The goal of this activity is to understand how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence, storytelling and the call to action) are used to develop an argument for or against a topic. Students develop an environmental case study for presentation and understand how a case study is used as an analysis tool.

Concepts

acid rain, air pollution, engineering, persuasion, stem

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Additional Tags

integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, argument, case study, persuasive writing, recognizing persuasive techniques

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RI.5.8 SL.4.3 W.4.3.e W.5.3.e L.4.6