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The
Fishing
Game
is
an
activity
that
places
students
in
the
role
of
manager
in
the
National
Fish
and
Wildlife
Service.
They
are
charged
with
the
responsibility
of
making
policy
suggestions
regarding
the
management
of
a
fishery
surrounding
national
borders.
Fishing
is
an
important
source
of
economic
income
for
their
country
so
their
decisions
must
ensure
the
healthy
maintenance
of
the
fish
population
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The
purpose
of
this
lesson
is
to
familiarize
students
with
the
different
types
of
transnational
pollution,
and
to
give
them
an
opportunity
to
role
play
in
a
hypothetical
case
of
transnational
pollution
on
the
Danube
River.
This
lesson
introduces
the
grandest
and
most
threatening
problem
of
the
global
environment-transnational
pollution.
The
flow
of
pollutants
across
national
boundaries
has
confirmed
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Educational standards associated with this resource:
National Geography Standards: Read
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The
United
States
Government's
Invasive
Species
website
is
the
gateway
to
Federal
efforts
concerning
invasive
species.
On
this
site
users
can
learn
about
the
impacts
of
invasive
species
and
the
Federal
government's
response,
as
well
as
read
select
species
profiles
and
find
links
to
agencies
and
organizations
dealing
with
invasive
species
issues.
This
is
also
the
website
for
the
National
Invasive
Species
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This
pdf
document
commissioned
by
the
Pew
Ocean
Commission
describes
the
problem
of
invasive
species
along
the
United
States
coastline.
The
document
provides
information
regarding
how
bioinvasions
occur,
the
number
of
invasive
species
introduced,
the
effects
of
bioinvasions,
prevention,
reduction
and
control
of
marine
bioinvasions
and
recommendations
for
action
against
invasive
species
invasion.
The
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This
Starting
Point
webpage
is
the
summary
of
a
role-playing
resource
called
Mock
Environmental
Summit.
The
exercise
takes
place
at
the
end
of
a
six-week
class
or
unit
on
global
warming.
Students
role-play
representatives
from
various
countries
and
organizations
at
an
international
summit
on
the
Santa
Barbara
protocol,
dealing
with
global
warming.
The
students
prepare
by
studying
the
IPCC
report
on
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Assessments:
Read (1)
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Over
the
course
of
several
lessons,
this
lesson
plan
deals
with
the
consequences
of
damming
in
the
Grand
Canyon
area.
Students
act
as
scientists
investigating
the
damming
of
the
Colorado
River
by
the
Glen
Canyon
dam
and
experimental
flooding
that
took
place
in
1996.
They
then
write
a
proposal
as
to
whether
or
not
more
experimental
flooding
should
be
done
on
the
area
considering
the
ecological
effects.
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In
this
assignment,
students
explore
the
origin
and
distribution
of
oil
and
gas
in
a
region
of
global
significance.
Also
included
are
the
geologic
history
and
the
socio-political
and
environmental
issues
associated
with
hydrocarbon
exploration
and
production.
Students
then
walk
through
an
online
case
study
and
write
an
essay
addressing
important
points
that
they
have
learned.
The
Calibrated
Peer
Review
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This
role-playing
exercise
casts
students
as
scientific
specialists,
assigned
to
a
group
either
supporting
or
opposing
the
cloning
of
dinosaurs.
There
are
4-6
specialists
(or
groups
of
specialists):
geneticists,
ecologists,
etc.,
on
each
side.
Each
side
researches
for
a
couple
of
weeks
and
presents
its
argument
in
class
(usually
a
single
class
period
for
each
side),
and
other
students
can
ask
the
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This site from SERC presents Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about dam removal. The questions examine the biological effects of dam removal, the reasoning behind dam removal, and the studies that should be conducted before, during and after dam removal.
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This site from SERC features Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about water issues related to Egypt's Aswan High Dam. The questions examine costs of the dam, good and bad environmental changes, as well as positive and negative impacts on the local people from construction of the dam.
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