Learning Outcomes

At the end of this activity, you will be able to
· Demonstrate knowledge of at least one of the main global impacts.
· Explain main concerns about one major global impact

Assessment Criteria
You will
· Prepare a presentation
· Make a presentation about one of the following Land management, Deforestation, Biodiversity, Freshwater, Sea & Coastal Areas, Atmosphere, Contamination.

Task

1. Choose the main environmental global impact that interests you most. Click on the hyperlinks in the Unit 1 text to find out more about your chosen impact. You may find it useful to watch out in the news and papers over the next week or two for any stories that relate to the particular impact.

2. Ask a group of your colleagues or mates at work to come to a presentation you are going to make - 10 minutes in tea or lunch break. Some of these could come from the people you surveyed in activity 1.2. Prepare a poster on a flipchart or make other method of display. Make notes of your main points. Make your presentation.

3. Get somebody to witness you have made the presentation and make a note of the questions you are asked ( including "why are you doing this?"). Collect the witness statement.

4. Read Unit 1 "Environmental Principles". Use the information you have gathered and demonstrate, either in writing or a diagram, how your particular chosen global impact affects natural systems. Show what "persitance" and "cumulative" means and how the balance and order of ecology may be affected.

You may wish to search websites for more information about how important the environment is to business. Go to http://www.tomorrow-web.com/

and click on "In the News"

Click here for Environmental Yellow Pages