ACTIVITY - TRAGEDY OF COMMONS GAME
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Tragedy of Commons Game - COSEE Coastal Trends 
Lesson PlanSummary
Students play the role of fishermen to demonstrate how overfishing can occur.
Concept: Humans affect the ocean
Humans affect the ocean and therefore must protect it.
Humans affect the ocean and therefore must protect it.
National Science Education Standards
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K-12 Unifying Concepts and Processes
Evidence, models, and explanation
9-12 A Science as Inquiry
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
9-12 C Life Science
Matter, energy, and organization in living systems
Behavior of organisms
9-12 F Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Personal and community health
Population growth
Natural Resources
Ocean Literacy Essential Principles (PDF booklet): 6. The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected (concepts e, g)
Life on an Ocean Planet text reference (book link): Chapter 17 Marine Resources 17:33-48
Chapter 18 Human Pollution and the Health of the Ocean 18:2-10
Chapter 19 Management, Research, and the Future of an Ocean Planet 19:4-6
(click a standard to show activities that meet it)
K-12 Unifying Concepts and Processes
Evidence, models, and explanation
9-12 A Science as Inquiry
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
9-12 C Life Science
Matter, energy, and organization in living systems
Behavior of organisms
9-12 F Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
Personal and community health
Population growth
Natural Resources
Ocean Literacy Essential Principles (PDF booklet): 6. The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected (concepts e, g)
Life on an Ocean Planet text reference (book link): Chapter 17 Marine Resources 17:33-48
Chapter 18 Human Pollution and the Health of the Ocean 18:2-10
Chapter 19 Management, Research, and the Future of an Ocean Planet 19:4-6
45 mins
