Process
Your instructor/facilitator will assign a stakeholder group that you will represent. You may find yourself taking a position you don't personally agree with. That’s great!! You will learn more if you research and then represent an opinion different from the one you currently have!
Your objective is to determine how your stakeholder group's role affects the sustainability of the soil on your parcel of land. Your group is to come up with recommendations to develop and/or protect the soil. Be sure to look at the Evaluation section before starting so you will know exactly what is expected of you and your Land Use group!
You will need to:
1. Research your role: how do your actions affect the soil sustainability within your parcel of land?
Social goals: To produce food, clothing, shelter and energy to meet the needs of a growing world population.
Economic goals: To ensure prosperity and improve our quality of life.
2. Determine how your actions coincide or conflict with the other stakeholders.
3. Create a graphic organizer showing ways your actions affect the soil (positive or negative).
4. Clearly define what you want and need from the parcel of land.
5. Meet with your team to share what you've learned, and hear what the others have learned.
Your Land Use group will need to:
1. Discuss the impact of each stakeholder's interests on the parcel of land.
2. Work together to come up with a land solution that will allow each stakeholder to continue his/her pursuits while keeping in mind the environmental, social and economic goals.
3. Design a presentation that clearly shows how all stakeholder groups can work together to use your parcel of land.
4. Present your project to the Land Use Commission (class).
Click here to view the five (5) Land Use Groups.