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The TIGed Activities Database is a resource by teachers, for teachers. Using the database, you can find new methods to infuse TakingITGlobal into your teaching in ways that meet your local curriculum standards. TIG staff, partners, and educators from around the world have developed our activities and lesson plans and you can contribute too!
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Adding to: Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

In this video Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments -- through this video one learns about the necessary components of a biosphere and the need to constantly keep the millions of elements within it in balance, mirorring the situation occuring in Biosphere 1 (Earth)!

Jane goes on to disscuss the ways in which man-made biospheres can be beneficial to us in the future and introducdes a number of new technologies that were developed in Biosphere 2 that will help us to live in more hostile environments.  



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