The island of Kaho`olawe was used as a target for gunnery and bombing practice by the Armed Forces of the United States for many years. While the US Navy maintains responsibility for its cleanup, in 1994 it was officially returned to the stewardship of the state of Hawaii. How the cleanup and the management of Kaho`olawe are handled in the next few years will have a lasting impact on Hawaiian youth. Young people everywhere can learn how human activities may affect the environment and how the deleterious effects of some of these may be better understood, and in some cases reversed, using geographic data and information. The Introduction from the related reading in the Surveyor software will give you the background about the island. Similar information is available in as a web-based PowerPoint here.

A. How was the island affected by the gunnery and bombing practices of the Armed Forces of the United States?
B. How can Kaho’olawe be restored for utilization by the Hawaiian people?

Your Development Team consists of the following members:

1. Biologist
2. Geologist
3. Anthropologist
4. Watershed Expert

Task
The Team is to design a model town optimizing the resources of the island. Teams will research and analyze the current and past condition of the island, utilizing each team member to make a well informed decision. Students are to make a map of the island with all the required items clearly labeled. Include the following items on the island:

1. power plant
2. hotel facility
3. residential zone
4. transportation network (roads, trails, etc.)
5. school
6. recreation zones- to include site seeing tour for hotel
7. health zones (police, fire, etc.)
8. fresh water source
9. museum
10. aircraft landing
11. nature sanctuary

The class is divided into teams of 4. Each team member takes on one of the roles. In your team study the role cards. Each team member has a different role/perspective. Notice the various foci of each team member. After the roles have been decided the jigsaw method will be used to gather all the students from the various teams of the same roll- Expert collaboration.

Expert collaboration: Now all the like roles are to gather and start researching the island from your role's perspective. Use the available resources to form an opinion about where key items should go on the island based on your role (all the biologists gather together, all the watershed experts etc.). Experts should study their role and use the available resources to establish their perspective and discuss where certain items should go on the island and why based on their perspective. All other roles will do the same thing. The expert collaboration stage is where each team member should have built up their knowledge base for informing the team of important issues from their perspective. It might be helpful to have a computer with the Surveyor software open, a word processor open on another computer and the Internet resources on another computer for each expert group. Each group of experts type up key facts/issues to print out and take back with them when they go back to their Development Team to refer back to as the Development Team decide placement of items on the island.

Once research and perspectives have been established within the roles, Development Teams come back together to construct their plan of the items on the island. This is where the and how well the students researched their will determine if the students make the best choices. Each team member is to listen to the other perspectives as the team decides where items should go on the island.