Challenge students to identify how their personal activities relate to these issues and to assess what changes they can make to address them. Student pairs then present their findings to the class and include them with summaries in their individual course portfolios. Invite students to brainstorm and develop questions that need to be answered to resolve specific environmental or land-use problems.
Students then find and present the data needed to answer the questions.
Organize a debate or discussion, and ask students to consider the problems in terms of whether they can be resolved or whether they are very difficult to resolve. Have students use a variety of media to research careers related to geography. Ask them to determine the geographic skills and knowledge needed for each career. Have students examine mass media for information on issues related to geography. Ask them to determine how these issues might influence them personally.