Call to OrderIn the space provided on the top of your sheet, draw an image that represents “cooperation”

cooperation, noun

“An act of working together for a common purpose or benefit.”

Today’s ObjectiveStudents will be able to describe the effects of regional cooperation on policy decisions by

Analyzing how regional cooperation occurs on a local and state level

Formulating solutions to regional problems with their groups

Presenting and evaluating their solutions to the class.

Completing an exit ticket

Different Regions of the U.S.A.Different Regions of the World

What’s A Region?A geographic area of nearby cities, states, or countries.

Different Regions of Maryland

Does that make

sense?

What’s Regional Cooperation?When neighboring cities, states, and countries (regions) work together to resolve a common problem.

If everyone looked out for themselves, they wouldn’t get

anywhere…

But, if they communicate and join forces, impossible tasks

become possible

Regional Cooperation: SchoolsAFSIVA wants to start up a girls

basketball team, but Baltimore City has rules that state that a school has to have at least 750 students enrolled in order for them to have a team.

Unfortunately for AFSIVA, we only have about 540 students.

1. Why would there be a requirement to start a

basketball team?

Regional Cooperation: Schools

Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts

Academy also wants to start a female basketball team,

but only has about 320 student

2. Is Vivien T. Thomas going to be able to start up its own girls basketball team? Why or why not?

Regional Cooperation: Schools

AFSIVA wants to start up a girls basketball team, but it’s too small to qualify for its own team accord to the district rules.

The two high schools are close, only about ½ mile away from one another.

That 10 minute walk puts them right in our region

of West Baltimore.

3. Because Vivien T. Thomas is in our region of the city, what might we do to solve our common problem?

We’re here!

Regional Cooperation: Schools

AFSIVA and Vivien T. Thomas (and some others as well) join together to form the Southwestern Athletics team.

Because all of the schools are working together, they’re able to meet their shared goal of forming a basketball team, and they even won the Division II Championship this year!

4. How did cooperation benefit both of our schools?

Regional Cooperation: StatesJust like our schools work together to form a basketball team, states work together in

order to achieve common goals.

5. What are some problems that states would have to work together in order to fix?

Regional Cooperation: StatesStates need to cooperate on hundreds of issues every day. From monitoring interstate highways to recognizing that a couple who is married in Baltimore is still married if they move to New York City.

One way that we’re going to expand on is environmental preservation. States need to work together in order to protect the environment and limit pollution.

6. Why do states have to cooperate in order to protect the environment?

Regional Cooperation: StatesUsually we think

of pollution as the trash that

litters our streets and makes its

way into the Bay.

But air pollution can be just as

destructive and more difficult for

us to notice. 7. What are some causes of air

pollution in Baltimore City?

Regional Cooperation: StatesOne of the problems with air pollution is that it doesn’t just stay in Baltimore, or even Maryland. It travels where ever the wind takes it.

In our case, the wind usually takes it north to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

8. What could these states do in order to protect themselves from air pollution?

Regional Cooperation: StatesIn 2009, Connecticut, Delaware,

Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont entered into an agreement. Each state agreed to regulate and limit the air pollution from its factories to a set amount each year.

9. What should happen to a state that goes over its limit?

10. What should happen to a state that stays under it limit and has room to spare?

TEAMWORK!

Regional Cooperation: StatesPennsylvania chose not to participate in the program because it was afraid that regulating its air pollution would be too costly.

However, other similar programs have already stated in other regions of the U.S.

11. Why would Maryland be more likely to form this agreement with New Jersey instead of California?

CANJ

MD

Take 5 minutes and Respond:

12. How does regional cooperation help states solve problems that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to?

(at least 4 sentence)