Goals of this assignment: To begin to build research, teamwork, and presentation skills as well as to familiarize you with a wide variety of contemporary issues surrounding sustainability and Planetary Boundaries

Instructions: For this assignment, you will be placed on a team of four to six students. You will then, as a team, be given one of the nine Planetary Boundaries. Between today (9/1) and Friday (9/4), you should find one article per person on your team that discusses this concept/topic . Each student will bring this to Friday's class and upload it to the assignment that is set up for this.

you will also create a short team contract and upload it on Friday to this assignment.

We would also like everyone to read this article.

On Friday (9/4), we will assign each team a single article or set of articles as a further basis for this project. You will then read those article(s) provided and further research the issues and questions raised by your article(s). You should find at least two additional appropriate, scholarly sources PER STUDENT that are relevant to the issues raised in the article. These articles can be used for your individual annotated bibliography assignment.

Once completed, you will build a page on our course website that will represent your work on this topic and help others understand it.

Your team's webpage should do the following things (you can think of these as research questions as well):

Explain the topic, concept, issue, problem, or condition based on your research.
Give some background and context to the topic. Questions you might consider here are:

- What history(s) do we need to know to understand the issue?
- Where geographically might issues related to your topic exist?
- Identify some communities that are most impacted by this issue

Identify which root causes of unsustainability (we will discuss this in class) are represented by this topic/concept and explain how they create barriers to sustainability?
What are the social and environmental impacts that threaten this Planetary Boundary?

You will submit a draft of the webpage (not as the webpage itself but as a document that outlines what will go on the page and any images you might include on 9/11 to this assignment.

Final Webpage and Presentation

You will build your webpage and then submit a link to that page to the assignment for this on Canvas BEFORE CLASS STARTS on Tuesday 9/15.

You will also prepare and deliver a short team presentation in class on 9/15. You can find more information and also upload any presentation materials you create (power point slides, etc) in the assignment and instruction for this here.

Research Tips:

Read articles/sources critically, and with purpose, not necessarily in their entirety.
Find a balance between providing general information and specifics/examples. both are important.
Use facts/evidence to support your claims and main points

Feel free to use any presentation software you’d like (Power Point, Prezi, etc.). Be sure to list your sources on your last slide (and have them in proper APA format). Your team should submit one copy of your presentation on canvas by the due date along with a write up (script) of your presentation.

Timeline:

F 9/4 - Find and read an article about your planetary boundary (before class)

upload short team contract by 11:59pm

T 9/8 - Annotated Bibliography (before class)

F 9/11 - Rough draft of webpage (by the end of class)

T 9/15 - Planetary Boundary webpage (before class)

T 9/15 - Planetary Boundary Virtual Presentation (during class)