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Lesson Plan   * Lesson Title & Subject(s): Developing Drawing Skills   * Topic or Unit of Study: Drawing Birds and Animals   * Grade/Level: First Grade   * Instructional Setting: This lesson will take place in the first-grade classroom. Eight students will be sitting at the desks while listening to my presentation and drawing their images. There will be only two desks each of which can give room to six learners. This setting is quite suitable for the art lesson since I will be able to monitor the activities of students and guide their work when it is necessary. Standard, Goals, and Objectives Your State Core Curriculum/Student Achievement Standard(s) According to Wisconsin State Standards, during the first grade, students should learn how to use different painting techniques and media that are involved in the creation of visual arts (Perma-Bound School Library, 2011, unpaged). This is one of the skills that I will focus on. Additionally, they should know the difference between such elements as color, textures, shape, and lines (Perma-Bound School Library, 2011, unpaged). Finally, learners should be able to create original images (Perma-Bound School Library, 2011, unpaged). These are the main skills that should be developed during the lesson. Lesson Goal(s) Students will be able to use colored pencils, crayons to describe animals or birds. Furthermore, they will paint original pictures that are based on their own experiences. Lesson Objective(s) After guided and independent practice, children will correctly use shapes, lines, and colors to draw pictures of animals. Materials and Resources   * Instructional Materials: Mayesky, M. (2009). Creative Activities for Young Children . New York: Cengage Learning.   * Resources: Colored pencils, crayons, erasers, colored chalks, 30 photographs of different animals (dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, sparrows, hummingbirds, and so forth), and 12×18 sheets of paper. Instructional Plan A sequence of Instructional Procedures/Activities/Events (provide a description and indicate the approximate time for each): Identification of Student Prerequisite Knowledge and/or Skills Students can create images in response to their experiences. Secondly, they can use mostly straight lines to represent some of the simple geometrical objects. Thirdly, they can apply different painting tools such as colored pencils or crayons. New Knowledge and/or Skills To Be Taught This lesson focus on the following aspects, namely  1. ability to create works by using primary colors and their tints;  2. creation of patterns with various shapes, lines, and textures to draw pictures of animals;  3. ability to rely on imagination while creating original artworks. Modeling: I Do (15 Minutes) At the beginning of the lesson, I will demonstrate a series of pictures with animals. Furthermore, I will explain how one can create different shades of the same color. In particular, I will tell learners how one can mix primary colors to create different shades or tints. Secondly, I will show how they should hold pencils or crayons to
Introduction Majority of the campuses in the United States try to offer the best services to their workers and students. School management orders for the best to promote the name of the campus through improved competitive advantages. They also try to attract more students and the most qualified board to manage their services for a better health and academic promotion. This is only improved through a detailed school research and numbers of interviews to cross examine what is missing. It simply gives information of what can be improved and with what urgency. This paper examines the services of Wellness and Health Promotion to the students of CSU as outlined through an interview with the organization’s coordinator, Melinda Yang. Main body CSU student Health Center is an agency that provides health services to CSU students after payments of a required fee. The students pay a health fee which covers most of their health services. The funds are always enough for the performance of the agency to provide the best health attention to their clients. CSU Student Health Center has several roles that it plays in promotion of health to students of the campus. One of the major roles is to support the university by serving all registered students by providing efficient, accessible, and affordable health care services. In addition, they also have number of goals, missions and philosophies that propel them to excellence. Their mission involves supporting academic efficiency through improved health status of the student fraternity irrespective of their cultural diversity. In support of their mission, they also have set goals of which they intend to achieve at the best level possible. These goals are aimed at providing the best health care services. These are fundamental primary care, limited specialty care, health promotion and disease prevention. There is also a principal support services which is upgraded with laboratory, pharmacy, physical therapy, radiology and nutrition. There are also other health mental services that they offer. Furthermore, the agency looks for alternative ways of raising funds so that the students would experience less weight in terms of paying of the costs of health care. Above all, the state of health of the students at CSU is entirely in the hands of CSU student health center. They would be responsible for any misgivings that would arise and are ready to account for any short comings in the health care system of the student community. There is also an advertisement routine for the campus community used to advertise the services provided inside the campus. They use the Student Health Center brochure to do most of their advertisements. There are multiple presentations at Orientations for student organizations and academic classes to advertise their services. Therefore, this largely enhances the promotion of their services which are provided with eligible requirements to all regularly enrolled CSU students. The strict requirements of eligibility make the services easier to manage and more perfe
Abstract Both workers and employers started experiencing remarkable changes in the workplace in the 1990s when many firms were downsized and adopted more number of part-time and temporary personnel. In addition, many females in the labour force have resulted in an increase in conflicts between work and life matters. A business strategy is an approach that is adopted by companies to achieve their business objectives. Many firms use business strategies that address a wide range of activities that would be accomplished within a certain period. Many scholars recognise the need to utilise unique approaches to solve business issues. In a business world that is exemplified by high levels of competition, it would be prudent for management teams to focus on understanding various work and life issues that could impact their staff. In fact, there is a need to establish a work-life balance (WLB) by adopting excellent work-life programmes. Many researchers have focused on understanding and proposing various work-life strategies that could be essential in attaining WLB. It is important to underscore that WLB is critical in attaining competitive advantage and increased market shares. This paper aims at evaluating research-based positive impacts that work-life programmes could have on business strategy. Introduction WLB is the “extent to which an individual is engaged in an equally satisfied with his or her work roles and family roles” (Chimote & Srivastava, 2013, p. 70). The two types of roles should have the following: involvement balance, time balance and satisfaction balance. It is believed that WLB is an individual notion that is based on compatibility of work and non-work activities. Modern human resource departments in various organisations focused on WLB employment practices, which provide excellent platforms on which personnel balance their work activities with responsibilities that they could have outside work (Chalawadi, 2014; Konrad & Mangel, 2000). It is essential to note that WLB could be achieved if work and non-work interests are reconciled. This paper focuses on discussing the role of work-life programmes with regard to promoting business strategy in the workplace. Discussion The work-family conflict could be termed as an inter-role conflict that makes it difficult for an individual to participate in both work and non-work (for example, family) activities. Programmes should be aimed at promoting work-family synergy, which refers to the positive energy th
Executive Summary The Canadian industrial growth has been phenomenal. With the growth of Canadian industries, exports have been on a hectic pace. All produce has to be at some point in time be packaged before delivery and because of the rise in industrial output, the packaging industry in Canada has been doing well. The desired effect of packaging is to enhance transportability, protection of the product during transit and shelf life, and serve to differentiate products. Be it in the automotive, aero, plastics, textile and garments, dry flow materials, or the food sector, packaging consumption is driven by changes in consumer demand for convenience and portability. Therefore, the growth in packaging will remain in line with the population growth, which is estimated to be around 3% per annum. According to Euromonitor, in Canada, the presence of large, US and foreign-based manufacturers makes up the bulk of competitors, with Alcan; one of the few large domestic packaging companies, along with CCL Industries Inc, Norampac, Cascades, and Atlantic Packaging making a significant presence in the Canadian packaging industry (Euromonitor, 2008). Expenditures on packaging products vary in comparison to the volume of shipments. Therefore, it is also critical to analyze the kind of industries that care for quality packaging and why. This paper attempts to provide an overview of the packaging products used by Canadian manufacturing industries in the automotive, aero, food, textiles, plastics, and dry flow materials sector and why. The product value can straight away be ascertained as one of the reasons for the high-valued and quality packaging of these products. Literature Review Fluctuations in demand, in the price level, in consumers’ preferences, in regulations, and development of new technologies, affect packaging. It is because of this that since 1992, there has been a substitution of plastic and corrugated cardboard packaging products for metal and glass boxes and containers. Since 1996, when the manufacturing industries experienced a 2.6% increase in the value of their shipments, they began using plastic containers and packaging materials such as corrugated boxes, metal cans, set-up, and folding boxes, and glass containers. In 1996, Canadian manufacturing industries spent 7.2 billion dollars on containers and packaging products, when there was an increase in consumption of containers by 11.6% over the previous year. This was due to the low-interest rates, a weak Canadian dollar, a strong demand in North America, and a healthy construction sector that led to a
This paper will discuss the importance of examining the external environment of any company especially rapidly evolving ones like the cell phone industry. One factor will be discussed from the external environment that most impacts the prepaid cell phone industry. This paper will also outline some strategies to sustain a competitive market profile in the global and domestic markets. Prepaid Cell Phone External Environment The external environment of a company is its dynamic factors that affect the working of the company as well as how the company affects other factors. A PEST or PESTEL analysis is one such tool that analyzes the external environment to find key issues in the company (Tutor2u, 2009). An analysis of the prepaid cell phone industry domestically and internationally is outlined below:   * Political: Political factors such as backing from the government or laws to use of cell phones is supported since its good way of communication   * Economical: The downward going economy favors the use of prepaid packages as they are cheaper and customers require cheaper solutions in these tough times   * Social: Keeping cell phones used to be a status symbol but now it’s more of a social norm thus people without cell phones are considered outsiders. This is the biggest change for the users of prepaid cell phones   * Technological: Technology has impacted this industry by bringing out cheaper cell phones models thus bringing with it the opportunity to offer more features and charge less   * Environmental: Cell phones can be recycled, however, they are dangerous if not disposed of properly thus a cause of concern for the people   * Legal: For prepaid cell phones, contractual and legal restrictions are minimal thus becoming a favorable factor for the prepaid service providers Building a Sustainable a Competitive Market Profile From a macro-level point of view about the prepaid or pay-as-you-go cell phone providers, the social factor has affected the industry the most and it is expected that the trends will be highly geared towards prepaid packages. In Asian countries the trend is providing carrier services separate from the phone so that there is no reluctance of the consumers to change one service to another. In Europe too, the prepaid package plans are a success and it will only take a few years until the US consumers start favoring the prepaid plans as well. (Fendelman, 2009). Max’s new venture is a move towards the right direction i.e. future. World over the practice uniqueness of prepaid package plans come from the pricing policy rather than the technological features it provides. The reason for this is that the features are so common and easy to copy that every service provider can adopt them and hence offer them. Other differentiating factors like coverage area, brand name etc. are all left behind due to the flexibility in pricing rates. Verizon, Virgin, AT&T all have flexible calling rate plans as well as special texting rate plans. Various combinations are offered by every company without the restriction of having long
Need to write an ethnocentrism essay? This paper focuses on the positive and negative effects of ethnocentrism on individuals and cultures. Use this analysis to define and explain the issue in your own assignment! Introduction The terminology ethnocentrism refers to the tendency of people believing that their race, cultural or ethnic groups are better than all the others. Such individuals measure and judge all the other cultural or ethnic groups in relation to theirs. These judgments are made in relation to aspects like religion, race, behavior, custom and language. The cultural identity of any ethnic group is uniquely identified by the above mentioned aspects. This attitude makes an individual to view other groups as being inferior in comparison to his or her own. (Wood, 2009, p. 163-173) Effects of Ethnocentrism on Individuals Ethnocentrism is a bad practice because it leads individuals to make false assumptions about other cultures. Ethnocentrism leads people to making generalizations about the customs and cultures of other people that are not true. This leads to false judgment of others using their own ethnic belonging as the yardstick. At the end of it all, individuals may make harmful judgments concerning other communities. Ethnocentrism makes people to be rigid to change. Individuals who are ethnocentrism hold to their own culture and they can’t appreciate change that is being brought by modernization. Such individuals may end up remaining illiterate by rigidly holding to their own cultures and not ready to empress change. Ethnocentrism hinders individuals from learning about other cultures. People who are ethnocentric normally don’t take time to learn about other cultures that exist around the world. This leads them to continuing to make judgments that are uninformed about other ethnic groups. Ethnocentrism hinders individuals from communicating to individuals of other cultures. This is because such people view others as a lesser people or harmful for example a belief that a certain community is made of witches (Capucao, 2010, p. 219-228). This leads to communication break down within the society. Effects of Ethnocentrism on Societies There are so many ways that ethnocentrism may affect societies. Ethnocentrism closes the minds of individuals from understanding the way of life and cultures of other people. This may affect social interactions among people of different cultures living in the same geographical area. This may end up affecting the functioning of the social group by making it unstable. The society may exist in fear because the individuals don’t trust one another. Ethnocentrism may lead to situations that are terrible like deaths and wars in a given country. When communities view others from a negative perspective, it may lead to animosity that may cause ethnic or tribal clashes that may end up leading to several injury and death cases within the society. The way societies look at history and understand it can also be affected by ethnocentrism. The society may believe that those who lived before them were a foolish generation. This is a false judgment that doesn’t put th
Human computer interface development has brought considerable change in many sectors such as political, social, cultural and economically. Some of these changes have affected the community either positively or negatively. The continuous evolving of human interface computer highlights substantial changes that are certain to happen in the future. In entertainment one can do a lot in images when they are digital because computer interface has enabled users to produce digital images in many times as one wishes and broadcast to a lot of people around the world through the use of websites (Schindler, 2002). It is highly possible to take and share a photo to millions of people, a thing that was not there before. Socially the world becomes like a small village whereby it is possible to communicate to people in different geographical regions. This will make the world unite more and have a rich culture due to cultural exchange. People will exchange, share and discuss ideas thus solving world problems easily. Some human computer interface such as brain computer interfaces’ helps disabled persons use their brain waves to control digital movies, switches the lights and turn on the music. Entertainment would be less cumbersome as it provides clear and fast devices to carry out some entertaining tasks. These human interfaces include the use of hot hand device which is a wing worn by electric guitarist, which uses wireless, transmitter to come up with various sounds effects by a different hand gestures (Mills, 2010). Socially ones movements will be remarkably safe as ones locations will be easy to be monitored. This is possible through the use of GPS as well as capturing ones locomotion by use of CCTV cameras. This will ensure the cases of insecurity have reduced drastically. People in the future will be making their office be at home, the spacious offices can be discarded as workers will not be required to travel to work. The conferences will not require members to be there in person as the events can be transmitted to people in their homes and they can make suggestions too (Bushnell, 2008). Families will be stronger since they will communicate to one another through computer-based video connection. The aged will benefit more as they will use computers and contribute to the economy. They will continue working using computers and these will change the way people view aged members in the society. Some people will use computes to spy others. Parents will be in able to monitor their children activities even when they are not together. This will also apply to other people such as policemen as well as thieves. Future automotive will have an apartment for computer games whereby commuters will be able to keep themselves busy along the way. Person’s centralized information can be accessed by many individuals without the owner’s permission. All additional software and cables will not be needed to synchronize ones laptop and palmtop a thing that will lead to more social connections (Atkin, 2007). The cost of entertainment will reduce as one will only buy the song he wants instead of
Introduction Learning in adulthood is a very stressful path to undertake because it implies additional responsibilities on the already existing domestic duties. Despite the challenges associated with this concept, many persons still take up this alternative with a view to uplifting their standards of living. This paper will try to elucidate the various factors that determine the nature of adulthood learning. In this case, the arguments of the research paper hinges upon the elements associated with adulthood learning as expounded Merriam, Caffarella Baumgartner (8). To begin with, the research paper shall examine the forces which determine adulthood learning. These forces include, but are not limited to, include technology, and globalization; learning atmosphere (including educational and non educational organization), as well as the characteristic of adulthood learning. Factors determining adulthood learning Globalization has allowed for the movement of people across national boundaries in pursuit of better living standards. Usually, this migration involves the movement of citizens from the developing countries to the developed world. For instance, an immigrant who acquires citizenship to the United States with a view to pursuing a career say, in medicine or law using the qualification that they had acquired in the country of origin, often realizes that the educational qualifications necessary in the united states to enables them pursue the career of their dreams, is different from that which they posses. In order to be certified for practice, he will be required to take the course afresh. Another aspect of globalization involves the importation of experts to carry out a high tech task. These experts will train the citizens who will learn new skills pertaining to that faculty. I work in an auditing firm of 40 members of staff and in this case, it is important to net that 15 members of our staff are immigrants from Asia and Africa. A majority of them have by far superior qualifications in their respective fields of study in comparison with that native citizens employed at the firm. However, because of the need to gain exposure and the drive to seek for greener pastures and the associated increased earning powers, these immigrants have sought to live their homeland for better employment. Advancement in technology and innovation has immensely contributed to adulthood learning (Merriam et al 12). Normally, the acquisition of new inventions usually requires training of the workforce of the importing country to teach them the utility of the new technology. For instance, at our firm, the customer care department has outsource