Tragedy of the Commons
Driving Question
What free resources around us are abused, overused or collapsing?
How can we restore these resources to a better state?
Big Idea
Planet Earth is a finite space ship. We must treat it with care. Students research overused, abused and collapsing public local resources, then create and present solutions to a rich audience.
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Students Will Learn
This structured multi-week PBL plan has students find issues, research, interview and conduct possible fieldwork. Students will develop not only math modeling skills but also many "soft skills" required for 21st Century careers: working collaboratively in teams, analyzing incompletely specified problems, keeping a schedule, interviewing, reporting to an authentic audience.
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Teacher will start on this Project-based Learning lesson by teaching the MIT BLOSSOMS video lesson, Tragedy of the Commons, a metaphor for the problems to be studied by the students.
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