E-PORT January 23rd: Unit Update on Problem Solving

Over the last two weeks, we had discussions about a number of things including ethics, philosophy, discrimination, CSI, and other topics related to our unit around PROBLEM SOLVING and PERSPECTIVE. Here are some new questions to show your understanding of what was discussed:

E-PORT TITLE:  Unit Update, Problem Solving

Questions:

What are human rights?

What are the United Nations?

Why do you think the United Nations put human rights in a document?

What are the two human rights documents we looked at in class?

Can you name five human rights from the United Nations’ UDHR document?

Give a specific example of how human rights were taken away during the four major historical events in Canada we have been studying.

What are ethics? Why is it important to study ethics?

What is philosophy? Why do we study philosophy?

What was one of the major ethical or philosophical thinking questions we discussed from the books we read in class?  (The Giving Tree, The Important Book, Frederick, Where the Wild Things Are, and Hey Little Ant.) Pick one and tell me how you would answer that question, giving your “becauses” or reasons to prove your point.

What are the different types of fingerprints?

What are the steps to identifying bones in forensic anthropology?