Conservation No.1

ASSIGNMENT NO.1

Welcome to Conservation of Natural Resources. I hope that you will benefit from these assignments. Assignment 1 is simply to introduce you to the Internet
Once you have secured your e-mail accounts from the basement of the administration building, you will be ready to go. Or you can use your own personal computer account. Follow the directions and answer the questions below and e-mail the answers to Prof. Good at dangood@gasou.edu

"Getting Started"
Go to Netscape, click on open and type http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/1894/index.html
This will take you to Good's homepage. Click on weather and climate. Click on NWS/GaSoU Weather and click. (or you can go to Real Time Weather from GSU
Answer Questions:
What is the:
1. time and date?
2. current temperature?
3. Minimum/Maximum temperature and when?
4. wind direction and speed?
5. rainfall for the day?
Hit back and go to Weather Channel.
Click on U.S. Maps. Choose a weather map.
6. Click on tropical update. Explain what you found there. (i.e. good, bad, ugly, etc.) Also, look at maps.
Click on Back several times until you reach Good's page. Click on Maps and then click on Maps On Us.
7. Plan Route from your hometown to Columbus, Ohio, by setting a beginning address (hometown, state) and the ending address (Columbus, Ohio). What is your hometown?
8. How long will it take?
9. How many turns?
10. How many miles?
11. Try out other features of Maps On Us. Write paragraph telling what you think about site and how site might help students learn geographic locations, etc.
12. Click on your favvorite search engine or use one on Good's page.. Type in something like Cascade Mtns, longleaf pine, black footed ferret, your home town, grizzly bears, U.S. Forest Service, Okefenokee Swamp, or any of thousands of things.etc.) and click on Go get it or search. Look over sites and pick one and do the following:
A. Give http address and title of site
B. Summarize site's contents
C. Relate site to importance of knowing geographic places. Use imagination here.
D. Opinion of site? Good, bad, cool, etc.?
13. Check out sites like www.cnn.com and www.usatoday.com
Write brief paragraph about what you found there, how you liked it, etc.
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