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NOYS 2008 HOT TOPIC FOR 2008 NATIONAL ONLINE YOUTH SUMMIT!
Environmental Law & Public Policy: From Grassroots to Government

Register by December 3 for this FREE interdisciplinary program for high school students and teachers.

Why should you participate?
The American Bar Association Division for Public Education's National Online Youth Summit offers students the chance to study, research, and analyze an issue, and discuss it online with high school students around the country. And the theme this year, Environmental Law & Public Policy: From Grassroots to Government, reflects on a topic that is of great interest to all people, especially today's youth.

The program will focus on grassroots and government efforts to create a national environmental policy, current environmental laws, and some of the political and social responses to resource management and environmental change across time. Students will analyze key legislation and Supreme Court decisions dealing with the environment, and global warming in particular, as well as the role of the Executive branch in administering environmental laws.

What you can expect?
There is no cost involved for this 12-week program that has been created by the ABA. As a participating teacher you will:

• benefit from the expertise of a community of teachers
  
  
• teach an interdisciplinary curriculum of 14 sequential activities provided by the ABA
  
  
• receive instructional support from the ABA and additional resources to create individualized classroom plans
  
  
• create a project-based learning experience tailored to your
  students, course objectives, and goals.
  

How do students participate?
During the program your students will:

• learn about some of the topic's issues through a literature-based exercise
  
  
• critically evaluate environmental public policies
  
  
• articulate informed opinions about policy options
  
  
• engage in civil discussion by participating in the onlinediscussion
  
  
• pose questions to legal experts
  
  
• create a research-based final project.
  

Visit the National Online Youth Summit Website for more information.

Register today to secure your participation in this FREE program. Participation is limited, so don't wait.

Developed and conducted annually by the ABA Division for Public Education, the National Online Youth Summit is an activity of Youth for Justice, a consortium of national law-related education organizations.

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