Light pollution
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Light pollution is caused by excessive and uncontrolled artificial light from sources like outdoor advertising, projectors, and poor street lighting. It damages the atmosphere, wastes energy, and has negative impacts like progressive disappearance of visible stars, eyestrain, lack of sleep, increased risk of accidents, behavioral changes, and glare. Potential solutions include using low-energy lamps, adjusting lighting, illuminating only necessary areas, avoiding projectors, and properly directing flat, transparent lamp fixtures downward.
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𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐂𝐓 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
Students will be able to explain the role and impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. They will understand how ICT tools, such as computers, the internet, and educational software, enhance learning and teaching processes. By exploring various ICT applications, students will recognize how these technologies facilitate access to information, improve communication, support collaboration, and enable personalized learning experiences.
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭:
-Students will be able to discuss what constitutes reliable sources on the internet. They will learn to identify key characteristics of trustworthy information, such as credibility, accuracy, and authority. By examining different types of online sources, students will develop skills to evaluate the reliability of websites and content, ensuring they can distinguish between reputable information and misinformation.
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Light pollution
- 1. LIGHT POLLUTION Produce by ilumination advertising, projector light,excess artificial light,poor street lighting
- 2. CAUSES Lack of control in the trees (at night, produce oxygen instead of carbon dioxide Damage to the atmosphere Progressive disappearance of the stars
- 3. Pests A persistent change in the environment
- 4. IMPACT Energy waste Eyestrain Lack of sleep
- 6. Solutions *Use low energy lamps *Adjust the lighting off of ornamental monumental and advertising *Iluminate only those areas that need *Not use light or laser projectors
- 7. *The glass of the lamp must be flat and transparent
- 8. *The lamp should never leave the mouth of the reflector
- 9. *The mouth of the reflector always be directed toward the ground, with horizontal locking glass