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The Snake: A River in Trouble? Module 6 Considering Bias ©2000 JMcKenzie How would it help to organize the list of Snake River Web sites by the following categories? Code Position List of Sites A Keep Dams . B Remove Dams . C Special Interest Sites . D Government Agencies . E Newspaper Accounts . F Newspaper Editorials . G Neutral Information Sources . Open and quickly scan at least ten of the sources below and see into what categories they fall. Snake River Web Pages Recent Articles A Sampling of Salmon Recovery Viewpoints for the Columbia Basin & Oregon Coast Columbia & Snake Rivers Campaign TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE SNAKE RIVER CAMPAIGN U.S. gets 'F' on salmon restoration in Northwest Older Articles Clinton opposes removing four dams on Snake River BUSH BUDGET’S FINE PRINT INCLUDES DEATH WARRANT FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES The Columbia & Snake Rivers Campaign Hydroelectric Information for Columbia and Snake River Projects DJC.COM: Real threat to Snake River fish isn't dams, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce Removing dam good move, but not model for others FOCUS - Save the Salmon--Save the Dams Cracking dams: opposition, intermediate Photo Files, Non-Corps Projects NW Energy Coalition - News and Media: News Articles CNN - Federal report supports removal of 4 Snake dams - December 22, 1999 NOAA News Online (Story 155) National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Regional Office Sciences slowly come to favor dam-breaching Dams The Salmon Crisis National Marine Fisheries Service Releases Draft Biological Opinion To Save Columbia River Basin Salmon Spend several minutes writing and thinking about the following questions: 1) To what extent should teachers provide students with lists of resources from the Net that have been pre-selected? Why? 2) At what age do you think we might begin to teach our students to question the bias of sites they visit? Please do not proceed to the next module until asked to do so. Next module Credits: The drawings, photographs and graphics are by Jamie McKenzie. Some pictures are public domain from the Army Corps of Engineers. © 2000, Jamie McKenzie, all rights reserved. Copyright Policy: These pages may not be duplicated, distributed, redistributed or republished in any manner without express permission.