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Natural Resources Poster Project (SS11)

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INTRO: Imagine you are an employee at an advertising agency.  Your job is to choose ONE natural resource (taken directly from the nature & our physical environment) and to create a poster that will promote the wise use of it, by focusing in on problems and solutions.

CHOOSE A TOPIC from the list below, or check your original idea with the teacher before going ahead.

Here is an excellent encyclopedia for you to use. Start with basic facts, ask questions and look further.

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Examples of natural resources include:

* Forest products

* Soil

* Freshwater and Hydro power and wetlands

* Petrochemicals.  Gas, coal, petroleum and Oil spills

* Oceans

* Sun and solar power

* Air (pollution)

* Wind and wind energy

* Elements: iron, copper, cadmium, sulphur, nickel, gold

* Uranium and Nuclear power

* Living things: fish, animals,  species at risk

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THE POSTER

The poster should ILLUSTRATE A PROBLEM related to human use of the resource. The message you are communicating should be compelling and eye-catching, for example:

  • Scarcity or depletion in the future
  • Disruption of a natural system
  • Pollution and its effects on human beings

Your poster must include the following :

A - TEXT

  1. Title
  2. Summary: what exactly is the problem? (1 paragraph)
  3. Prediction or analysis: what consequences are there if the problem is not solved? (1 paragraph)
  4. Solutions : What needs to be done to improve, reduce  or  solve the problem? Short and /or long term solutions (1 paragraph)

B -IMAGES

Your poster should contain images which help communicate the ideas ( e.g. photographs, graphs, drawings, charts, etc.)


C- A Works Cited sheet of all your sources of information and images. (pasted on back) - Use Citation Machine
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EVALUATION

  • Completeness
  • Organization and neatness
  • Quality of your writing (grammar, spelling, etc).  YOU MUST USE YOUR OWN WORDS!
  • Ideas and analysis
  • Creativity
  • Effort



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