EXPERIMENT G CURRENT EVENTS ASSIGNMENT

This assignment is designed to allow you the opportunity to investigate environmental topics on the world wide web. Environmental topics are current in all types of articles dealing with technology, medicine, business, research, etc.

Procedure

Go to the following web address: www.epa.gov

You should be automatically on the In the News section.

By clicking on some of the Headlines links, identify and read 2 articles of interest to you and answer the questions below for each.

You may choose from the following topics:

Air Quality

Acid Rain

Radon

Ozone Hole

CFC’s

Greenhouse gasses

Catalytic Converters

Nuclear fission

Nuclear waste disposal

Water Pollution

Air Pollution

Any other environmental topic of current concern

 

Go to one or more of the following web addresses:

www.msnbc.com and click on Health

www.nbc10.com and click on Healthwatch and then Story Archive

www.ABCNEWS.com and click on Science (This choice is preferable) or Health and Living

 

Identify and read 2 more articles of interest to you ON ONE SPECIFIC TOPIC and answer the questions below for each.

Experiment G Current Events Assignment Name___________________________

Article 1:

URL: _______________________________

Name of EPA document: ________________________________________________________

Date of posting and/or last update :_____________________________________

Summary of the information

Notable feature(s) of the article (good or bad):

Something interesting that you learned:

Article 2:

URL: _______________________________

Name of EPA document: ________________________________________________________

Date of posting and/or last update :_____________________________________

Summary of the information

Notable feature(s) of the article (good or bad):

Something interesting that you learned:

Article 3:

URL: _______________________________

Name of EPA document: ________________________________________________________

Date of posting and/or last update :_____________________________________

Summary of the information

Notable feature(s) of the article (good or bad):

Something interesting that you learned:

Article 4:

URL: _______________________________

Name of EPA document: ________________________________________________________

Date of posting and/or last update :_____________________________________

Summary of the information

Notable feature(s) of the article (good or bad):

Something interesting that you learned: