Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Geopolitics and Environment
Code: 151021

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2 Problematic

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 175 points
The activity starts on: Monday, The activity ends on: Sunday, October
September 6, 2021 10, 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

Analyze the health situation for different contexts in the health problems that arise
from the relationship between geopolitics, environmental, determinants in health and
sustainable development.

The activity consists of:

Individual activity:

All activities except the Prezi presentation, must be submitted in English as required
in the Rules and Conditions of the course

1. Visit the Learning environment and read the bibliographic references for unit 1.

2. Choose a role to develop in the collaborative group and share it on the forum:
Director, Co-Director, Leader of the debate, Rapporteur and Compiler.

3. In the forum, the first week from the opening of the activity, according to the
concepts of geopolitics and environment, determinants of health and
sustainable development studied in task 1, identify a specific problem situation
in your city or region, that affects the context where you live or work,
associated with air pollution, water pollution or soil pollution and make sure you
understand its effects on human health.

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 You must select only one problematic situation, indicating the place where it
happens and a specific human disease caused by its environmental impact.

Once the problematic situation and the disease is selected, research about
them and post in the forum a presentation in Spanish language, using
https://prezi.com/ format, including:

• Cover page
• Goals of the task
• Problematic situation description: You must include a tittle, explain the
place where it happens and use images of the study zone.
• Causes and impacts on the human health: Explain causes and impacts of
the problematic situation including the disease selected previously.
• Epidemiological Data: Describe epidemiological data associated with
mortality, morbidity, and severity of the disease. You must include
graphics or statistical data.
• Conclusions: Write 2 (two) conclusions.
• Bibliographic references according to APA standards. Minimum 5 (five)
bibliographic references, this include scientific articles and government
pages (Example: OMS, PAHO, PNUD, MinSalud).

Collaborative activity:

4. As a group propose a collaborative work planning with activities and deadlines.

5. Analysis: Assuming the chosen role, the group generates a debate about the
identified problematic situations proposed previously and select only one for the
deliverable. The group must select only one situation problematic explaining
the reasons of the selection based on the contents studied in this course.

The selection must be posted in the forum indicating the tittle of the
problematic situation, the population and the city or region affected

6. Choose a role according to the responsibility for the delivery of products by

students and share it on the forum:
Compiler, Reviewer, Evaluator, Deliveries, Alerts

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 7. Collaboratively, create a document in Word format, where the group must
include the information related to the problematic situation selected, improving
its content with the contributions of all members of the group. The collaborative
document must be maximum 4 pages and include:

• Cover page
• Links of prezi presentations of all members of the group.
• Problematic situation selected tittle
• Problematic situation selected description: Explain the place where it
happens and use images of the study zone.
• Causes and impacts on the human health: Explain causes and impacts of
the problematic situation including the disease selected previously.
• Epidemiological Data: Describe epidemiological data associated with
mortality, morbidity, and severity of the disease. You must include
graphics or statistical data.
• Conclusions: Write 2 (two) conclusions.
• Bibliographic references according to APA standards. Minimum 5 (five)
bibliographic references, this include scientific articles and government
pages (Example: OMS, PAHO, PNUD, MinSalud).

8. The student who selected deliveries role, submit the final document at the
Evaluation Environment.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

Revise the course agenda.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

Read the bibliographic references for unit 1. In the forum you can participate by
publishing the doubts and concerns that you have during the development of the
Task 1: Collaborative Work 1. So, upload the link ofhttps://prezi.com/and your
contributions for the deliverable in the forum check that the link in prezi does not ask
for username and password.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Upload the deliverable in word Format, maximum four (4) pages. In the same
document you must attach the link of prezi of everyone.

Evidences of individual work:

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The individual evidence to be submitted is:

• Presentation in the forum, choose the role and definition of problematic

situation in the first week.
• Selection of the individual problematic situation and the associated disease
• Upload the presentation in https://prezi.com/format Maximum in the third
week. It is individual

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

• Performance of the role in the forum and the deliverable

• Contributions to the debate. Minimum five (5) contributions
• A document including the content described in the activity 7 of this guide. Also
it must have the following format:

• Document in Word
• Page size: Letter
• Typeface: Arial
• Font size:12
• Interline spacing: 1.5cm

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

• All members of the group must participate with their contributions in the
development of the activity in the forum.

• In each group a single member will be chosen to submit the requested

production the environment indicated by the teacher.

• Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets
all the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

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 • Only the members of the group that participated with contributions during the
time assigned for the activity should be included as authors of the submitted
product.

Roles to perform by the student in the collaborative group (Debate):

• Director: Organize, coordinate, directing and evaluate based on their

experience on the topic, the debate within the group.
• Co-director: Complement and highlight the contributions that are relevant to
the final product.
• The leader of the debate: Generate the academic debate required to
highlight concepts and domains on the topic of discussion. It permanently
questions the group in the search for bridges between what has been learned
and what is proposed.
• Rapporteur: To argue rigorously to enrich the subject, is the one that collects
and systematizes the information to be delivered to the compiler.
• Compiler: Elaborate the document that is constituted as the final product of
the debate and the academic synthesis within the collaborative group and the
cooperative and ensures compliance with the criteria of the rubric.

Roles and responsibility for the delivery of products by students:

• Compiler: Consolidate the document that is constituted by the final product of

the debate, considering that the participants included were only who
intervened in the process. You must inform the person in charge of the alerts
to whoever, notifies those who did not participate, that they are not included
in the product to be delivered.
• Reviewer: Ensure that the writing complies with the presentation rules of the
work required by the teacher.
• Evaluator: Ensure that the document contains the criteria present in the
rubric. You must inform the person in charge of the alerts so that you inform
the other members of the team in case any adjustments need to be made on
the subject.
• Deliveries: Alert on the delivery times of the products and send the document
in the stipulated times, using the resources destined for the shipment, and
indicate to the other partners that the delivery has been made.
• Alerts: Ensure that the members of the group are notified of new
developments at work and inform the documents in the work forum and
messaging of the course, which has sent the document.

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Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual
campus.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that infringe the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e) Plagiarism is to present as your own
work all or part of a written report, task or document of invention carried out by
another person. It also implies the use of citations or lack of references, or it
includes citations where there is no match between these and the reference and
paragraph f) To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational resources or results of
research products, which have rights reserved for the University. (Acuerdo 029 - 13
de diciembre de 2013, artículo 99)

The academic penalties students will face are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the academic work or evaluation, the
score obtained will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of any nature, the score obtained
will be zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures being derived.

3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
The highest score in this activity is 175 points
First evaluation
High level: The student publishes the presentation in Prezi
criterion:
format maximum in the third week with the requested elements
in the guide and fully complies the proposal of the collaborative
Participation in the
work planning.
forum with a
presentation in
If your work is at this level, you can get between 26 points
Prezi format
and 50 points
describing the
problem situation

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 Average level: The student publishes the presentation in Prezi
This criterion format with some of the requested elements in the guide or does
represents 50 not comply the collaborative work planning.
points of the total
of 175 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 points
the activity. and 25 points

Low level: The student did not publish the presentation in Prezi
format with the requested elements in the guide.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 0 points
Second evaluation High level: The student participates in the forum with at least
criterion: 5 pertinent and opportune contributions for the development of
the debate and these contributed to the collaborative activity.
Individual
participation in the If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
debate and 25 points

This criterion Average level: The student participates in the forum with
represents 25 at least 2 relevant and timely contributions for the development
points of the total of the debate and these contributed to the collaborative activity
of 175 points of
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 points
and 14 points

Low level: The student does not participate in the forum or its
contributions are not relevant for the development of the
debate.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 0 points
Third evaluation High level: The analysis fully complies with the requested
criterion: aspects and the format is adequate.

Presentation of the If your work is at this level, you can get between 46 points
document analyzing and 90 points
the problematic
Average level: The analysis does not fully comply with the
requested aspects or is not presented in the appropriate format.

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This criterion
represents 90 If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 points
points of the total and 45 points
of 175 points of
the activity. Low level: The analysis is not presented or it is not related to
the selected problematic situation.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points

and 0 points
Fourth evaluation High level: The student presents the document evidencing the
criterion: development of the activities, with satisfactory grammatical
norms, using APA referencing standards.
Presentation of the
document, writing, If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
spelling and citation and 10 points
in APA standards
Average level: The student presents a document evidencing
This criterion the development of the activities, but it is missing some
represents 10 guidelines.
points of the total
of 175 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 points
the activity. and 5 points

Low level: The student does not present a document with the
development of the proposed activities

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 0 points