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Florida Science

The Florida Science online course is designed to compliment your WorldStrides/Christian Discoveries program, and must be completed within six months of travel. The course has been broken down into six subject categories:

Topics of Investigation
Students must complete six topics:

• Endangered Species
• Freshwater Ecosystems
• Natural Resources
• Oceans
• Polluted Ecosystems
• Rain Forest

Students grades will be based on six subject category quizzes and a final examination.
For more details, see “How It Works” and “Grading Scale".

Special Projects
A special project is an optional activity and each one earns additional points toward your final grade. They require more personal involvement in the research since specific web sites are not identified. Part of the task is to locate and assess the appropriateness of web resources. The suggested topics for selection as Special Projects are:

• Compare and contrast local pollution with global pollution
• Compare and contrast the Clean Air Act with MTBE contamination of ground water
• Compare and contrast Global Land Use and Food Production
• Compare and contrast pollution in Colonial America and America 2000

Do not limit yourself to the above suggestions. Any topic connected to the content that is of interest to you may be studied. You may complete no more than two special projects for this course.Send these to the webmaster by email or U.S. mail.

Students will have the control to examine the web-links as they so choose, but web-links and guidelines will be provided to help students complete their research. The websites used by WorldStrides have been screened for appropriateness, content, and for fun.

Click here for the Grading Scale requirements.

The Learning Log is the student's online notebook. It will keep track of the time spent researching each subject, as well as writing down notes, observations and thoughts. Click here to see a sample Learning Log entry. It is estimated that each subject category will take a few hours to complete.

Transcripts Verifying Credit:
Upon completion of this course you will be issued a final grade and an official WorldStrides transcript. Please allow 4-6 weeks to receive your transcript.