Research and Review 5x5 Biodiversity and Education

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Biodiversity and Education| a2bitnickel

ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AND REVIEW 3


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Research and Review

Before you start each story do some research.

Where should you look?

The title helps you find the ideas. In this title we find three (3) words

that will help us.

The url is ~http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/simcity-the-greenest-ever-sims-is-here-8527077.html?origin=internalSearch

Gadgets ~ Games ~ Education

Now go find some information to answer these three questions

Find some ideas like ~

What are three education strategies?

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Why are they effective strategies?

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What solutions can you find to help educate people about the

environment?

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Discuss this when you get to class.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/simcity-the-greenest-ever-sims-is-here-8527077.html?origin=internalSearchhttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/simcity-the-greenest-ever-sims-is-here-8527077.html?origin=internalSearchhttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/simcity-the-greenest-ever-sims-is-here-8527077.html?origin=internalSearchhttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/simcity-the-greenest-ever-sims-is-here-8527077.html?origin=internalSearchhttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/simcity-the-greenest-ever-sims-is-here-8527077.html?origin=internalSearch


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Topic ~ Biodiversity and Education 5x5

Step 1 ~~ Think about 5 different ideas that biodiversity. Look

at your research to help you.

1.___Gadgets ____

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Step 2 ~~ Make 5 questions about each idea. One is done for you.

1.___ Gadgets ________

i) What is the biggest concern about gadgets?ii) Which gadgets are the most effective?iii) Why can humans learn from gadgets?iv) Who gains the most from better education?v) What advantages are there to using gadgets in education?

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Step 3 ~~ Make longer one sentence answers for each question.

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Read the story

SimCity: The greenest ever Sims is here

The cult urban planning strategy game is back after ten years and could be the

most environmentally friendly game ever.

While some people use computer games to play out their fantasies of killing Nazis, winning the

World Cup or, yes, stealing a Ford Mustang and running over a granny, for others theresnothing more compelling than sitting down for a few daring hours of urban planning.

The thrilling, competitive and sometimes taboo-breaking appeals of games like Call of Duty,

Fifa and Grand Theft Autoare obvious, if not everyones cup ofcomputer-generated tea. Yet the

millions of sales garnered by SimCity during the mid 90s proved that the ostensibly dullprospect of designing imaginary logistics and infrastructure can be gripping too.

Now the cult strategy game is back after ten years, launching in the UK today with a typically

dry-sounding tag: it could well be the most environmentally friendly game ever. Despite

sounding like a game reserved for the modest demographic of computer geeks whose wallets

contain Greenpeace membership cards, it is poised to prove once again that seeing mayoralopinion polls rise by opting for clean hydroelectric dams over dirty fossil fuelsand avoiding

drought by building too big a city in too dry an areacan be just as satisfying as seeing your

pixelated alter-ego blow up Hitler.


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So just as books and films have inspired artists and world leaders, can green games help

change the world?

For better or for worse, yes, says the new versions creative director, Ocean Quigley. I know

a lot of people who say they became city planners, architects or civil engineers because ofSimCity... Its the game that takes the environment most seriously. A green city is something

youre striving for, and the consequences of not having an environmentally clean city are made

obvious. Just as city planning cannot always go to plan, so too with game launches.

The new SimCity requires a constant internet connection, but many users in the US have beenunable to access the systemsome websites had to postpone their verdicts because their

reviewers could notplay it. Todays launch in the UK seems to have gone more smoothly, but

there are still reports of some British fans being disappointed.

For those who can get online, the enhanced environmental aspect of the game might fox some

players. Asked to step away from his newts for a few hours to try his hand at running a virtualmetropolis on SimCityfor a Granada TV show hosted by Tony Wilson back in the mid 90s,former London mayor Ken Livingstone immediately opted to power his town by coal to ensure,

predictably, strong trade unions. Were he to play the new game with that kind of attitude, its

likely a virtual Boris Johnson would come along and stamp on his electoral prospects.

It could hardly be more different to role-playing shoot em ups, not only in genre, but to a large

extent in moralitybuilding something good rather than destroying itwhich is how Mr.Quigley prefers things. You are the god of this landscape, making decisions that dramatically

impact the wellbeing of an entire population. So youre not a thug going through the city trying

to steal cars, you are the one making decisions that affect hundreds of thousands of your little

Sims going about their lives.

He adds: The subject matter of a game like Grand Theft Autodoesnt appeal to me personally,though I have immense respect for its designers Grand Theft Auto is the inverse of SimCity.

Youre the authorities trying to make the city work, but there are these bad actors in your city. If

you dont educate your city, you have these criminals going through creating mayhem, burningdown houses and robbing shops, and they become a pox on your city.

Part of the fun, of course, comes from seeing the bad effects of bad choices. Indeed, for thesadistic municipal overlords, you can let the citizens sicken or die and watch what happens.

Youre going to have a bunch of people who arent going to work and arent going shopping,

the economics of your city will suffer, and as the people who remain will be miserably unhappy

and abandon your city as environmentally refugees, youll end up with large swathes of decrepitabandoned city as a result, says the designer.

There are still more silly risks involved in being a SimCitymayor of course, ranging from asmall-scale raid by UFOs to a giant lizard that comes and stomps through your city. However,

Mr. Quigley insists these have a more serious purpose. Zombies start coming out and they


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infect other people, and thats an epidemic simulation of the flu or ibola. Its doing it with acomical, absurd skin, but in terms of its impact on the city theyre aproxy for infectious diseases.

So what is the fascination with creating a make-belief city, even if it does mean spending hours

planning a water and electricity system? Theres a fascination of creating a little model versionof the world that you lord it over, that youre the creator of and the god of, Mr Quigley tells The

Independent.

It is about the mundane realities of the world around us, youre not commanding a squad of

space marines with laser guns to shoot at the bug aliensyoure dealing with commutercongestion. You project your own experience into the game, in a way that I think is deeper and

resonates more.

The graphics in SimCity resemble American cities. But in terms of realism, of course, most of the

biggest new cities in the world are in Chinaplaces that barely anyone in the West has heard of

but which contain millions of residents, their high rises apartment blocks eating up vast tracts ofland and changing the global balance of power.

SimCity is much more like a new city built by the Chinese Communists over the course of three

years out in the middle of nowhere, and has all the pros and cons: a rational design but all thepollution and congestion and healthcare issues.

China is hardly known for any care for the environment in its urban landscapethe pollution

readings for some of its cities regularly top the maximum reading on the scientific scale. Perhaps

Beijing would be a better place if the countrys new president, Xi Jinping, took a bit of time off

to play the game.

Vocabulary check

Find the colored words and look them up in the dictionary. There

are ten (10) of them.

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Step 4

Step 4 is to put all the answers into paragraphs. Each of the five (5)

in section one (1) is a paragraph. You will have a 5 paragraph essay

now.

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Step 5 is to add an introduction and a conclusion. Do this for your

essay homework.


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Graphic Organization ~

Main topic = 5 Paragraph Topics

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topic

paragraph 1

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paragraph 3

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Discussion Graphic ~ How is education linked to habitats?

Answer ~ I think education (are / are not) is linked to habitats because

Problem /

Habitats and Education

Education costs too muchmoney.

Respond

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Habitats make nice scienceclasses, but with internetvideo we do not need to

worry about them.

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Human needs are moreimportant than exotic

species.

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graphic ~ choose one statement from the list above.

Write it here _____________________________________________

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To make your argument you should understand that they are connected.

In the next two charts (1) list your argument facts and ideas, (2) show how your argument

connects to both the center point and the other points.

Facts

For Against

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graphic ~ choose one statement from the list above.

Now start the .

As a team choose which points they will speak about.

Each person will listen for the opposite point and create a new response to what the

other person has said.

A: point 1

B: responds to the point and give a new point.

C: responds to B and give a new point.

After all persons have spoken each person can respond to any point given by the opposite team,

or add more points from their team which will need responding to from the opposite team.

If this -- then

If this -- then

If this -- then

If this -- then

If this -- then

Write your statement position here.

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