K-12 Students and Business People Learning Together by Solving Real Business Problems using System Dynamics Paul Newton Original draft July‚ 1998 Revised draft in December‚ 1998 667 St. James Circle Green Bay‚ WI 54311 paulnewton@ibm.net 920-465-1896 Table of Contents Background and Problem Statement 5 Solution Overview 6 Solution Detail 7 CSDM Education and High School Curriculum 7 Student interest‚ pre-requisites‚ teaching‚ and assessment
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lazy Americans do‚ recycling those items can be very beneficial. What everyone knows but refuses to address is that recycling is a healthy habit‚ not just for us but for the world. One reason that many people don’t recycle is because their neighborhoods don’t offer it. Many Americans would also rather just throw their recyclable items in the trash because they are too lazy to take it to a recycling bin. Recycling can create many jobs and in time improve the economy. Recycling can also save natural
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actual emissions or discharges associated with waste disposal methods and their effects on the environment and health. On the other hand‚ the benefits and disadvantages of recycling are more complex. Development of a recycling program can be expensive‚ and recycling generates pollution. Thus‚ several questions arise: Is recycling really well for the environment? How does it affect the economy? Does it save or cost money? Political decisions are rarely implemented on the basis of original investigations
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Economic Factors of Recycling The environmental factors of recycling are wildly known but little is discussed of the economic factors‚ recycling does provide benefits and adds value to an economy. For example‚ in the United States of America‚ these benefits stem from the jobs‚ products manufactured and sales generated by the recycling industry. National recycling efforts are responsible for maintaining hundreds of thousands of the US every year. The Economic Factors of Recycling Increased Wages:
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Recycling (outline) Introduction 60 percent of the 200 million tons of garbage that Arabs produce yearly could be recycled. It may seem easy just to throw whatever people have finished using in the trash‚ but our wasteful ways have negative effects on the environment. The solution to this problem is to recycle. It is the best way to protect natural resources and to reduce the costs of processing garbage and of cleaning up. The citizens of the Arab world should start thinking seriously
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Why Is Recycling Important? Some benefits include: saving energy‚ saving land space‚ saving money‚ creating new jobs‚ reducing air and water pollution and preserving habitat for wildlife. That’s why recycling is important and you should take a closer look at your life and how your recycled materials are used in your daily life. Saves Energy It takes less energy to process recycled materials than it does to use virgin materials. For example
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EC 239 Introduction to International Trade Instructor: Sharif F. Khan Department of Economics Wilfrid Laurier University Winter 2010 Suggested Solutions to Assignment 2 (Optional) Part B Short Questions B1. Question # 1 of Ch 2 (8th ed. of the textbook) Canada and Australia are (mainly) English-speaking countries with populations that are not too different in size (Canada’s is 60 percent larger). But Canadian trade is twice as large‚ relative to GDP‚ as Australia’s. Why should this be the case
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9/27/2010 Recycling should be mandatory Producing electricity is the number one cause of air pollution in the United States. Lighting is up to 35% of America’s electricity consumption. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a one hundred-watt bulb for twenty hours‚ a computer for three hours‚ or a TV for two hours. Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. All of these are reasons why recycling should become a mandatory process
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MURDER MYSTERY “SURVIVOR ISLAND” TREASURE HUNT PROBLEM SOLVING EXERCISE Purpose: To work together as a team to solve a problem. Each team will work to solve the mystery of Survivor Island by answering the following questions: Who found the treasure? What happened to the treasure? Who has the treasure now? Required materials: Packet of clues for each group. Instructions: 1. Each group distributes an equal number of clues to each person in the group. 2. Clues are to remain in front of the
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Water Reclamation and Recycling As our population continues to grow‚ many begin to raise questions about how (or even if it’s possible) to provide enough water to support this rapidly growing population. With our population recently reaching 7 Billion‚ it seems that finding the answer to this has become such an imperative as to be compared to our global energy crisis. As more and more research is conducted‚ one viable answer seems to keep resurfacing‚ water reclamation. While many proponents
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