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Chapter Challenge
Your challenge is to create a booklet addressing one current issue. These booklets will be provided to the public.
The League hopes that this will produce an informed public, who is better able to decide how to vote on any given issue. Before you begin, you will need to decide which audience you are targeting. You may choose to write your booklet geared to adult voters, teenagers, or a child. Regardless of which you choose,
it is assumed that the readers will
be non-specialists and the text should be written with this in mind.
The booklets should be easily understood by your target audience.
In producing your booklet, you should:
- identify and research one current issue that threats the environment;
- provide the relevant data on the issue;
- draw attention to areas where data may be weak or lacking;
- interpret the data and indicate the limits of the interpretation.
In providing the science behind the issue, you should:
identify the roles and importance of consumers, producers, and decomposers in an ecosystem;
explain how matter is cycled and energy flows through ecosystems;
provide the meaning and the importance of biodiversity;
describe how changes in an ecosystem are determined and how they can be analyzed;
tell how fluctuations in size of a population are determined by birth, death, immigration, and emigration.
Criteria
How will your booklet be graded? What qualities should a good booklet have? Discuss these matters with your small group and with your class. You may decide some or all of the following qualities are important: significance of the issue identified;
completeness and accuracy of the ecology principles presented;
merit of the interpretations suggested;
readability of the booklet;
design and layout of the booklet.
You may have additional qualities that you would like to include. Once you have determined the criteria that you wish to use, you will need to decide on how many points should be given to each criterion. Your teacher may wish to provide you with a sample rubric to help you get started.
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