• Encourage your students to write, produce, and direct a
special segment for a TV "environmental special" on the effect of
vehicle emissions in your community. They cab contact a local
television station to ask about the sources they get their information
about environmental issues such as yours..
• Role playing. Each of your students takes the role of an
"interested party" (for example, a fish, bird, coal miner, factory
owner, smokestack, fisherman, farmer, stream, lake, tree, or forester)
in a group discussion on air pollution. They can talk about the effects
air pollution has on their character and then present arguments for or
against laws to control air pollution
• Organize a "conference" in which your students present
the reports, projects and so forth of the activities they did. They may
want to invite also their parents and technical experts in your
community. At the conference, both students from Davea and the
collaborating schools at DuPage County should present their own
perspectives, ideas and opinions about the vehicle testing procedures
in Illinois. As a final product of the conference they can write a
brief letter to the governor and the legislature to describe what they
have learned in this project, and to present their suggestions for
possible changes in the regulations.
• Collaborate with them to publish their results,
experiences etc. on the Internet.
