Environmental awareness (ea) through history presentations
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This document provides guidelines for a quarter 1 project on environmental awareness through history presentations. Students will work in groups of 2 to create a PowerPoint presentation between 10-15 minutes on a given time period. Each presentation must include a hard copy of the PowerPoint, a poster depicting key events, and sections on the setting, important people/groups, environmental issues, efforts to increase awareness, and lessons that can be learned from that time period. Presentation topics include the Hunting and Gathering era to the current Environmental era from the 1990s onward.
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