HS415 Environmental Health
Course Outcomes assessed in this Assignment
HS415-3: Correlate adverse human health effects in both healthy and susceptible populations to toxicological and environmental hazards.
GEL-1.3: Demonstrate college-level communication through the oral delivery of original materials in Standard English.
PC-1.2: Contribute to team goals and objectives through active participation and collaboration.
Instructions:
Introduction
The purpose of this team oral presentation is for several members of your department at the healthcare organization you work for to inform the staff on several types of environmental pollution and how this pollution affects human health. The goal is to provide information that staff can use to determine potential environmental causes of patient health complaints. Therefore, the presentation should use Standard English and have a highly developed and sustained viewpoint and purpose. Using college-level communication skills, the presentation should be logical, unified, and highly ordered with superior organization from beginning to end. In addition, be sure to use exceptional oral delivery techniques in the voice recordings, which includes proper word choice and oral expressiveness, and superior content, organization and style. You should be leading your audience toward a dynamic and supported conclusion that will equip them with the introductory knowledge needed to determine if environmental causes have contributed to patient health issues.
Instructions
Before the start of Unit 4, your Professor placed you in a team. During the Unit 4 Discussion, you had the opportunity to divide the presentation sections among the team members. This includes:
- One team member to serve as a moderator who is responsible for setting up a shared folder in Google Drive for the team to use, providing an overview of the entire presentation, introducing each speaker, making a concluding statement and putting the finishing touches on the completed presentation. This person should be highly organized and very familiar with Google Drive and Microsoft PowerPoint.
- One team member to research and create section 1 of the presentation on air pollution.
- One team member to research and create section 2 of the presentation on water pollution.
- One team member to research and create section 3 of the presentation on land and soil pollution.
- One team member to research and create section 4 of the presentation on radiological pollution.
- One team member to research and create section 5 of the presentation on noise, aesthetic and light pollution.
By Saturday of Unit 5, each team member should attach their completed section of the presentation, including speaker notes and oral voice recordings, to their team’s thread in the Unit 5 Discussion.
Any changes to the presentation need to be made and uploaded to the team folder in Google Drive by 11:59 pm ET on the Sunday of Unit 5 to give the moderator time to compile the presentation. Individual late submissions will not be included in the team presentation and will be assessed separately.
Using the resources from the Unit 4 and Unit 5 Readings, as well as additional sources needed to support your work, create a team Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with oral voice recordings for the five sections using the following outline:
- Title slide – 1 slide
- Moderator introduction and overview of presentation – 1-2 slides
- Moderator introduction of Section 1 team member
- Section 1 – Air Pollution
- Definition of air pollution – 1 slide
- What are the primary causes of air pollution? – 1-2 slides
- What are the effects of air pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
- What are the negative health effects caused by air pollution? – 2-3 slides
- Who is primarily affected by air pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
- Conclusion – 1 slide
- References – (as many slides as needed)
- Moderator introduction of Section 2 team member
- Section 2 – Water Pollution
- Definition of water pollution – 1 slide
- What are the primary causes of water pollution? – 1-2 slides
- What are the effects of water pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
- What are the negative health effects caused by water pollution? – 2-3 slides
- Who is primarily affected by water pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
- Conclusion – 1 slide
- References – (as many slides as needed)
- Moderator introduction of Section 3 team member
- Section 3 – Land and Soil Pollution
- Definition of land and soil pollution – 1 slide
- What are the primary causes of land and soil pollution? – 1-2 slides
- What are the effects of land and soil pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
- What are the negative health effects caused by land and soil pollution? – 2-3 slides
- Who is primarily affected by land and soil pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
- Conclusion – 1 slide
- References – (as many slides as needed)
- Moderator introduction of Section 4 team member
- Section 4 – Radioactive Pollution
- Definition of radioactive pollution – 1 slide
- What are the primary causes of radioactive pollution? – 1-2 slides
- What are the effects of radioactive pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
- What are the negative health effects caused by radioactive pollution? – 2-3 slides
- Who is primarily affected by radioactive pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
- Conclusion – 1 slide
- References – (as many slides as needed)
- Moderator introduction of Section 5 team member
- Section 5 – Noise, Aesthetic and Light Pollution
- Definition of noise, aesthetic and light pollution – 1 slide
- What are the primary causes of noise, aesthetic and light pollution? – 1-2 slides
- What are the effects of noise, aesthetic and light pollution on the environment? – 1-2 slides
- What are the negative health effects caused by noise, aesthetic and light pollution? – 2-3 slides
- Who is primarily affected by noise, aesthetic and light pollution and how? – 1-2 slides
- Conclusion – 1 slide
- References – (as many slides as needed)
- Moderator Conclusion – 1 slide
- Any additional references used for introductions and conclusion. – 1 slide if needed
Requirements
- The team oral presentation should include at least 7 content slides for each section. The moderator should include at least 7 slides throughout the presentation. A blank template is located in the Course Documents.
- The moderator will show competency of the course outcome through research and creation of the introductions, including the presentation overview and section introductions, and the conclusion.
- The individual slides for the oral presentation should have only 3-5 lines of text with 5-7 words per line. The fonts should be easy to read and background needs to be easy on the eye. Avoid using colors that are too bright and backgrounds that make it difficult to read the text. Pictures and graphs are encouraged to support the information on your slides, but not required.
- Each slide should have speaker notes in the “Notes” area at the bottom of each the slide. The speaker notes should be written as your script for the oral presentation. They should have a viewpoint and purpose that is clearly established and sustained throughout the oral presentation, and follow the conventions of Standard English, including correct grammar, punctuation and mechanics.
- The speaker notes also will need to be recorded as voice audio files and added to each slide as if you are presenting to an audience. Be sure to use clear enunciation, professional tone, and record in a quiet space with no background noise (no T.V., music, barking dogs, children or adult conversation, etc.).
- Use exceptional oral delivery techniques in your voice recordings, including proper word choice and oral expressiveness, and superior content, organization and style to lead your audience toward a dynamic and supported conclusion.
- The total time of voice recordings for each team member’s section of the presentation should be no less than 3 minutes.
- Please visit the Microsoft Office tutorial on how to add audio to your slides here.
References
Each section of the presentation needs to include at least three (3) references, which may include the assigned reading material for Units 4 and 5. The moderator should use the last slide of the presentation for references used to create content for their slides.
Submitting your Assignment
Your presentation must be submitted in a Microsoft® PowerPoint® file. Each team member is required to submit their individual section of the presentation to the Unit 5 Assignment 1 Dropbox. The moderator should submit the fully prepared presentation, as shown in the Unit 5 Assignment template in the Course Documents.
Save the presentation with the proper naming convention, using the last name listed in the grade book: lastname_HS415_Unit5.pptx
To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Grades tab after your instructor has evaluated it. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted presentation.
