Mission:
Introduction
The quality of the environment influences the quality of life in areas of the country.
The Problem
You are a team of highly skilled and trained professional. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to provide a comprehensive folio of information on the Water Quality of the Gulf of Mexico for the client, the CCC (Concerned Coastal Citizens). The information you need for this mission is contained in this brown envelope. Read it and then press the button on this tape recorder. STEP BACK! This tape will self-destruct in 5 minutes. Remember your enemies are time and inaccuracy and to beat them you must BE CREATIVE and carefully read the instructions!
The Task
As individual members of the Mission:Possible Team you each have roles. You will research an assigned issue or area of the Water Quality issue. In the table below you have been assigned a product to produce for the client. As a Mission:Possible Team you will come together to present the information to the client, Concerned Coastal Citizens.
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The Process
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Evaluation
| Beginning | Developing | Accomplished | |
| Product | information present
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information present
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creative elements present
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| Presentation | team effort not visible |
team effort visible
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team effort visible
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| Overall Project | room for improvement | pleasing with good information
one or more elements lacking |
Pleasing, creative and well presented |
Student Page
Description of Roles:
| Scientist: | For your role as a scientist for the Team, use hard facts and data to support the list of problems with water quality in the Gulf of Mexico. Use the Rice, Government and BTNEP sites to provide a list of issues which concern the citizens who live near and play in the Gulf of Mexico. Be sure to include graphics, downloaded by using the right mouse button, on your overhead. |
| Government Liason: | Use your EPA site to find information on the Clean Water Act. This act protects the waters of the country from adverse effects and promotes a healthy ocean. Using the Clean Water Act as a focus of your poster, highlight how the CWA works to protect the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Fisherpeople: | Using the fisheries data in the resouce site compose an overhead with the most recently available data about the fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. The abundance of fisheries, shellfish and finfish, indicates a general health of the ocean. Indicate our place in the world market of fisheries. Pose a question about declining shrimp catches in the Gulf of Mexico related to water quality. |
| Coastal Resident: | Your quality of life in the coastal area is severely effected by water quality. You swim, boat, fish and relax near this large marine system. Using the information in the tourism site construct a map of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and indicate some interesting sites, some historic and cultural sites, as well as, large population centers of importance. Be sure that your map is large enough for the client to see! |
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Conservationist/ Environmentalist: |
You are a member of a grass roots organization who oversees the quality of the environment of the coast. For your product you want to produce a tri-fold brochure about the with some facts, problems, solutions and treasures of the Gulf of Mexico. Our endangered species are a treasure for the area, be sure to highlight them! Be sure to try out making a tri-fold brochure before actually making your product. Your resource sites have information about endangered species in the area, as well as the What and How of Beach Clean-ups! The Algae Bloom site will allow you to click and see if an algae bloom is in progress in any of the coastal states. |
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