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Your task as a team is to investigate some of the environmental and health issues that have been linked to the manufacture and use of Teflon. Your team will investigate the claims of various groups and will analyze and evaluate the information gathered in order to formulate an opinion as to the truth of these claims. Each team member must report their findings to the group while looking to establish, or break, connections with each others research findings. The experts in your group will then  present their findings to the WHO (World Health Organization) and try to persuade them to either support the bill for passage, or not.

    Your team consists of an EPA agent, a health inspector, a chemist, and a representative of a professional chef's group. Though on opposite sides of the issue, all team members will share all data collected with other members of the team in the name of the open, honest search for the truth. The presentation of your findings will be in a debate format where each member of the team must present their professional opinion with supporting evidence from their research.  There must also be some sort of visual presentation (charts, graphs, PowerPoint, or other visuals) and the individual shall be prepared to answer questions from the opposing side.

    The debate format will be as follows:

  • Each expert witness has five minutes to present their opinion and display any factual evidence that helps support their opinion .

  • The opposing view-point will have two minutes to make a rebuttal.

  • The roles in the debate will switch with the same time allowed for presentation and rebuttal.

  • Each team's view point will be allowed a three minute summation of what they consider to be the most important points from their research.

    Each member of the team must evaluate their research based on the following issues and main questions:

  • What, if any, are the health issues related to this material?

  • What, if any, are the societal issues related to this material?

  • What, if any, are the environmental issues related to this material?   

 

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Author:  Phread Ayres