Materials:	Primary literature about the Bakun Dam (or other projects), and its environmental, economic, social implications; videos.
Activity:	Students take basic information about the project, as provided in lectures, and in primary literature, and write: i) an editorial in a newspaper supportive of the government; ii) an editorial in a dissenting newspaper; ii) a news story that seeks to provide a balanced and/or objective account of the controversy; iv) a human interest story about the controversy, focusing on how the project may affect an actual family in Sarawak; v) a press release by a corporation (foreign or Malaysian), announcing its involvement in the project.
Activity:	Students view video on the Bakun and/or other projects (e.g. The Drowning, The Dammed). Before viewing video, students are given sheets on which to record information from it, including a table with spaces for the categories of information presented in the video (see appendix for example); and space for notes regarding strategies used to communicate its point of view (e.g. through emotion, logic, reference to scientific, economic arguments?)