Thinking June 25, 2012 Monday Instructions: Fill out the worksheet to document and organize your thoughts on the assigned topic using the 8 Elements of the Universal Structures of Thought. ELEMENTS OF THOUGHT 1. Purpose: What is your purpose in doing this exercise? What are you trying to accomplish? The purpose of this exercise is to hopefully resolve my problem that I am currently facing. I am trying to accomplish weightloss. Hoping, to lose 30 pounds by the end of the summer. Because, I would like to be healthy for myself and my children. Relevance, I should have been more clearn with the statement at hand. By answering the question more clear. 2. Question at Issue: What is the key question you are asking? Key Question: Am I able to lose 30 pounds by the end of the summer? List any secondary questions you will need to address: What types of foods will I need to eat? How much exercise will I need daily to achieve my goals? Accuracy- Are the questions really necessary to losing weight? Could I have chose an more accurate question? 3. Point of View: Whose point of view do you need to consider? The main point of view that I need to consider would be my own. Secondly, my children's point of view, because I do care what they think. I could have used better clarity. Painted...
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...Ecology Lab 2 scientific method of birds In today’s lab we learned about the scientific method and a hypothesis. We talked about how ecologists have an issue when experimenting because they cannot control some environmental factors. Therefore the probability of repeatability in an ecological experiment in often minimal. We then went into talking about the importance of an experimenter’s hypothesis. We summed up a hypothesis as just being an assumption that could be put to the test. After we talked about some examples of a hypothesis we went into talking about the different types of research. For my two experiments in today’s lab I used natural experiments. A natural experiment is one of the most relevant types of experiments an ecologist can use because it occurs in a natural setting and is not repeatable. In today’s lab I am hoping to make a hypothesis that I could provide a lot of testable data and variables. For the first part of a lab we were told to select a partner and draw an ecological topic to make a hypothesis on. Ben and I selected animal and plant association. For the other part of toady’s lab we were told to choose our own ecological topic and develop a hypothesis. Animals frequently visit certain plants that the insects they eat are around. Blue birds hang around my garden because they like to eat the beetles that are around the tomato plants. For plant and animal association my partner and I came up with a hypothesis that bees are around flowers more than tress...
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...and thorax. Stigmas obtain pollen from the same sections. The collected pollen is then fed to the larvae. Due to natural selection these bees are designed with highly effective grooming structures and behaviors that allow them to collect and preserve large quantities of pollen. The distinctions in grooming behavior contributes to the subsidiary of conversions from the melittophily vortex to the ornithophily vortex in penstemons. Affirming that ornithopilous anthers of penstemons open more extensively and present pollen more freely than the melittophilous...
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...some type of skeletal support, show levels of some type of organization, cells made for particular functions, ingest and digest food, and reproduce sexually. Research will be done on two mammals, two insects, two birds and two fish. This research will show just how diverse the Earth is. Mammals: Zebras and Rabbits Zebras and rabbits belong to the Animal Kingdom; however, they belong to different orders. The zebra belongs to the Perissodactyla order because they have hooves. Horses and donkeys belong to the same order as the zebra. The rabbit belongs to the lagomorpha order because they have long ears and they have four teeth on the upper jaw. Hares and pikas also belong to the same order as the rabbit. There are some similarities and differences in characteristics when it comes to the zebra and the rabbit. The two things they have in common would be that they both graze on grass for food and they both reproduce sexually. One difference would be their appearance. Rabbits are small and come in other colors. Zebras are rather large and have black and white stripes all over their body. Another difference would be that rabbits move by hoping, whereas the zebra moves by walking. The two are so different, yet alike. Insects: Butterfly and Bumble Bees Both the...
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...Jaycee Carrigan Mr. Daugherty 3rd Period February 6, 2015 The Importance of Sex Education Imagine a girl and a boy are in a sexually active relationship. They both have the choice to be in a sex education class, but both of their parents say no. 3 months later, they take a visit to the doctor for a check-up and find out that she is pregnant, at the age of 15. She didn't know how to use any contraceptives, and that is something that she could have learned in the sex education class her parents refused to let her take. 3 in 10 teen American girls will get pregnant before the age of 20. That’s nearly 750,000 teen pregnancies every year (11 Facts About Teen Pregnancy). About 10 years ago, you would hardly find any teenagers pregnant. Now a days, there are teen pregnancies left and right. This could be prevented by implementing sexual education in schools and homes. Sex education is a broad term used to describe education about human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, and other aspects of human sexual behaviors (Science Daily). Human sexual anatomy is the basic parts of the body used during sex and the sexual hormones that are involved. Sexual reproduction is another word for having children. Sexual intercourse, well, you know what that is. Human sexual behaviors are what makes us want to have sex, and what urges us to do it. Also, you learn how to use different contraceptives, such as condoms and birth control. These could help prevent teen pregnancies...
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...It is toxic to bees and causes colony collapse disorder among them. Colony collapse disorder is when workers bees suddenly disappear from their bee colony. It causes adult bees to be absent with dead little bees. This is caused by honeybee enterprises feeding their bees high fructose corn syrup. For instance, a research project was conducted where there are five hives and four of them would be fed high fructose corn syrup with pesticides in them and the fifth would be fed just high fructose corn syrup (Helman 3). At first, nothing seemed to happen but as the experiment continued and a large mass of bees were seen fleeing from their hives. After several weeks, 15 of the 16 hives the researchers had fed the pesticide had colony collapse disorder showing that high fructose corn syrup, although not a direct cause of it, still causes the bees to become weaker and more vulnerable to pesticides (Helman...
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...Genetically Modified crops are destroying your health as well as bees, birds, lady bugs and butterflies Like bees and butterflies, lady bugs are also an important part of our ecosystem and are essential to the biodiversity of our food supply. "Lady Bugs are tremendous carnivores that can eat lots of significant agricultural pests including aphides and mites without posing other risk to human health” says Doug Taron, curator of biology at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago." As essential as lady bugs are to biodiversity of our food supply, new research shows that Cry1Ab toxins (B. thuringiensis—BT toxin), Monsanto’s best selling herbicide ‘Roundup’ and crops that are resistant to Glyphosate are toxic to lady bugs: gmo-roundup-bt-toxin-are-destroying-our-health-killing-birds-bees-lady-bug-butterfliesStudies...
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...Professor Gary Brady-Herndon English 122 November 11, 2013 Annotated Biography Chait, Jennifer. "Free-Range." About.com Organic Business. About Organic, n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. The article Free Range by Jennifer Chait explained the meaning of Free Range Farms and the differences between Organic and Free Range Farming. Free Range Farms are described as meat and produce from animals that were allowed to roam freely or had access to outdoor spaces. Organic Foods though the animal should be allowed to roam and graze freely like Free Range Farms, must be certified and meet a stringent criteria. Free Range Farms can also be referred to as Free-roaming, Cage-free or Pasture raised. Free Range Farms are often confused with Organic Farms, explain above they are similar but have differences. Free Range farming incorporates meats eggs and dairy farming. I hope to explain further in my paper the definitions of Free Range. What allows farmers to claim Free Range and what consumers should look for when wanting authentic Free Range Farming products? Pritchard, Forrest. "3 Secrets of Free-Range Farms." Smith Meadows. Smith Meadows, 24 May 2013. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. In this very informative article by Forrest Pritchard, 3 Secrets of Free-Range Farms the importance of Free Range Farms on the eco-system and our environment is thoroughly explained. Pritchard explained the cycle where earth worms burrows through the soil irrigating; this helps farmers get ready for planting. Worms become...
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...Hello i'm Jayden volluntering at the sea bird sancuary.Then I stopped.My friends asked me what I was looking at.I pointed at a- tree and we all stepped back.It was a bee hive.We looked around us and saw plenty of bees going to the hive.One of my friends was allergic to bees and he ran.We all heard lots of buzzing.Another one of my friends said bees are 3/4 of an inch and they die when they sting you. I made my friend Jerry next to me go near the bee hive.He was going to touch the bee hive .Then he got stung and fell on the warm dirt head first.We carried him away from the hive.We found a website about honey bees on the computer and we found...
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...Kent Ridge Park, opened in 1954 as a public park, is designed to adapt to the natural vegetation and topography of the site (“Kent Ridge Park Visitor Info, 2013). As such, it is largely undisturbed and is habitat to a large variety of flora and fauna. Such abundance allows for the study of the many different types of vegetation found in the walk, both native and exotic, and the inter-dependent interactions between the flora and fauna that are required for the continuity of the web of life. Besides being an important natural site in Singapore, what makes it even more unique is that it holds a significant position in Singapore’s natural heritage as the location where the battle for Pasir Panjang took place. (H.T.W. Tan et al.). The walk also enlightened me about how human actions affect the vegetation of a forest, as I realised the changes Kent Ridge forest had undergone due to man’s actions. Kent Ridge was originally a lowland evergreen rainforest, specifically a coastal hill dipterocarp forest. (H.T.W. Tan et al.). Such forests were the most common in areas with year-long moisture and well-drained soils, as found in Singapore. (R.J Morley). Such forests are dense, and lack ground plant growth. They also have a higher diversity of flora and fauna as compared to other forest types. Due to clearance of the forest by man for the cultivation of rubber, pepper and pineapple crops in the past, the forest had lost its original vegetation. Other kinds of vegetation then grew in the ground...
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...experience that I had was doing the skit with my friends, which was about Mrs. Semanovich asking us about how camp was. In our skit, we joked around a lot and we had seriousness about what we learned, about garibaldi, the California State Fish, and we also had a dance to it. To add, our class also dissected a squid and I wasn’t afraid of touching it, just the bees that were all in our space. It felt squishy and we learned about the hard part of the squid’s eye called the eye lenses. We also learned about the guts - if the color is yellowish, it’s a girl, and if it’s clearish, and whitish, it’s a boy. One final experience was our encounter with the ignorant bees, that were feared and not liked on food. The bees were feared because everyone thought they would sting… but if you just swat them away, they would leave you alone or come back to vex you. There was almost no escape from the bees, they loved invading and crawling on our food and some even landed on our squids. These experiences I think will last me a lifetime, with learning about garibaldi, applying it with our skit, dissecting the squid … and then there were the bees that were vexing us. Catalina was filled with knowledge waiting to be learned by us… and we learned a lot too! First, we learned about pollution and plastic. Only half of the plastic is deposited in landfills, even less is recycled, and some plastic is in unknown places around the world like the oceans. Even worse, marine animals like turtles mistake the...
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...They live in self-made holes. They take ten minutes to dig holes. The holes have one entrance and are from one to three meters long. They use their intelligence by using the tools around them. Honey Badgers are fearless and have strength against enemies. They attack their prey when their prey can not escape. The Honey Badger’s coat is used to fend off predators. The competitors Honey Badgers have are famers. Farmers that make honey rely on bees and Honey Badgers are taking honey from them. Farmers feel threatened, so they killed Honey Badgers by setting up traps. Honey Badgers are poisoned, or killed to be used as medicines in some African countries. The myths that are made for Honey Badgers say that if you are bitten by one, that person loses fertility. Honey Badgers are led by honeyguides which are birds, but they have not been proven true. Another Myth is that Honey Badgers are invincible. The Honey Badger is depicted as a fearless animal who can be never killed. In culture, Honey Badger are shown to fight other animals and are said to not care about nothing but...
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...pollination is extremely undervalued in our society because most of us are not aware how important it is to our everyday lives. The honey bee population is drastically dropping with twenty-five percent of the bee population disappearing since 1990, and a condition known as Colony Collapse Disorder is the main cause for the major decrease in the last fifteen years (Natural Resources Defense Council). While bees have become known as the summertime nuisance, they could easily be viewed as one of the most important species on earth to humans. We need to be more aware of how these creatures can help us and research may change a person’s perspective on honey bees....
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...state song and the state bird is the western meadowlark. The big hairy buffalo is the state animal and the state insect is the small stinging honey bee. Also interesting is the worlds biggest recorded pallasite was found in Kansas. Kansas was named after the Native American word Kanza, meaning “people of the south wind.” The people of Kansas were considering whether or not Kansas should become a slave state. There was such a balance of opinion that it took four attempts at writing a constitution by congress. The battle raged on often needing the help of federal troops. In 1850 the people of Kansas approved a constitution prohibiting slavery. The senate’s refusal to admit Kansas as a state, the issue exploded into a national political problem. In order to be admitted there had to be a big shift in power in the senate and the presidency. It wasn’t until January 29, 1861 that the constitution making Kansas the 34th state reached President James Buchanan’s desk and was signed. This January we will celebrate the 150th birthday of Kansas. Home on the range, the state song of Kansas, was originally a poem called My Western Home by Dr. Brewster M. Higley near 1872. The music was written by a friend of Higleys named Daniel E. Kelly. It was officially adopted as the state song of Kansas on June 30, 1947. In 1925 the Kansas Auburn Society conducted a contest in which the school children of Kansas voted on what bird that they wished to become the state bird. The western meadowlark...
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