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| Investigate the reasons why Styrofoam cups,
food containers, plates, etc. will never disappear from landfills. Design an advertising
billboard for an environmental awareness campaign, and make a small scale drawing. |
About 77% of all the water
that your family uses is for personal hygiene and toilet flushing. Propose a practical
household water conservation plan with five suggestions. Create a poster that will
depict your plan. |
Evaluate the tasks of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), and choose the one task you consider to be the most
important. Make a taped recording detailing your choice and your reasoning, and send
your tape to the EPA in Washington, D. C. |
| Select the three best alternatives to
sanitary landfills, and, in a written proposal to a local government official, defend your
choices as more environmentally sound methods of waste disposal. |
The Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio was
so polluted from industrial dumping that it actually caught fire. Imagine you have
inside information about an industry that is polluting a river near you. What will
you do? Create a flow chart with a step-by-step plan of action. |
Survey the types of emissions (and their
effects) from an untreated, coal-fired electricity generating station. As though you
were a concerned citizen observer using scientific instruments, keep a three-day diary of
your observations and create an action plan based on your observations. |
or choose a similar situation of your
choosing.
| Using Power Point, present your action plan to the
class based on the situation that your group has chosen. |
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