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Biome Webquest

Biome Webquest. Biome Journalism. You and your colleagues at the Vibrant Planet, a multimedia broadcast consortium, have been selected for a news assignment that will take you around the world. So put on your traveling shoes, pack your suitcase, and grab your camera.

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Biome Webquest

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  1. Biome Webquest

  2. Biome Journalism You and your colleagues at the Vibrant Planet, a multimedia broadcast consortium, have been selected for a news assignment that will take you around the world. So put on your traveling shoes, pack your suitcase, and grab your camera. The Vibrant Planet has posted lagging sales. It wants to boost newspaper readership, TV viewing, and sales of cds and videos by generating media releases on the effect of global warming and human intervention on various biomes of the world.

  3. Your group has been hired to research this pressing matter, predict the future of our planet and generate a multimedia presentation. Your team has been selected because each of you has special talents. Collectively, you know how to sell the story with words, pictures, and sound. You have three weeks to meet your deadline

  4. Your Task • Working as a group, develop an in depth presentation on the status of your biome • You may create newsletters, videos, or other animated presentation. • Your presentations will be reviewed by our Partners in Education (in other words, your peers).

  5. PROCESS • Each team will be assigned a biome by the teacher. • It is the team's job to research the biomes and gather facts and information about that biome. • Each member of the team will become an expert in a particular aspect of the biome. • Team members will save their information to their jump drives and the server. They will email their daily files to their team members.

  6. Team Roles Ecologist: Animal/Plant Expert . Prey-predator relationships, food webs. Biosphere specialist: Biotic, abiotic and limiting factors Meteorologist/Geographer: Weather, Map and Area Expert Sociologist: Man’s Impact

  7. PROCESS • Discuss with your team which role each of you will assume. • Remember that you are all responsible for learning about the biome, but your role reflects an area of particular focus that you will research.

  8. Tropical Forest Savanna Desert Polar & Mountain Ice Chaparral Temperate Grassland Temperate Deciduous Forest Coniferous Forest Tundra (Arctic & Alpine) Freshwater & Marine Biomes

  9. Product • As a group the team will create a newsletter, video or multimedia product that showcases the biotic and abiotic interactions within their biome, the impact of mankind on the biomes, and an assessment of the future viability of ecosystems within the biome. • Use the rubric to help prepare your presentation.

  10. SOME QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER: What part of the world will you be traveling to as an on-the-spot reporter? What kinds of plants and animals live in this biome? What factors effect their survival? What’s for dinner? Describe the food web. What adaptations have organisms made to live in this biome? What's the weather like? How has man effected the viability of the ecosystems in this biome?

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