Course Outcomes assessed in this Assignment

HS415-3: Correlate adverse human health effects in both healthy and susceptible populations to toxicological and environmental hazards.

GEL-1.3: Demonstrate college-level communication through the oral delivery of original materials in Standard English.

PC-1.2: Contribute to team goals and objectives through active participation and collaboration.

Instructions:

Introduction

The purpose of this team oral presentation is for several members of your department at the healthcare organization you work for to inform the staff on several types of environmental pollution and how this pollution affects human health. The goal is to provide information that staff can use to determine potential environmental causes of patient health complaints. Therefore, the presentation should use Standard English and have a highly developed and sustained viewpoint and purpose. Using college-level communication skills, the presentation should be logical, unified, and highly ordered with superior organization from beginning to end. In addition, be sure to use exceptional oral delivery techniques in the voice recordings, which includes proper word choice and oral expressiveness, and superior content, organization and style. You should be leading your audience toward a dynamic and supported conclusion that will equip them with the introductory knowledge needed to determine if environmental causes have contributed to patient health issues.

Instructions

Before the start of Unit 4, your Professor placed you in a team. During the Unit 4 Discussion, you had the opportunity to divide the presentation sections among the team members. This includes:

• One team member to serve as a moderator who is responsible for setting up a shared folder in Google Drive for the team to use, providing an overview of the entire presentation, introducing each speaker, making a concluding statement and putting the finishing touches on the completed presentation. This person should be highly organized and very familiar with Google Drive and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• One team member to research and create section 1 of the presentation on air pollution.
• One team member to research and create section 2 of the presentation on water pollution.
• One team member to research and create section 3 of the presentation on land and soil pollution.
• One team member to research and create section 4 of the presentation on radiological pollution.
• One team member to research and create section 5 of the presentation on noise, aesthetic and light pollution.

By Saturday of Unit 5, each team member should attach their completed section of the presentation, including speaker notes and oral voice recordings, to their team’s thread in the Unit 5 Discussion.

Any changes to the presentation need to be made and uploaded to the team folder in Google Drive by 11:59 pm ET on the Sunday of Unit 5 to give the moderator time to compile the presentation. Individual late submissions will not be included in the team presentation and will be assessed separately.

Using the resources from the Unit 4 and Unit 5 Readings, as well as additional sources needed to support your work, create a team Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with oral voice recordings for the five sections using the following outline:

• Title slide – 1 slide
• Moderator introduction and overview of presentation – 1-2 slides
• Moderator introduction of Section 1 team member
• Section 1 – Air Pollution
  • Definition of air pollution – 1 slide
  • What are the primary causes of air pollution? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the effects of air pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the negative health effects caused by air pollution? – 2-3 slides
  • Who is primarily affected by air pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
  • Conclusion – 1 slide
  • References – (as many slides as needed)
• Moderator introduction of Section 2 team member
• Section 2 – Water Pollution
  • Definition of water pollution – 1 slide
  • What are the primary causes of water pollution? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the effects of water pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the negative health effects caused by water pollution? – 2-3 slides
  • Who is primarily affected by water pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
  • Conclusion – 1 slide
  • References – (as many slides as needed)
• Moderator introduction of Section 3 team member
• Section 3 – Land and Soil Pollution
  • Definition of land and soil pollution – 1 slide
  • What are the primary causes of land and soil pollution? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the effects of land and soil pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the negative health effects caused by land and soil pollution? – 2-3 slides
  • Who is primarily affected by land and soil pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
  • Conclusion – 1 slide
  • References – (as many slides as needed)
• Moderator introduction of Section 4 team member
• Section 4 – Radioactive Pollution
  • Definition of radioactive pollution – 1 slide
  • What are the primary causes of radioactive pollution? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the effects of radioactive pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the negative health effects caused by radioactive pollution? – 2-3 slides
  • Who is primarily affected by radioactive pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
  • Conclusion – 1 slide
  • References – (as many slides as needed)
• Moderator introduction of Section 5 team member
• Section 5 – Noise, Aesthetic and Light Pollution
  • Definition of noise, aesthetic and light pollution – 1 slide
  • What are the primary causes of noise, aesthetic and light pollution? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the effects of noise, aesthetic and light pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
  • What are the negative health effects caused by noise, aesthetic and light pollution? – 2-3 slides
  • Who is primarily affected by noise, aesthetic and light pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
  • Conclusion – 1 slide
  • References – (as many slides as needed)
• Moderator Conclusion – 1 slide
• Any additional references used for introductions and conclusion. – 1 slide if needed

Requirements

• The team oral presentation should include at least 7 content slides for each section. The moderator should include at least 7 slides throughout the presentation. A blank template is located in the Course Documents.
• The moderator will show competency of the course outcome through research and creation of the introductions, including the presentation overview and section introductions, and the conclusion.
• The individual slides for the oral presentation should have only 3-5 lines of text with 5-7 words per line. The fonts should be easy to read and background needs to be easy on the eye. Avoid using colors that are too bright and backgrounds that make it difficult to read the text. Pictures and graphs are encouraged to support the information on your slides, but not required.
• Each slide should have speaker notes in the “Notes” area at the bottom of each the slide. The speaker notes should be written as your script for the oral presentation. They should have a viewpoint and purpose that is clearly established and sustained throughout the oral presentation, and follow the conventions of Standard English, including correct grammar, punctuation and mechanics.
• The speaker notes also will need to be recorded as voice audio files and added to each slide as if you are presenting to an audience. Be sure to use clear enunciation, professional tone, and record in a quiet space with no background noise (no T.V., music, barking dogs, children or adult conversation, etc.).
• Use exceptional oral delivery techniques in your voice recordings, including proper word choice and oral expressiveness, and superior content, organization and style to lead your audience toward a dynamic and supported conclusion.
• The total time of voice recordings for each team member’s section of the presentation should be no less than 3 minutes.
• Please visit the Microsoft Office tutorial on how to add audio to your slides here.

References

Each section of the presentation needs to include at least three (3) references, which may include the assigned reading material for Units 4 and 5. The moderator should use the last slide of the presentation for references used to create content for their slides.

Submitting your Assignment

Your presentation must be submitted in a Microsoft® PowerPoint® file. Each team member is required to submit their individual section of the presentation to the Unit 5 Assignment 1 Dropbox. The moderator should submit the fully prepared presentation, as shown in the Unit 5 Assignment template in the Course Documents.

Save the presentation with the proper naming convention, using the last name listed in the grade book: lastname_HS415_Unit5.pptx

To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Grades tab after your instructor has evaluated it. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted presentation.

• Week 10 Assignment – Critical Threats to the Global Environment
  Overview
  The United Nations has continued to retain you as a consultant for a project that deals with climate and the environment. Most developed countries see the dangers of releasing too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and are committed to climate policies that attain a carbon-free future in the next 30 years. They already see the damaging effects that this gas alone is having on the living conditions of crops, wildlife, and humans. As a result, many member states are dissatisfied with the progress of the eight Millennium Development Goals for international development that they established in 2000. The member states see a substantial disconnect between several issues that developed and developing countries believe are priorities. For example, Burundi wants one of the goals to focus on food security, while Austria is adamant that a major global issue should be the negotiation of ceasefires in countries in the midst of civil wars. The UN wants you to work from the list below and prioritize two of the global community’s threats that it deems the most serious to environmental stability.
  Instructions
  Step 1
  Select two threats. Listed below are eight issues that the UN feels pose the most significant threats to global security. Some of these apply to the Earth’s 7.7 billion people, while others are limited primarily to developing countries. Regardless of where these threats are concentrated, your job as a consultant is to identify two of them that you consider the most critical to the globe’s population.
  Issue Options
  1. The use of fossil fuels as an energy source.
  2. Globalization.
  3. Insufficient educational opportunities in developing countries.
  4. A lack of access to technology.
  5. Civil war (NOT the U.S. Civil War).
  6. The rise in oceans’ levels.
  7. Covid-19 and the global pandemic.
  8. The dangers of poor countries remaining poor.
  9. Step 2
     Write a minimum of an 8 page persuasive paper about your two threats.
     Write an introduction paragraph of at least one-half page in length identifying the two threats you have selected and the purpose of the paper. Then, for the two threats you chose:
  10. Identify the factors that make it such a serious risk to the global environment that you would choose to present it to the UN.
  11. Analyze the role that humans have played in aggravating this threat to the Earth’s environment.
  12. Suggest initiatives that the global community can take to mitigate the worst effects of this environmental threat.
  13. Write a conclusion paragraph of at least one-half page in length that summarizes your impressions of these risks for global stability.
  14. Guidelines
  15. This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). For assistance and information, please refer to the SWS link in the left-hand menu of your course and check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  16. In order to earn full credit, the answers to each of the three questions must be at least two full pages long, making six pages. You must also include the one-half page introduction and one-half page conclusion at the beginning and end of the paper, adding up to one page of content. Finally, you must include a graph or table (see 5, below) that will be at least one page in length. The entire paper will be a minimum of eight pages long.
  17. You must use at least seven credible sources (excluding Wikipedia, dictionaries and encyclopedias) that are appropriate for the subjects under discussion.
  18. You must use only double-spacing and not place extra spacing between paragraphs or section headings.
  19. As part of your answer to any one of the questions, you must include a graph, table or chart using quantifiable data that supports your argument. You need only one graph for the entire assignment, and although you may download this item from the Internet, it may be no longer than one page in length. You must comprehensively explain beneath the graph what the data means. Otherwise, it will be of no use to the reader.
  20. The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:
  • Propose suggestions for mitigation initiatives that address the threats to the stability of the global environment.