All Eyes on the Pond

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The Sam Houston student council  body has donated a pond for the campus. They have purchased beautiful gold fish to compliment the pond. However, algae has overgrown and taken over the pond.  The fish have to be removed every 3 weeks to clean the water. The beautification committe has has requested your help to deal with the algae problem.

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1. List your personal understanding, ideas or hunches.

 With your team use all the information available in the scenario to list everything that you know about ****. You do not have to conduct any research yet. Just use the information given and write the facts that you already know about ****.

With your team, make a list about what you do not know and would like to learn. List all the questions you will need to answer to solve the problem.  
   

5. List what needs to be done.
"What should we do?" List actions to be taken, e.g., question an expert, conduct research, go to a board meeting about topic. List possible actions. 

6. Develop a problem statement.

You will be responsible for thinking and choosing one of the questions to solve the problem.  A problem statement should come from your analysis of what you know. In one or two sentences, you should be able to describe what it is that your group is trying to solve, produce, respond to, or find out. The problem statement may have to be revised as new information is discovered and brought to bear on the situation.

Use all the resources available (Internet, library, etc) to research about the problem/topic and find a solution.

8. Present Findings

****Determine how students will present findings****

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