Synopsis:  Students explore two evaluation issues that should be considered when determining the degree to which a risk management strategy worked; efficiency and offsetting effects.  Students realize the complexity and challenges of carrying out a cost-benefit analysis.  Students also realize that in spite of good intentions, a risk management strategy may create unintended consequences that must be considered when evaluating its effectiveness.

All students will develop problem-solving, decision-making, and inquiry skills, reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results.

All students will integrate mathematics as a tool for problem-solving in science, and as a means of expressing and / or modeling scientific theories.

All students will learn and apply health promotion concepts and skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.

All students will use health-enhancing personal, interpersonal, and life skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.

All students will develop number sense and will perform standard numerical operations and estimations on all types of numbers in a variety of ways.

All students will use mathematical processes of problem solving, communication, connections, reasoning, representations, and technology to solve problems and communicate mathematical ideas.

All students will speak in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes.

All students will listen actively to information from a variety of sources in a variety of situations.

All students will utilize historical thinking problem solving, and research skills to maximize their understanding of civics, history, geography, and economics.

All students will know, understand and appreciate the values and principles of American Democracy and the rights, responsibilities, and roles of a citizen in the nation and the world.

All students will demonstrate critical life skills in order to be functional members of society.