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Environmental Heroes: Anyone Can Be One Worksheet
Part 1

Instructions: Select an organization that works to protect some element of the environment (ocean, land, trees, animals, etc.). Visit the organization’s website, and read the “About Us” section to learn more about the organization. Search to find the following information and record your findings in the chart below:

Essential Questions

The Answers

What is the name of the organization?

When were they founded?

Why were they founded? (This information may be found in an “Our Mission” section of the website.)

What do they actually do?

What are their goals? (This information may be found in an “Our Vision” section of the website.)

Why is their work important?

When you record information from research, write it in your own words. Do not copy the words from your source. It is easy to get a thought in your own words! First, read the paragraph. Next, explain aloud what you have just read without referring to the original text. What you say is what you should record in the chart above.

Part 2

Now that you have completed some research, you have a job! Answer the question: How has your selected organization helped the environment?

Write a five to seven sentence informational paragraph about the important work of the organization you have selected. Use the information you recorded in the chart above to help you write your paragraph to be featured on a webpage entitled “Environmental Heroes: Anyone Can Be One.”

All information should be in your own words. No portion of your paragraph should have words from the source you researched.

Part 3

Create TWO different formats that would be featured with your paragraph on a webpage entitled “Environmental Heroes: Anyone Can Be One.” Information that might be appropriate to incorporate may include (but is not limited to):

What can the average citizen do to help your organization’s cause?
Why is the organization’s cause important?
How has the organization made a difference?
Now, think about how you can communicate this information in different formats. Maps, organizer charts, graphs, pictures, hand drawn illustrations, audio, and video can be effective. Make sure you include the TWO media.

They're committed to supporting science-based fishery management and repairing our oceans, they also want to restore our oceans to former levels of abundance.

What are their goals?

They want to make the oceans a cleaner and environmentally place for people, they support lots of research that may help our oceans before it's too late.

Why is their work important?

It's important because oceans cover about 71% of our world and they also affect many environments especially marine life we should try and preserve the ocean before its destroyed due to pollution.

Part 2:

How has your selected organization helped the environment?

They have achieved hundreds of concrete policy victories for marine life and habitats. Some of the things they have done are stopping bottom trawling in sensitive habitats and protecting sea life from commercial fishing gear.

Write a five to seven-sentence informational paragraph about the important work of the organization you have selected.

Some stuff Oceana has achieved is that they're campaigning for permanent protection for Frenchman Bay and Maine's coastal waters. To add on, they helped passed a new part of the Fisheries Act which states new rules that legally require depleted fish populations to be rebuilt. Additionally, they helped set appropriate catch limits for fishers which helps the suffering of decades of overfishing and excessive uncounted bycatch that environments suffered. To help out with ocean plastic pollution they ended up having Coca-Cola sell a quarter of its product in reusable packaging which would make a huge difference in the pollution which is pilling up in the ocean. Further on, they helped pass an act that will help an endangered shark get a chance at survival due to the new protections passed.

Part 3:

Create TWO different formats that would be featured with your paragraph on a webpage entitled “Environmental Heroes: Anyone Can Be One.”

What can the average citizen do to help your organization’s cause?

An average citizen can help out by demanding plastic-free alternatives, they can vote on ocean issues they can eat sustainable seafood, there is much someone can do to help out and every little thing matters.

How has the organization made a difference?

This organization has made a difference by passing hundreds of policies for marine life and habitats.

Now, think about how you can communicate this information in different formats. Make sure you include the TWO media.

I added a photo and a graph.