Hi everybody! Whether you are an IB student, a Personal Finance student or in my Homeroom, here you will find important updates.
IB Juniors and Seniors
In IB Business Management we often use Nearpod for student engagement within lessons.
Here is a video that shows students how to use Nearpod effectively.
1) Today, listen to the Stossel Report and then try the quiz (whole group activity) by clicking here. Topic: Socially Responsible Investing Scams
2) Is mortgage lending biased? Listen here and then discuss your thoughts.
Personal Finance
In the Personal Finance course we use Nearpod for student engagement in lessons. Here is a video that shows students how to use Nearpod effectively.
Homework: Bring in your signed syllabus.
Internal Assessment Resources for IB Seniors:
From Morning Brew:
Why Oxygen is in Short Supply:
As if the Southeast US didn’t have enough to deal with already, hospitals are running low on oxygen for treating Covid-19 patients, and it’s causing ripple effects for other industries that use the stuff for their daily operations.
Big picture: The number of people hospitalized in the US with Covid-19 has exceeded 100,000 for only the second time in the pandemic. Because Covid attacks the respiratory system, patients with severe cases often require highly concentrated oxygen to help them breathe.
But diverting oxygen to hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients means it can’t be deployed for other uses. Uses like…
Water treatment: Earlier this month, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer asked residents to hold off on activities like power washing the deck in order to conserve water. Liquid oxygen is used to treat the water supply, but the city is running low because of the crush of Covid hospitalizations.
Florida’s Hillsborough County (home to Tampa) said last week that residents might notice a change in the smell or taste of their drinking water, since the water utility needed to switch up its treatment process due to the lack of oxygen.
Space: Turns out, to get to a place where there’s very little oxygen, you need a lot of it as a propellant for rockets. On Friday, NASA delayed the September launch of an earth-surveillance satellite because of the Covid-induced oxygen shortage. Other launches across the industry may be pushed back, too.
At a space conference last week, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said, “We certainly are going to make sure the hospitals are going to have the oxygen that they need” for Covid patients. But if anyone has some liquid oxygen lying around their basement, “Send me an email.”
Zoom out: It wouldn’t be a 2021 business story without a supply chain angle. Health officials say a shortage of truck drivers with the specialized skills to transport oxygen is compounding the problem.