Simulation

Simulation

Procedures for Using the Simulation

Introductory Activity

Developing a Definition/Freewrite

Citing Electronic Sources MLA Style

Research Summaries

Pre-Interview Conference Sheet

Post-Interview Conference Sheet

Student Worksheet to Write the Debate / Discussion Position Notes

Final Evaluation of Antarctica: 90 Degrees South

Fact-Finding Teams

Collaboration

Collaboration

You now have all of the facts you need to make some decisions about whether we can inhabit Antarctica and how we can do it. With your group, develop a plan for:

  • feeding people and determining the impact humans will have on the food chain;
  • finding energy sources;
  • determining the types of structures that could be built to house people;
  • and writing the laws necessary to maintain order.

View the Antarctica: 90 Degrees South video titled Do I Need a Passport? on habitation.

Guided Questions

Treaties

  • Who owns Antarctica?
  • Are there treaties in place for settlement of Antarctica?
  • What do you think is the most important element of any treaty? Can a treaty work if there is no enforcing body?

Resources
Antartica
http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/treaties/ant.asp

The Antarctica Treaty
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/antarc.htm

Antarctica Treaties Act, 1996 This is the actual treaty that was put into place in 1996.
http://www.gov.za/gazette/acts/1996/a60-96.htm

Antarctica Treaties
http://www.state.gov/g/oes/ocns/9570.htm

Antarctica II
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/
newton/AntarcticII.html

Antarctica A hotlist of treaties
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/antarctica.html

Marine Pollution

Marine Pollution One
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_pollution1.html

Index of Ocean Regulations
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/regs/

British Antarctic Survey

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/About_BAS/Cambridge/Divisions?EID/
Environment/Prevention_of_marine_pollution.html

Environmental Impact

Human Impact
http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/human/

Human Interaction with Antarctica
http://auexplorer.tripod.com/antarctica3.html

Australian Antarctic Division
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?contnet=dynamic&title=Human+
impacts+ in+Antarctica&casic=3436&docid=2620&type=1&children=

Waste Management

  • How will we deal with waste management?

    Resources
    Artic Explorers Waste Management

    http://tea.rice.edu/kolb/kolbletters_dec_22.html

Australian Antarctic Division Waste Management
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?content=dynamic&title=
Waste&casid= 214&docid=1&type=3&children=3416,3417,3418,755,3419

Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/esd/index.html

South Pole Waste Segregation Plan
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/background/NSF/waste.html

Protected Areas

  • How can we manage protected areas?

    Resources
    Best Practice in Park Management

    http://www.ea.gov.au/parks/best-practice/index.html

Earth Share
http://www.earthshare.org

Host Position Description, 2003
http://www.nsgo.seagrant.org/Knauss/2003/pd2003/NSF_PolarProgram.pdf

Managing Antarctica, CCAMLR and the Antarctica Treaty
http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/
BB006BA85069AE4E80256C5A002ACC03

Food Production

  • How will we produce food for the people living in Antarctica?

    Resources
    The Ecosystem and Food Web of the Antaractic Peninsula

    http://www.literacynet.org/polar/pop/html/project-ecosystem.html

Antarctic Life Forms--The Food Chain, "Who eats whom?"
http://polarmistexp.com/polarmist_web/antarctica/life_foodchain.html

Antarctica The Ice is Moving
http://www.bluedolphin.org/Antarctica.html

Housing

Antarctica
http://challenge.education.utep.edu/webprojects/DesertProject/
text%20files/antarctica.html

Antarctica
http://www.concierge.com/antarctica

Building up, at the bottom
http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2000/10/26/fp11s1-csm.shtml

Transportation

Antarctica Transportation 2001
http://workmall.com/wfb2001/antarctica/antarctica_transportation.html

Transportation in Antarctica
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~mmcooper/classes/transport.html

Laws

  • What laws will be needed to protect the environment?

  • What laws will be needed to provide a save environment for the people?

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