Each student will choose or be assigned a role in the group to help narrow the focus of research. Members of the group will use the links in the Resources section to research in-depth reasons for the disappearance of the salmon. When you have completed your research, write or type a good copy of your notes to share with other members in your group using the
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH WORKSHEET document your findings.Each group should have one of the following:
The Biologist: Your specialty is the fish themselves. You know everything there is to know about what salmon need to survive, including what they eat and where they like to spawn.
An Ecologist: You're the environmental engineer - people come to you when they need to fix a problem, or make their world more hospitable to wildlife. You know just how much work it takes to make a waterway hospitable to fish, and just how sensitive these waterways are to human abuse.
An Economist: Who has a business by Mill Creek? What do they make, and how does it affect the local ecosystem? You're the one to ask. You also know what impact environmental changes have on local businesses.
A Geographer: Mill Creek wanders through most of Kelowna. You know where it begins and where it ends. You know where it's been changed to suit human needs, and you know what it looked like before we got here. You're the one the experts go to when they want to see how easy it is to do something to the creek.
A Historian: What did Mill Creek look like before European settlers arrived in the Okanagan? How did first nations people view this important waterway? What impacts will making changes to the creek have on heritage sites throughout the city? You're the one people visit when they need to know what's happend, and what's going on.