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Investigating Environmental Legislation

Lesson Three
Write a research report

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  • Brief Description

        Following their research, students write and peer edit reports on their local and state legislators. Students are encouraged to develop their own criteria for evaluating their legislators and focus on specific environmental issues such as endangered species, toxic waste, or timber/logging on federal lands.

        Students write - individually or in small groups - a research report on their local and state legislators. As with any collaborative project, activities can be assigned or partitioned to students in a variety of ways, from having some students write specific parts of the report to having everyone work together on all of the report (see Teamwork Big Idea). Up to Contents

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    Objectives

        Students will:

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    Materials and Resources

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    1. Special hardware requirements: none.
    2. Special software requirements: none.
    3. Internet access: none.
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