Category Building Consider the list of features on the handout. There are two geographical categories in large font: North Pacific islands and tropical islands. As a group, the class will create bubble maps relating the features listed to each other and to one (or both) of the geographical categories. Some features are meant to be used more than once. As a driving question, can you trace how ideas of environmental consciousness developed from human experiences in specific locations? What events, actors and contemporary intellectual influences shaped ideas of speciation, conservation, erosion, etc.? North Pacific Islands Tropical Islands Russia German Naturalists Local United States of Aleutians Life history traits America Pietism Evolution Britain Cameralism Speciation France Desiccation Fur seals Spain Aridity Forestry Steller’s sea cow Erosion Sea otters Keystone species Aleutian Islands Little Ice Age Mauritius Fur trade Assimilation St. Helena Migration Diversity The Philippines Food source 18th Century New Zealand Kamchadals 19th Century Extinction Upwelling Deforestation Taxonomy Nationalism Global management Utilitarian conservation