Prepare a personal reflection and action plan paper on one or two natural resources that you would like to focus on to make personal changes, from the general categories of animals, plants, water, air, soil, minerals, food, and energy sources.

Gardening and Animal Domestication

Overview

The final project for this course is the creation of a paper that will be a comprehensive personal reflection and action plan focused on personal natural resource use. The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate mastery of the course concepts and encourage students to incorporate course learning into
an applicable future choice plan.

The purpose of the presentation component (graded separately) is to effectively demonstrate your plan to peers and for peer review of their ideas.

This project will assess your mastery with respect to the following course outcomes:

What are natural resources and how do we use them?

How has our use of natural resources changed over time?

How does the use of natural resources impact our environment?

o Apply scientific principles to make informed decisions about resource use
o Recognize and act on essential components of academic integrity
o Examine students’ perspectives of how they fit into the world community
o Examine students’ responsibility as stewards of the environment

Identify important connections between human and resource use

Become proficient at integrating and applying skills learned to everyday life

Demonstrate awareness of how natural resource use impacts their daily lives

Prompt

Prepare a personal reflection and action plan paper on one or two natural resources that you would like to focus on to make personal changes, from the general categories of animals, plants, water, air, soil, minerals, food, and energy sources.

This assignment moves beyond recycling and packaging reduction to a real and significant lifestyle change regarding natural resource use.

In addition to providing background information on your proposed personal changes, your action plan requires you to include how you would execute your plan. This will help to ensure that scope and feasibility for your plan exist.

For example, if you were to get rid of all toxic cleaning supplies in your home, what steps would you need  to take? What resources would you need? What costs would there be? How would you go about accomplishing these steps and goals

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