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"At each stage of your life you will make choices that effect the direction your life takes. How do you know if you are making the right decision? This is generally determined by the outcome. Although you cannot know the effects in advance for certain, if you are fully informed, you can be more comfortable that your decision will produce your desired outcome. Successful living requires making choices, setting goals and planning.
Decisions are usually based upon your values and the information you have at the time. In this WebQuest you will explore your values and consider decisions you make at various stages of your life. You will learn how to be informed in order to make the proper decision."
Questions: "What are important decisions at each stage of my life? How can I make the best decisions for my life plan?"
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"Let's say you wanted to figure out something complex. Yeah, more complex than what to wear on Saturday night. Even more than what CDs to bring. We all have to look up from our own lives once in a while to see what's going on around us. In doing Ewe 2, you will use the Case Study approach to figure out where you stand on partial and whole cloning of humans. Also, with this Case Study approach, you'll really be learning two main things: What you think about cloning, but probably more importantly, how you think. This way, you're "learning to learn." As Bob Marley said, "None but ourselves can free our minds.""
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"China is a majestic country with a long and interesting history. If, like most people in the Occidental world, you've never been to this fascinating land, you might want to take a brief tour. Go ahead and walk a few kilometers of The Great Wall or step foot into The Forbidden City or voyage to the Yellow Mountains.
But beyond these tourist stops lives another, more complex, China. Currently, the people of China are experiencing great economic and social upheavals. Such things as the situation in Tibet, Tiananmen Square massacre, and a scandal about treatment of orphans have brought some people to call for boycotts against China.
Being faced with the task of understanding something as complex as a nation, you might want to give up. Sometimes in life you have that choice. But to give up trying to understand the China would mean giving up chances to benefit financially, to help people, to save some of the world's natural and artistic treasures, to protect the safety and security of millions of people, or to enlighten people's lives with greater religious insight. You see, you can't give up."
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"Probably you! That's who's going to foot the bill. At least you will in the future because the United States' national debt stands at over 5 trillion dollars (that's a five with, uh... 12 zeroes after it?). If we don't like the idea that the U.S. Government uses money it doesn't have, why don't we all pitch in right now to clear the debt once and for all? But wait! Some people say we don't need to worry about the debt. What we need is to keep growing the economy. After all, with the Internet and e-commerce, we live in a new era where it's important to boost the global economy. Then the debt will take care of itself.
Do you find all these huge numbers and disagreeing arguments confusing? Are you tempted to just ignore it? Have you got twenty grand in the bank? Thought so. Maybe we better look into this a little more deeply? Maybe even do something about it?"
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"Just up the road from Melbourne, not too far away from the airport and right over the road from Calder Raceway is the Organ Pipes National Park. Housing has been built almost up to the back of the raceway, and it will soon stretch northwards beyond the raceway. There's a nice big clear area of land along the Calder Highway just south of the park, and just the thing for a housing estate. Nice views towards the city and the airport."
"The class will study the Organ Pipes National Park near Melbourne and some associated land use and management issues."
Question: "Do we need the National Park? OR Do we need the land for housing? There are plenty of other Organ Pipe type parks elsewhere. Why preserve this one?"
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"You are the Curator for Indigenous Cultures at the Melbourne Museum. You have been invited to act as a Guest Curator for a traveling exhibition of Native American, Canadian and Alaskan Totem Poles. As a Guest Curator, it will be your job to select the items to be in the exhibition, research the history and significance of the exhibits and prepare a brochure explaining the facts to the Australian audience. You will also be required to analyse one of the exhibits and create an information panel to hang next to that Totem Pole in the Museum, explaining the use of the Design Elements and Principles to the public. Finally, the Director has decided that it would be interesting to have some modern interpretations as part of the exhibition."
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"You have been selected to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, West Africa. Your assignment is in the Community Development Sector and you will be working with a local community in the Brong Ahafo region. Your task is to work with the community to develop a plan to ensure a supply of safe drinking water for the local community. Access to safe drinking water is a common problem for many people around the world."
Question: "How can you, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and your host community successfully make and implement a plan to ensure safe drinking water for the local community?"
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"As the millennium is upon us, the emphasis on content and student learning in art education offers all educators the opportunity to reflect on the nationwide curriculum goals. A key to academic excellence is a student who is well rounded, informed, and prepared for the responsibilities of citizenship. Programs that offer systematic curriculum in the arts need to address art not only as a skill to be taught, but also a way of learning about the world around us."
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