Analysis of a Local Environmental Issue and Its Impact

This milestone activity is the first of several activities that will build toward the completion of your final project for the course. For this milestone activity, you will submit this completed worksheet in which you will outline and identify the elements below regarding your chosen local environmental issue. See the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document for more detailed information. You may use the information from the Module One journal assignment. Be sure to integrate any feedback you received from your instructor on the journal assignment.

For this milestone worksheet assignment, complete the following:

1. Download the Milestone One Worksheet document.
2. Review the Milestone One Rubric.
3. Complete the three parts that address the critical elements.

NOTE: Refer to your module resources as well as additional resources you identify for information to help you answer the questions below. Remember that you will need to use current APA style guidelines for your citations and reference list in the final project submission. You will note that each question in the worksheet has you track your citations.

You do not need to provide long answers to the questions. You should be concise, writing 3- to 4-sentence responses. Once you receive feedback from your instructor, you will expand on your answers to complete the final paper at the end of the course.

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Guidelines for Submission: Each response in the worksheet should be concise (3 to 4 sentences), written in your own words (you may paraphrase information from the learning resources but do not directly quote or copy and paste text). Be sure to include citations for your resources using APA style guidelines. Once you have completed the Milestone One Worksheet, upload and submit your saved worksheet to Brightspace to finish this milestone assignment.

Critical Elements	Attempted With Minimal or No FunctionalIssues (100%)	Attempted With Key Functional Issues (75%)	Was Not Evident in Submission (0%)	Value
Environmental Issue: Environmental Issue	Identifies the chosen environmental issue, briefly describing its impact on the global environment, and supports description withscientific facts	Identifies the chosen environmental issue, describing its impact on the global environment, but description is verbose orcontains scientific inaccuracies	Does not identify the chosen environmental issue	30
Environmental Issue: Local Community	Describes the impact of the environmental issue on the local community and supports description with specific examples	Describes the impact of the environmental issues on the local community but description is cursory or contains inaccuracies or supporting examples are not specific or notpresent	Does not describe the impact of the environmental issues on the local community	30
Human Impact: Environmental Issue	Identifies the ecological processes that are impacted by the environmental issue, briefly describing how each has been impacted by the environmental issue, and supports response with scientific facts	Identifies the ecological processes that are impacted by the environmental issue, describing how each has been impacted by the environmental issue, but response is cursory or contains inaccuracies, or supporting facts arenonexistent or not scientific	Does not identify the ecological processes that are impacted by the environmental issue	30
Articulation of Response	Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization	Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readabilityand articulation of main ideas	Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding ofideas	10
Total				100%