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Preserving Our Natural Areas

Prepare a persuasive letter or an oral statement, directed to a specific group, that expresses your views on the preservation of national parks, provincial parks and protected areas in Alberta.


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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 4.1.1.4 - Students will appreciate the environmental significance of national and provincial parks and protected areas in Alberta (ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 4.1.2.5 - How are Alberta's provincial parks and protected areas and the national parks in Alberta important to the sustainability of Alberta's natural environment? (ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 4.1.4.3 - How do Albertans deal with competing demands on land use (e.g., conservation, solar and wind power, recreation, agriculture, oil exploration, forestry)? (ER, LPP)
Specific Outcome 4.1.4.6 - Whose responsibility should it be to ensure the preservation of national parks, provincial parks and protected areas in Alberta? (C, LPP, PADM)
Specific Outcome 4.S.1.1 - Students will evaluate significant local and current affairs, distinguishing between fact and opinion
Specific Outcome 4.S.1.3 - Students will re-evaluate opinions to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome 4.S.5.5 - Students will share information collected from electronic sources to add to a group task
Specific Outcome 4.S.7.7 - Access and retrieve appropriate information from the Internet by using a specific search path or from given uniform resource locations (URLs)
Specific Outcome 4.S.8.1 - Students will organize and present information, taking particular audiences and purposes into consideration
Specific Outcome 4.S.8.4 - Students will create visual images for particular audiences and purposes
Specific Outcome 4.S.8.6 - Students will communicate effectively through appropriate forms, such as speeches, reports and multimedia presentations, applying information technologies that serve particular audiences and purposes
Specific Outcome 4.S.9.2 - Students will examine diverse perspectives regarding an issue presented in the media
Specific Outcome 4.S.9.3 - Identify and distinguish points of view expressed in electronic sources on a particular topic
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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