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Direction: How does COVID-19 affect different age groups? Make a research about this and
complete the matrix below.
What would your life be if you lived in a different country? Draw yourself, write a poem or a
song, as you answer this question.
I will go to work riding my bicycle. I lived in a simple house with a little garden outside. I can
roam around the city to clean my mind. My life in Amsterdam will be simple yet fun.
Authentic Assessment
Direction: Which between nature and nurture would most likely influence the following traits?
Choose only one between nature and nurture and defend your side by citing articles.
NURTURE
TOPIC NATURE (HEREDITY) REFERENCES
(ENVIRONMENT)
• People are exposed • CDC Works 24/7.
with chemicals (2020, October
throughout their lives. 15). Centers for
Chemicals are Disease Control
present in the food we and Prevention.
eat, clothes, furniture, • Facts about
housing materials, Developmental
and more. Evidence Disabilities |
suggests that NCBDDD | CDC.
chemicals, especially (2019, September
those harmful 26). Centers for
chemicals out there Disease Control
can cause damage to and Prevention.
the central nervous https://www.cdc.go
system which can v/ncbddd/develop
impact developmental mentaldisabilities/f
Developmental disabilities (CDC acts.html
Disability Works 24/7, 2020).
• Most developmental
disabilities are
thought to be cause
by many factors.
These factors include,
genetics, parental
health and behavior
(smoking and
drinking,
complications during
birth, infections, and
environmental toxins,
such as lead (Facts
about Developmental
Disabilities | NCBDDD
| CDC, 2019).
• Scientists have • How much of
estimated that human height is
individual’s height is genetic and how
determined by much is due to
genetics. 80 percent of nutrition? (2006,
individual’s height is December 11).
determined by the DNA Scientific
sequence variants they American.
have inherited (Is https://www.scienti
Height Determined by ficamerican.com/ar
Genetics?: ticle/how-much-of-
MedlinePlus Genetics, human-height/
2020) • Is height
• The short answer to determined by
this question is that genetics?:
Height
about 60 to 80 percent MedlinePlus
of the difference in Genetics. (2020).
height between MedlinePlus.
individuals is https://medlineplus
determined by genetic .gov/genetics/unde
factors, whereas 20 to rstanding/traits/hei
40 percent can be ght/#:%7E:text=Sci
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Much Is Due to od.
Nutrition?, 2006).
• Temperament as • Saudino, K.
constitutionally (2005). Behavioral
determined features Genetics and Child
of reactivity and self- Temperament.
regulation. The NCBI.
authors of this • Novgorodova, Y.,
approach suppose et al. (2013).
that temperament Genetic and
develops over time: Environmental
different emotions and Influences on the
their components Individual
appear in different Differences of
ages (Rothbart and Temperament in
Derryberry, 2013). Primary School
• Developmental Children.
Temperament
change in Procedia- Social
observed temperame and Behavioral
nt was primarily due Sciences. 86. 435-
to 440.
nonshared environm
ental influences;
however, for
activity, affect/extrave
rsion, task orientation,
and behavioral
inhibition there was
evidence of new
genetic effects at
different ages
(Saudino, 2005).
• Intelligence is also • Is intelligence
strongly influenced by determined by
the environment. genetics?
Factors related to a MedlinePlus
child’s home Genetics. (2020).
environment and MedlinePlus.
parenting, education • Roth, J. (2018,
and availability of April 3). Genes
learning resources, and environment
and nutrition, among have equal
others, all contribute influence in
to intelligence. learning for rich
Intelligence • The thinking was and poor kids,
that, for people of study finds. Phys
lower socio-economic Org.
status, a person's
intelligence is
influenced more by
his or her
environment than by
genetics, meaning
whether a child
reaches full potential
depends on economic
standing (Roth, 2018).
• There is no single • Akpan, N. (2019,
gene responsible for a August 29). There
person being gay or a is no ‘gay gene.’
lesbian. There is no
• There’s a lot of study ‘straight gene.’
that says that being Sexuality is just
gay or lesbian is complex, study
based on genes. I still confirms. PBS
believe that being gay NewsHour.
Gay/Lesbian
or lesbian can be https://www.pbs.or
(SOGIE)
influenced by g/newshour/scienc
environment. The way e/there-is-no-gay-
his/her parents live, gene-there-is-no-
their lifestyle, the straight-gene-
people he/she usually sexuality-is-just-
with, and more. If the complex-study-
child was exposed to confirms
a gay/lesbian • Tatchell, P. (2015,
environment he/she October 12). ‘Gay
have a high chance of gene’ debunked?
being influence by Environment
that trait. influences
• If gayness was only sexuality.
explainable in Pressenza.
biological terms, we https://www.presse
would expect it to nza.com/2015/10/g
appear in the same ay-gene-
proportions, and in debunked-
similar forms, in all environment-
cultures and all influences-
epochs. As the sexuality/
anthropologists
Clellan Ford and
Frank Beach
demonstrated in
Patterns of Sexual
Behavior (1965), far
from being cross-
culturally uniform and
stable, both the
incidence and specific
expressions of same-
sex desire vary vastly
between different
societies.