Environment


 * ** [|Data Logging] **


 * Sensors, probes, real time data collection**

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 * In Sciences Biologist tag animals to study how they live** **and mostly how to protect and prevent animals from being extinct .** || **Animal Tagging**

Due end of the Period today 4th February 2013.

Read all the links and the video on this page.

1. Identify the IT system/s that is/are being used to tag and to log the data. [2 Marks for complete list, 1 for half the list] 2. Describe the issues that may arise with the use of the IT systems you listed above. [6 Marks] 3.Evaluate the impact of animal tagging to our Environment? [8 Marks] 4. Solve one of the issues you have listed above and evaluate your proposed solution.[8 Marks]

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Task for 7th February

Read this article about mapping.

-e-Waste-

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 * 1. Watch this videos:**

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 * 1)  Maciej - Ban to certify and audit e-Waste.
 * 2)  Mitch - Ghana dumping ground
 * 3)  Jenny - Scraplife
 * 4)  Gelson - India's poor
 * 5)  Irene - eWaste hitting the developing world
 * 6)  Tord - Laying waste in yesterday's widgets
 * 7)  Sang -The electronic wasteland

__Questions that you need to address about your articles: __
 * Identify the issue/s in the article? [2 Marks]
 * Evaluate how the stakeholders being affected by 1 of the issues you have identified above[8 Marks]
 * To what extent does the ecomony of the country receiving e-waste benefit from it? [8 Marks]
 * Solve one of the issues you have listed on the first bullet and evaluate its effectivity on the e-waste problem. [8Marks]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Site your sources - No sources no Marks.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Very interesting Article about recycling which will bring another round of issues in the ITGS world. Read this article and we will talk about it this next week.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">NYT News - Tracking e-waste