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= Senatorial Podcast on an Environmental Issue =

__**Groups of 3 or 4 Students**__
**1.You are an elected Senator of your state and you must vote for or against an environmental issue.** Your press conference speech will be recorded in a podcast using audacity. Your group will then field at least 3 questions from the class on that issue. Choose a topic from the list below and study the grading rubric. 2. You are having a press conference to give your decision and tell your constituents why you are going to vote for or against the environmental issue for our country.
 * ** (Each student has their own wiki page to work on simultaneously.) **
 * ** Each group will pick their environmental issue and make their own wikispace with 4 pages similar to what is on the left in the navigation. each group will link their wikispace to the wikispace links page at the bottom of the navigation. **
 * one in your group will tell us what the environmental issue is. e.g. What is animal testing? Who is doing it? Why are they doing it?
 * one of your group will have the role of researching and listing all the arguments against the issue.
 * one of your group will have the role of researching and listing all the arguments for the issue.
 * one of you will be the senator who will record the groups composed speech and one of you will give the introduction and tell us why the senator chose that location for his speech and press conference.

3. Analyse, synthesize and evaluate your findings. **//Work together//** with your group and compose your speech. Will it be **for** or **against? You must come to a consensus. As a senator, you must vote on the issue in congress, and your constituents want to know why you are going to vote for or against the issue at the Press Conference.** 4. After your speech is edited and polished, record your speech using the **Audacity** software to make your podcast or mp3 recording. You will decide who in your group will be the secretary to do the typing and whose voice(s) will be recorded. 5. You will compose your speech on your groups "Decision Page" or on a google doc and then insert the speech on the "Decision Page"and upload the recording. Your podcast will be at leat two minutes long. In the podcast one of the members of your group should introduce the senator to the press corpse and the rest of the podcast is your senatorial speech that your group composed.

=**Podcast Rubric for Environmental Issues**=

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