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The Gl bal You. Adventures on the Bulban River!. Reading Your Map. Before we can start our adventures, let’s learn a little bit about the Bulban River. Pull our your maps and take a look…. Reading Your Map. Where does the Bulban River begin?. Lake Millian. Reading Your Map.
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The Gl bal You Adventures on the Bulban River!
Reading Your Map Before we can start our adventures, let’s learn a little bit about the Bulban River. Pull our your maps and take a look…
Reading Your Map Where does the Bulban River begin? Lake Millian
Reading Your Map How many countries does the Bulban flow through?? 3
Reading Your Map What body of water does the Bulban empty into?? Blue Ocean
Reading Your Map People in Goodlandia get food from fishing. Where is their fishing site? Bulban’s Mouth
Reading Your Map People in Tayloria also get food from fishing. What body of water do their fish come from? Blue Ocean
Reading Your Map Which country has only the Bulban River as a source of water? Atwaterton
Good Job!! It looks like you’re ready to face the rapids ahead of you… Next stop: Multinational Detective!
A week ago, people in Atwaterton found dead fish in the Bulban River. For the next two days, so many fish died that the people could not fish for food…
STOP!! Draw an X through Atwaterton’s fishing industry. G1 T1 T2 A2 A1 T3
A day later, people in northern Tayloria started having terrible stomach cramps…
STOP!! Draw an X through the northern two water collection sites in Tayloria. G1 T1 T2 A2 A1 T3
The next day, people in Goodlandia found some dead fish near the mouth of the Bulban River. They could have kept fishing, but they stopped just to be safe.
STOP!! Draw an X through the fishing site in Goodlandia. G1 T1 T2 A2 A1 T3
That night, the news reported that two days before the trouble in Atwaterton, Tayloria had so many dead fish that it had to stop fishing and such bad drinking water that it had to stop collecting out of the river.
STOP!! Draw an X through all of Tayloria’s fishing and water collection sites. G1 T1 T2 A2 A1 T3
Not only that, but the T3 factory had shut down after a visit from the Safety Department!!
STOP!! Circle the T3 factory site in Tayloria. G1 T1 T2 A2 A1 T3
Detective Report Your job now is to write your Detective Report. Using all the information you’ve gathered on your map, make a statement about what probably caused problems in all three countries… G1 T1 T2 A2 A1 T3
An Electric Situation Goodlandia wants to generate electricity. It decides to build a dam across the river next to Cooperville. Fish that live in the ocean need to get back up the river to Lake Millian in order to reproduce. There is no way for the fish to get upstream past the dam. Also, once the dam is built, the area behind it will be flooded for miles and will become a lake half the size of Lake Millian.
1. Draw in the dam next to Cooperville 2. Circle the fishing site closest to Lake Millian 3. Draw and shade in where the new lake would be G1 T1 T2 A2 A1 T3
Now, fill in the “Country Affected” chart for this scenario…
We Want Water Atwaterton and Goodlandia decide they want to use more water from the Bulban River. They sign a treaty agreeing to cooperate in building a new canal. The canal will bring water from the Bulban River to Allisontownand then to Goodlandia’s industry center. From there, the canal will empty into the ocean. This canal will take about half of the water out of the Bulban R.
1. Draw a canal from the Bulban River to Allisontown. 2. Draw the canal from Allisontwon to the G1 factory. 2. Draw the canal from G1 to the Blue Ocean. G1 T1 T2 A2 A1 T3
Now, fill in the “Country Affected” chart for this scenario…
No More Minnows People of Jefferson city love to go boating on the Bulban River on the weekends. However, the people don’t like it when seaweed growing in the river gets wrapped around their propellers. Tayloria decides to put herbicide in the river to kill the seaweed. This same seaweed is home to the tiny Bulban Minnow, that provides food for the larger fish in the river. Without the seaweed, the minnows will die.
1. Circle a long section of the river near Jefferson City. 2. Draw a rectangle around all the fishing sites on the Bulban River. G1 T1 T2 A2 A1 T3
Now, fill in the “Country Affected” chart for this scenario…
GREAT JOB!! You navigated the waters of the Bulban River successfully! Keep up the good work and keep thinking about how an event at one place may affect people far away…