2.1 Current and Projected Impacts

In this assignment you will be using the Living Planet Report and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as your source for data.  Record your responses in your journal or if you are taking this course for credit record your findings in the Lesson 2 Response form. 

a.   Select and examine 2 data sets from the list of suggestions below  to make an argument  about current and projected impacts based on trends.  In addition to your argument you will answer the questions listed in the Lesson 2 response form. Only include questions/answers to the date sets you chose in your Response Form.  

Living Planet Report

*Note page numbers refer to the document page numbers not the pdf page numbers.

-Figure 3 Humanity's Ecological Footprint (page 10)

-Figure 31 Box 2: Water scarcity in river basins directly impacts people, agriculture and industries (page 55)

-Figure 32 Trends in total Biocapacity, ecological footprint, and world population from 1961 to 2010 (page 56)

-Figure 33: Trends in Ecological Footprint and biocapacity per capita between 1961 and 2010 (page 57)

-NOAA

-Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/)

(analyze the graph Atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory)

b. Now identify which data sets  from the Living Planet Report would be most relevant to your students. Record your responses to the following questions in your journal or if you are taking this course for credit, in the Lesson 2 Response Form. Please submit your completed response form within this assignment  by Sunday, July 19, 2015.  

-What data set(s) did you choose? Why?

-What is meaningful about it?

-How would you introduce this to your students?

-What are the elements of the graph you would use?

-How would you use this graph to discuss human environmental impact?

c. Participate in the forum, "Using data in your classroom."