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Performance Task:
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Darrel works for an international travel
agency. His specific job is to
research interesting places for nature expeditions and to store that
information in a computer so it can be used to prepare a travel brochure. Your task is to identify
and carefully research a selected biome to entice a traveler to visit it. A
biome is a complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and
animal species. Identify a specific
place in the biome and find information about it that will entice a
traveler to visit it. This
information should include the following aspects of your specific place:
- plants and animals present
- climate
- land forms
- places of interest
- specific features (e.g.,
permafrost is a specific feature of a tundra)
Find interesting pictures that might also be included in the brochure. Write two or three paragraphs giving a
general description of the biome, encouraging a perspective reader to visit
the place you identified. Put all
your information into a computer and scan appropriate pictures which will
enable one of Darrel's co-workers to prepare the travel brochure.
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Knowledge / Skills:
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Understand ecology as the study of the
interactions and relationships of organisms with their living and nonliving
environments (i.e., the ecosystem, communities, and populations). (s13)
Gather information from a variety of sources,
including electronic sources, and summarize, analyze, and evaluate its use
for a report. (ela3)
Understand and produce a variety of informative
formats such as business letters, memos, reports, news articles, brochures,
proposals and critiques. (ela22)
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