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Investigating Environmental Legislation

Lesson Five
Letters to Local and State Legislators

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  • Objectives
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  • Activity Description
  • Internet Resources

  • Brief Description

        Students send letters to their local and state legislators critiquing their voting record on environmental issues and sharing their own views on these important issues. Up to Contents

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    Objectives

        Students will:

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    Materials and Resources

        In developing our lessons and activities, we made some assumptions about the hardware and software that would be available in the classroom for teachers who visit the LETSNet Website. We assume that teachers using our Internet-based lessons or activities have a computer (PC or Macintosh) with the necessary hardware components (mouse, keyboard, and monitor) as well as software (operating system, TCP/IP software, networking or dial-up software, e-mail and a World Wide Web client program, preferably Netscape, but perhaps Mosaic or Lynx). In the section below, we specify any "special" hardware or software requirements for a lesson or activity (in addition to those described above) and the level of Internet access required to do the activity.

    1. Special hardware requirements: none.
    2. Special software requirements: none.
    3. Internet access: low-speed (less than 28,800 BPS via phone).
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