To
assess your ability to interpret information to find out
why people have different attitudes towards fisheries
resources.
Tasks
1
Each
person in this series of "talking heads" cartoons
has a point of view about fisheries resources.
Identify
(by number) the person who is fishing illegally.
Identify
(by number) the person who tries to stop people fishing
illegally.
2
Describe
in one sentence the following people's attitudes towards
fishing:
Commercial
fishers.
Recreational
fisher.
Traditional
food gatherers (eg, Maori).
3
Write an imaginary dialogue, about 10 lines long, between
a commercial and recreational fisher. Each thinks the
other is responsible for overfishing a local area. Give
some reasons to support what you say.
4
You
are a conservationist and you have discovered that a company
is discharging its waste material into the sea. You are
afraid the waste material might affect fish in the sea.
Write to your local MP describing what is happening and
explaining why you are upset about it.
Level
3: Describes points of view and attempts to explain why
they are held.
Level
4: Describes points of view and explains why they are
held.
Level
5: Describes points of view and explains thoroughly why
they are held.
Marking
schedule
The
schedule for this activity needs to be applied flexibly.
For example, a student who gets question one wrong can
still score a two or more by correctly answering one of
the other questions because by describing or explaining
points of view correctly they are demonstrating that they
can recognise points of view.
