treading lightly
treading lightly |
CONSidering the big question ....
How can individuals and industries tread lightly on our planet and still maintain the lifestyles we all require or enjoy?
First, print or ask your teacher for a copy of the Problem Solving Matrix.
Task #16: As a team ....
a. From the “tread lightly” efforts you researched at websites and from your lists of individual changes you could make, agree on the five efforts or changes that have the most potential for helping man “tread lightly” and still maintain lifestyles we require and enjoy.
b. Determine the criteria that you will use to rate each change or effort on your list. Enter the criteria and the “treading lightly” efforts or changes on the matrix. As a team, agree on and enter your ratings. Check with your teacher to determine if you are to turn in your matrix for a grade or class credit.
Task #17: On your own, revisit your team’s completed matrix and select any two separate scores. Identify the scores you choose by the cell they are in such as Change 3, Criterion 5. In a written explanation, make a case to support why your team chose these two ratings. Or instead you may write a “dissenting” opinion, explaining why you were in the minority and did not agree with your team’s rating in this case.
Task #18: As an individual, write an explanation of how the practice, change, or effort that scored the highest on your matrix was or was not an example of compromise. Does this winning idea or action require more than one interest group or individual to make sacrifices? Who loses and who gains? How does the idea change the lifestyles we are accustomed to?
Last but not least ...
Task #19: Review the efforts that you and others are making or could make to tread lightly. Would you take action to convince others of the need to support these practices, actions, or efforts? Can man leave paw prints on the sands of time in a way that still leaves a livable Earth for future generations? Register your thoughts at the Minequest Lobby.
Moving on ...
Check to see that you have turned in any work that your teacher requires for evaluation or to earn a class grade.
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