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Design team and ideas for Environment Awareness area of the Student Congress
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MOST URGENT in preparation for next meeting and building

Students need to complete their design and planning on their team's respective wiki pages. They need to: 1. List the members of their team - QA usernames only 2. Take a screen capture of their preferred space 3. Note coordinates for the area they want 4. Make a statement for Enkar of the aspects they want removed 5. Add design descriptions, sketches and plans

As soon as we see that these plans are in places students will be offered building rights inworld.


 * Team Leaders:** hees15karthik
 * Team Members:** hees1jacob, hees7jason, hees3laura, hees12jenna, hees13ethan, GusNSP
 * Screen Captures:**


 * Screen Captures:**





Important: Lesson learned: If we don't take care of the Earth we will not have a clean place to live. Animals, people, plants could die if we don't take care of the environment. This will cause a gap in the food chains - this will lead to death to humanity, some populations would increase while other populations will decrease or die out. Imbalance in the ecosystem is going to cause distruction to life in the ecosystem.

Global warming - ice caps melt, ice decrease, sea level increases, water level rises and floods - causes massive damage. Animals who live in North Pole will not have anywhere to live. Humid and hotter temperatures - more storms, hurricanes, tornadoes.
 * I should take care of the environment more.
 * I shouldn't pollute
 * Recycle
 * Do whatever I can to make the Earth a better place.

__**Team Environment please think about the following headings and add your this aerg is as boughts:**__
 * Backstory:**
 * Question:** How does climate change affect life on the Earth?

On an ocean in the Arctic. Polar bear with her cub on one iceburg, avatar lands on another Ship in the background - research ship.
 * Setting Ideas:**


 * Metaphors to consider: The ice berge is as big as a babypool. The polar ice caps are as hot as an oven.**

Objective: For the visitor to learn about sources of energy that are environmentally friendly. Interacting with the polarVisiting and exploring reasons for climate temperature increases - research ship for collection of data, island that shows use of power and emissions it creates, visiting research lab that is conducting experiments on various types of power and emissions. Conducting experiments Using facts given by scientists/researchers Decision makers about which types of power we should use to protect the environment
 * Potential role for visiting avatars:**

Polar bear and her cubs are about to starve or drown if we don't do something.
 * Conflict or something that throws the visitor off balance:**

Visit polar bear Visiting an island to learn about emissions and how they affect the air quality and temperature. - look at village Collecting information from researchers on the ship. Conducting experiments in a research lab on alternate sources of energy. Investigating the use of power and various emissions that it creates.
 * Story experiences:**

Go back to the ecologist on the ship to give him/her information to help save the polar bear. To save the polar bear - visitors can show the polar bear a new hunting area that has not been affected by global warming or is bigger because global warming has been slowed down.
 * Endings:**


 * Other ideas:**


 * NOTE: Mrs. McGrath, the changed version is on the questatlantisblog.org wiki. It is the first topic. Last subject. My class liked that. Would could that be used? We could transfer the other dialouge.**


 * Script ideas from our first meeting:**

Visitors enter the world and stand on an iceberg facing a mother polar bear and her cub on a small melting iceberg. Mother polar bear says "Help, this iceberg is melting and it is the only one for miles. I used to hunt on the ice in this area, but there is very little ice left. We are very tired and hungy. Can you help us find some food?" Visitor answers "I don't know how to help you find food, but I see a ship in the distance. I will go and ask for help."

Visitor goes to the ship and finds an ecologist, other researchers, maps, a lab, and research equipment.

The head ecologist says" In 2004 we found 6 polar bears that drowned in this area. We are worried as there are fewer polar bears in this area each year but we don't know where they are going. We are all tired because we have been studying this area for a long time, we would like some help if you have the time."

Visitor: "Sure what can I do?"

Ecologist "Go to the research notes and see if you can find anything that can help you." Research notes will show that
 * the Earth's temperature is rising. Link to the internet for visitors to find evidence of rising temperatures.
 * the Earth is absorbing more sunlight which is causing the Earth to heat up.
 * Air pollution is causing the Earth to heat up.
 * Polar bears are becoming extinct because of the rising temperatures.

Then they have to go to other researcher and find out more information. After they are done with that, they go back to the main reseatcher. She gives the Avatar a test. When that is done, you have to Return to the Ecologist and explain your findings. Ecologist: "Very interesting. We are out in the ocean in the Artic and there are no people hear to pollute. We don't understand how this is happening. Can you go and find out what is causing the problem?'

Visitor gets on a boat and teleports to an island. The boat lands at a dock area - factories line the coast. Factories are omitting a lot of emissions.

Roads led away from the dock area - there are big cars, trucks, buses, motorcylces, bikes, scooters, etc. on the road.

The road leads to a small village with houses, school, office complex, shopping mall, etc that use various types of electricty sources - coal burning, and nuclear. There is a meter at each house that shows how many emissions each house produces.

Another road leads to a research center - a greeter explains the information and tasks that are in the research center. The research center is investigating alternate sources of energy - solar, turbine (similar to one used in the gulf stream), wind, hydroelectricity. Small scale models are in the research center - visitors have to determine which alternate energy sources would help to slow the heating of the Earth. Visitors collect evidence and information along the way - write a report.

When evidence is collected and report is written visitors return to the ship to talk with the Ecologist. Visitors write an action plan for lowering emissions and submit it to the ecologist The visitor explains how the action plan will help the polar bear. The ecologist gives the visitor an Environmental Awareness hat.

Plan for leadership? What can we provide opportunities for students to impact worldwide decisions about protecting the environment. Voice to communicate the concerns to the real world - outside the classroom, within the school environments.
 * Feedback:**

Bron - to give to hees13ethan and hees12jenna access to playland. Enkar - can you create a teleport to the various commitment areas at the beginning area of the student congress. Enkar- can you please give us permission to build cd_sail3c.rwx out further in the water for part of what were doing.
 * Questions for QA**