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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 [402KB]

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 [700KB]

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 [35KB] or NNAssignment.rtf [32 KB]

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.