Teaching Tools
In support of the use of edu.NutrientNet.org for classroom exercises, we provide here three tools.
A Guide to Market-Based Approaches to Water Quality.
Download: NNGuide.pdf
This 25 page guide was written to introduce students to water quality problems, how these problems have been addressed in the United States,
and the potential for using water-quality markets. The guide assumes no prior understanding of economics or water quality problems.
PowerPoint Presentation.
Download: NutrientNet_Intro.ppt
This PowerPoint presentation can be used to explain to your class the overall flow of NutrientNet. The presentation provides step-by-step instructions on how step-by-step instructions on how to use edu.NutrientNet.org.
NutrientNet Assignment.
Download: NNAssignment.doc or NNAssignment.rtf
These questions can be used and modified to provide a classroom exercise that will walk students through the NutrientNet experience and help them to think about
the decisions that are made. It also provides an easy way to generate a quantifiable measure of student performance and understanding. The file is available in
MS Word and Rich Text formats. If a class participates in multiple trading periods, it is recommended
that some, though not all of the questions be answered for each period.