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Forum 2.7 - We All Sink

2/28/2021

Guiding Inquiry: How can human's effect on the planet be seen in our interactions with others? (3.4.a, 3.4.c)

Guiding Thought Question: List and explain at least three different ways that environmental changes connect to human conflict.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine and discuss the root of global conflicts and how they can be connected to environmental causes.

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Forum 2.6 - The Concern of All

2/28/2021

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Guiding Inquiry: To what extent are humans involved in the processes of climate change and how could we be affected? (3.1.b, 3.2.a, 3.3.a, 3.3.b)

Guiding Thought Question: In 3-4 sentences write your best "elevator pitch" explaining why everyone should be concerned about what happens to the environment.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine the human and natural factors that affect the climate of the planet and participate in a hands-on activity and discussion about the potential causes and impacts.

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Forum 2.5 - Limits to Ownership?

2/21/2021

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Guiding Inquiry: How do human's economic habits affect the planet's species? (3.2.a, 3.3.b)

Guiding Thought Question: What restrictions, if any, should there be on our abilities to buy, sell, and own different species? Why should those restrictions be there? Or, if you said there should not be any restrictions explain your reasoning.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine how economic demands, including those of the black market, affect global species and the economic, social, political, and environmental impacts of these forces.

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Forum 2.4 - How to get people to care?

2/16/2021

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Guiding Inquiry: What impacts are we having on the plants and animals we share the planet with? (3.2.a, 3.3.a)

Guiding Thought Question: What strategies can we use here in our local community to get people to care about endangered animals around the world? Explain why you think your strategy will work.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will learn about the extent of the 6th mass extinction by watching a video about its causes, effects, and examples, and then participating in an interactivity meant to engage students with endangered species around the world.

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Forum 2.3 - Who Conquers Who?

2/16/2021

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Guiding Inquiry: How are concentrations of human connected to the natural environment around the world? (3.1.a, 3.1.b, 3.2.a, 3.3.a, 3.3.b)

Guiding Thought Question: Can humans truly conquer nature? Or are we completely at its mercy? or somewhere in between? Explain your answer.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine the connection between major urban centers and the environmental impacts, and how the environment affects development by debating the concepts of Environmental Determinism and Possibilism and completing a webquest mapping activity.

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Forum 2.1 - Perceived Self Importance?

1/31/2021

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Guiding Inquiry: What is the Anthropocene and is it a fair way to classify our current time period? (3.2.a, 3.3.a)

Guiding Thought Question: Is it fair to claim that humans are now the dominant force of change on the planet or does it just connect to a view of ourselves as more influential than we actually are? Provide an example to support to your ideas.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine the definition of the Anthropocene and debate its usage by completing an in-class writing assignment.

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Forum 2.2 - When is enough, enough?

1/31/2021

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Guiding Inquiry: What responsibility do we have to maintain natural resources? Or are they simply here for our use? (3.3.a, 3.4.a)

Guiding thought Question: What do you think it would take to take to convince climate and environmental skeptics that humans are having a marked effect on the environment?

Today's Learning Objective: Students will review theories of population and how they reflect human's relationship with the environment and debate the ideas of environmental determinism and possibilism.

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Forum 1.2 - Why Focus on Parks?

5/28/2020

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Guiding Inquiry: How was the idea of environmentalism formed and how has it diffused over space and time? (3.3.a, 3.4.b)

Guiding Thought Question: When studying the spread of the global conservation movement why is it helpful to focus on the growth of National Parks? What is another way that you could use to mark the spread of environmentalist ideals?

Today's Learning Objectives: Students will learn about the philosophical beginnings of the conservationist movement and analyze its spread through completing a geoinquiry on the topic.

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Forum 1.4 - All or Nothing?

5/26/2020

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Guiding Inquiry: Is the United Nations an appropriate agency to tackle environmental conservation? (3.2.c, 3.4.b, 3.4.c)

Guiding Thought Question: Is it necessary for all countries to be unified in the common goal of environmental protection or can individual countries choose not to and still accomplish the objectives? Explain your answer

Today's Learning Objective: Students will debate the merits of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals as a means to better understand them and see how they are applied across the world.

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Forum 4.4 - Territorial Waters vs. Open Ocean

5/22/2020

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Guiding Inquiry: Why are Marine Protected Areas needed and why are they so much harder to organize? (1.1.f, 2.1.a, 3.2.a, 3.1.b)

Guiding Thought Question: Are Marine Protected Areas going to be more difficult to establish in International Waters, or the territorial waters of individual countries? Explain your answer.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine what international laws apply to the use of maritime resources and examine the effect that Marine Protected Areas can have on the preservation of fisheries and protecting endangered species and ecosystems.

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