Variation to Lesson: Quest in Habitat Village

Variation to Lesson: Quest in Habitat Village

You may select a Quest, such as Animals at Risk of Extinction in Habitat Village, that reflects this type of logging vs. habitat debate after or instead of the above lesson.

Lesson Seven: Back at the OTAK (pages 24-33)

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   Discuss with the students the necessity for a good “reflection” when submitting a Quest to the Council. In doing so, ask them what does it mean to “reflect” on one’s work or writing? Write down on a tablet or poster the individual responses. Provide a comprehensive, understandable phrase for reflection, and then model an example such as the debate done previously.
   

Ask the students to reflect on what basis their class selected the winning panel/team. What were the points the team made that allowed them to be chosen? Were certain points emphasized that made it a good or excellent presentation?

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   Now show the connection between their decision to select that debate team and a good response to a Quest; use this as a good example of reflecting on their own response: certain important points must be made.
   

Lesson Eight: “Is Progress always a Positive Thing?” To be done on the completion of reading the comic book (a variation to Lesson Two)

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   Begin a discussion of the term “progress: what does it mean?” Does “to advance” mean or imply “to improve?” Ask the students for examples of what they see as “progress” in their world today; have someone write those on the board or on a large piece of paper that can be posted on the wall.
   
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   Discuss the positive and negative examples of progress in the Atlantian world. Students might mention examples of Atlantian technology, tree clearing for buildings, and so on. Now, ask your students to connect those events with our own world of today.
   
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   List their examples of what is viewed as progress on a poster board to reference throughout the reading of the comic.
   
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   Add to their list as discussions continue throughout the school year.
   

Lesson Nine: Create Your Own “Next Chapter” to the Quest Atlantis Legend

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   Upon the completion of reading and discussing the comic book, ask your students to create what they think would be an exciting “next chapter”!
   
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   Students must keep the characters and concerns, such as social commitment, in mind as they develop their chapter, but how, where and why events occur would be their challenge.
   
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   Give students a choice as to whether this would be a collaborative or individual effort by the students.
   
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   Allow a specific time length for the chapter development; share the results within a given time period.
   
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   You might wish to access the following site to review how to develop a comic book look, balloons and all.
   
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   Upon your recommendation, the results could also be forwarded to the QA team and be seen within the 3-D space!
   

Variation to Lesson Nine

Students are curious about how a world such as Atlantis could get to such a condition. What happened to bring this world to such a disastrous state? What events might have occurred?

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   Divide your class into two separate groups: One half will write the Prequel to this comic book and one half will write a sequel.
   

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   Now, divide each half of the class into small groups of 2-4 students so that they may work collaboratively on the development of their chapter sections. . Their additions need be only one or two pages in length, but should contain enough information to provide for the readers a sense of
   

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  Prequel: the progression of events leading to Atlantis today.
  
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  Sequel: where Atlantis is heading.
  

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   Students might share their creations with other class members and/or forward their work to the Quest Atlantis Council for display in one of the Worlds. They can submit this for the “What Else Happened” Quest.
   

Glossary of Atlantian Terms

Arch of Wisdom: a precious stone-crystalline structure built by the wise elders of Atlantis that contained, through artificial intelligence, all the wisdom of their civilization.
Atlantis: a planet in a different solar system and hundreds of light years from Earth.

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Co-Questing: to work on the same Quest with another individual.

Gunung Mountains: the oldest mountains in Atlantis; high peaked mountains that tower over the central city Pallides.
Mara: the twenty year - old daughter of the recently deceased Atlantian Emperor Dhutta; now co-rules Atlantis with brother Nakal.
Nakal: the twenty one year – old son of the recently deceased Atlantian Emperor Dhutta; now co-rules Atlantis with sister Mara.
OTAK = an artificial intelligence created by the Council that acts as a portal to receive and house information sent to it by the youth on Earth; it can talk and deliberate with the Council.

Quest: challenges or missions that young people do via the computer in a special QA space online.

Tavkat: a mammal like animal that has pointed ears and resembles a small feline.
The Council: a group of Atlantians that are concerned with the fate of their civilization; they have developed the OTAK, contacted Earth youth, and have created a series of Quests that enable the council to receive information to rebuild their Arch of Wisdom.

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