1. UEQ: How are responsibilities shared within the global commons? How are responsibilities shared within the local commons? Who has the right to use the resources available and in what manner? Lesson Essential Questions: 1. What are some natural resources that are common resources? 2 What are the global commons? Lesson Essential Questions: 1. Are common resources being used wisely? Why or why not? Lesson Essential Questions: 1. What can people do to use common resources most wisely? Lesson Essential Questions:

2. VOCABULARY Vocabulary: Natural resources Common resources Local commons Global commons Vocabulary: Shared responsibility Vocabulary: Community Vocabulary:

3. ... and other sad tales

4. Once upon a time, there was a lovely village

5. With a lovely commons where the sheep grazed...

6. Happily... and produced happy wool. And the village was happy.

7. And happy sheep made great wool.

8. But as more and more sheep joined the commons

9. The Commons was overused.

10. The grass ran out.

11. and tragedy ensued.

12. The sheep suffered.

13. And eventually the sheep produced no wool at all. Brrrr.

14. What did the villagers miss? The villagers should have known that the “Commons” was a common resource. Common resources are always subject to overuse--people (and sheep) are, after all,MAXIMIZERS.

15. So what does this all mean… The commons is resources that are owned in common or shared between or among communities populations. The local commons is a resource that is shared on a local level like an aquifer that is providing water to the town The global commons is a resource that is shared on a global level, like the fish in the sea.

16. Other tragedies of the commons: Ocean fishing

17. Bluefin Tuna Decline 1995 – 2012 (projected)

18. What type of Commons is this? Global Or Local

19. Buffalo nearly became extinct by 1900. What prevented their extinction? More importantly, why have cattle never been threatened with extinction? Other common resource tragedies: Carolina Parakeet- Eastern US’s only parrot Blast fishing in the Tongan Islands The Amazon rainforests

20. In every decision we must consider the impact on the next seven generations -The Iroquois Confederacy

21. What type of Commons is this? Global Or Local

22. Last of the species died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918.

23. What type of Commons is this? Global Or Local

24. Every minute 149 acres of rainforest are cut down.

25. What type of Commons is this? Global Or Local

26. Blast Fishing not only decimates fish populations but destroys the habitats as well.

27. What type of Commons is this? Global Or Local

28. McDonald's at one time was importing 15 million pounds of this type of fish (Hoki). It is now at around 11.5 million.

29. What type of Commons is this? Global Or Local

30. Exit Ticket Put in Warm Up Section of journal. How many gallons of water do you think you use for the following activities? –Clothes Washing –Showering –Bathing –Automatic Dishwashing –Prepared Food –Hand washing