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In your essay, do the following:
Include an introduction about the research you have conducted.
State your hypothesis, recap the methods, and outline the project design of the behavior change challenge assignment.
State your independent variable, dependent variable, and control.
Talk about any unexpected observations and challenges you encountered during the course of your project.
Using three peer-reviewed references, reflect on how your footprint affects aquatic environments, the organisms that live in aquatic environments, and impacts on human health. Summarize your sources to support your ideas.
Compare your hypothesis to the end result of your behavior change.
Do the results support or refute the hypothesis? How?
Did you adjust your methods to reduce your footprint? Explain why or why not.
Finally, explain the effects of your behavior change plan on your footprint to the other people within your community (stakeholders).
Identify community stakeholders who may be impacted by this change.
Evaluate what their positions might be on the effects.
From the results of your behavior change plan, explain how they can be used to identify how you can continue to monitor the effects that humans have on their environment through research.
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Take time to reflect on your progress daily when possible, but at least once a week.
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Reflection
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Final Report of Experiment in Reducing Footprint
In Unit 3, you began your project log to keep track of your progress on the footprint assignment
for this course. A template was provided in Course Resources. You should have at least two
observation dates per week in the template (for a minimum of eight observations). Use the
template to help you submit this report.
One of the cornerstone concepts in environmental science is global warming and climate
change. Throughout the term, you learned numerous ways in which human behaviors can
modify ecosystems. For your Unit 7 Assignment, you will put together a final report that
describes how you attempted to reduce your own footprint.
Use the progress report logs and the background research you conducted to help you write your
summative paper. Be sure to include your original hypothesis and methods used, and discuss
any unexpected observations. Find three reliable, peer-reviewed references that relate to your
chosen lifestyle change. Potentially good sources would include your local power company’s
website information, your community air pollution standards, your water company’s information,
and scholarly journals which focus on energy conservation or management. Visit the PG Library
and the Writing Center in the Academic Success Center for assistance. The following resources
from the Academic Success Center may be particularly helpful:
Finally, reflect on and report your final results. You should include actual numerical data (and
respective units) where appropriate (i.e., before and after usage of water/gas/oil). Assess the
influence this change had on your carbon output and the attendant effect this had on the
environment.
In your essay, do the following:
1. Include an introduction about the research you have conducted.
2. State your hypothesis, recap the methods, and outline the project design of the behavior
change challenge assignment.
3. State your independent variable, dependent variable, and control.
4. Talk about any unexpected observations and challenges you encountered during the
course of your project.
5. Using three peer-reviewed references, reflect on how your footprint affects aquatic
environments, the organisms that live in aquatic environments, and impacts on human
health. Summarize your sources to support your ideas.
6. Compare your hypothesis to the end result of your behavior change.
1. Do the results support or refute the hypothesis? How?
7. Did you adjust your methods to reduce your footprint? Explain why or why not.
8. Finally, explain the effects of your behavior change plan on your footprint to the other
people within your community (stakeholders).
1. Identify community stakeholders who may be impacted by this change.
2. Evaluate what their positions might be on the effects.
9. From the results of your behavior change plan, explain how they can be used to identify
how you can continue to monitor the effects that humans have on their environment
through research.
10. Attach your log sheet to the final report.
Basic Writing Expectations:
1. Your report should be approximately 750 words, not including the title or reference
pages.
2. Include an introduction and conclusion.
3. Include a title page, double-space your paper, and use a font size of 10 or 12.
4. Include a highly developed viewpoint/thesis, purpose, and exceptional content.
5. Demonstrate superior organization — use logic.
6. Make certain that your paper is free of grammar and spelling errors.
7. Avoid plagiarism.
8. Use APA style for the body of the paper, all in-text citations, and references.
My Unit 3 DB
After looking at the websites and completing this week’s reading I found that my family’s
footprint is actually smaller than the average. This may be due to the fact that we recycle
everyday and my kids don’t take long showers, at least not yet. There are areas which can still
be improved. One thing in particular I plan on doing is reducing the amount of lights we keep on
at night. I do have two smaller children which need night lights but the other lights around the
house can be turned off. Turning off the lights when you leave your room or at night can help
save energy. It can also help reduce carbon emission and other harmful greenhouse gases.
Hence, turning off your lights is a simple way to help protect the environment and save the
planet.
My plan to save energy by turning lights off will begin with buying a handful of automatic light
switches. These are pretty cost-effective these days and will save me electricity and money in
the future. I will program the devices so that all the kitchen and living room lights turn off around
10pm and then turn back on at 6am. The 8 hours that the lights are off will help reduce our
carbon footprint and save money. I also plan on changing some of the night lights to motion
detector lights. These will also cut down on the amount of lights that are constantly on. Making
these small changes around the house will help keep carbon emissions down and lower our
electric bill.
Reference:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (n.d.). Household carbon footprint calculator.
https://www.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator)
Global Footprint Network. (n.d.). Open data platform. Open Data Platform. Retrieved May 16,
2022, from https://data.footprintnetwork.org/#/
Global Footprint Network. (n.d.). What is your ecological footprint?
http://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en
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