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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.
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Your
Development Team will be presenting a plan
to reinhabit Kaho'olawe in the format of a map with key
elements indicated. In order to accomplish this task the following
questions will be investigated (does not have to be limited to these
two questions). (Also see presentation
and assessment)
Questions:
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:
- power
plant
- hotel
facility
- residential
zone
- transportation
network (roads, trails, etc.)
- school
- recreation
zones- to include site seeing tour for hotel
- health
zones (police, fire, etc.)
- fresh
water source
- museum
- aircraft
landing
- 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.
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