what is a biome?
What: What are biomes?
Why: To understand how biomes work and why they are important
How: Conduct your own biome inquiry
Why: To understand how biomes work and why they are important
How: Conduct your own biome inquiry
BIOMES PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS:
| biomes_backpack.docx |
| biome_projects_–_are_you_ready.docx |
Extinction- the facts. The importance of biodiversity
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Task: write a 1-2 page letter from you in future explaining how your life is different in 2050 based on the changes we have faced
Consider:
•If you an optimist or a pessimist?
•Food- where from and are there any foods we now can’t get?
•What major events have happened?
•What species have been lost or saved? What impacts has this had?
•How are LICs coping with the change?
•Have there been any positive impacts? What led to this?
•Have the SDGs been met? Has this had any impact?
Consider:
•If you an optimist or a pessimist?
•Food- where from and are there any foods we now can’t get?
•What major events have happened?
•What species have been lost or saved? What impacts has this had?
•How are LICs coping with the change?
•Have there been any positive impacts? What led to this?
•Have the SDGs been met? Has this had any impact?
Characteristics of the rainforest
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF TROPICAL RAINFORESTS?
Using the PPT below, information from the textbook and the video we will watch in class create a profile of the tropical rainforest. You must include:
- Climatic conditions- create and analyze climate graph
-The relationship in the ecosystem of natural vegetation wildlife and climate- animal and plant adaptions
Drawing a climate graph for the Tropical Rainforest
Using the PPT below, information from the textbook and the video we will watch in class create a profile of the tropical rainforest. You must include:
- Climatic conditions- create and analyze climate graph
-The relationship in the ecosystem of natural vegetation wildlife and climate- animal and plant adaptions
Drawing a climate graph for the Tropical Rainforest
| characterisitcs_of_the_trf.pptx |
| rainforest_characteristics.pptx |
| animal_adaptions.pptx |
| climate_graph_tropical_rainforest.ppt |
| climate_graphs_example_and_data.pdf |
| Animal adaptions |
| igcse_planet_earth_jungles.pdf |
Indigenous people of the rainforest
WHO ARE THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE RAINFOREST?
•What: The lifestyles of the indigenous people of the rainforest.
•Why: So that we can appreciate the lives of groups of people in different parts of the world – including the ways in which their lives are similar and different to our own.
•How: by looking at case study of examples of different tribal groups and by investigating a rainforest tribal group of your own.
•What: The lifestyles of the indigenous people of the rainforest.
•Why: So that we can appreciate the lives of groups of people in different parts of the world – including the ways in which their lives are similar and different to our own.
•How: by looking at case study of examples of different tribal groups and by investigating a rainforest tribal group of your own.
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“Tribal people of the rainforest lead a life that is much worse than ours. They don’t have electricity and all the goods that go with them. They don’t have cars, heated houses, Facebook, Internet, shops and banks”. To what extent do agree with this statement. (Target 100 words)
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WHO KILLED CHICO MENDES? MURDER MYSTERY
| chico_mendes_activtiy_sheet.docx |
| print_these_off_-_evidence_board_and_suspect_list.pptx |
The value of tropical rainforests
| the_value_of_the_rainforest.docx |
Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest
•What: The causes and consequences of deforestation
•Why: So that we can consider whether the benefits of deforestation outweigh the costs
•How: Debate: Deforestation is not always a bad thing Discuss.
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Sustainable management of the rainforest
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Task: Dragon's Den
You have been given a large piece of rainforest land to develop. What will your group do?
Success criteria:
•Explain what your industry/ development is
•What would you do with the land
•What benefit swill occur– categorise as economic,environmental, social
•How will your development be sustainable- short term and long term impacts, global and local impacts
•Will your development link to any of the sustainable development goals?
•How will it make money? How much (try to find out some information online)?
•Presentation should be approx. 5 minutes long
•Everyone in your group should be involved
You have been given a large piece of rainforest land to develop. What will your group do?
Success criteria:
•Explain what your industry/ development is
•What would you do with the land
•What benefit swill occur– categorise as economic,environmental, social
•How will your development be sustainable- short term and long term impacts, global and local impacts
•Will your development link to any of the sustainable development goals?
•How will it make money? How much (try to find out some information online)?
•Presentation should be approx. 5 minutes long
•Everyone in your group should be involved
Assessment :
You may like to include the following in your assessment:
•A heading for your article, communicating what the issue is about
•Outline the reasons why rainforests are so valuable (environmentally, economically and socially)
•Outline what the rainforest is used for (including sustainable and unsustainable activities
•Explain what the consequences of deforestation are. Try to consider consequences at the local, national and international level. You could also consider social, economic and environmental consequences.
•What are the different viewpoints about the issue e.g. tribal groups, conservation groups (e.g. Greenpeace), global governments, TNCs (transnational companies)?
•What are the ways in which rainforests could be managed more sustainably for the future?
•Conclude by summarising your estimations for the future of the world’s rainforests.
Watch the video titled “Exploiting the Forest” from the Amazonia Documentary Series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RawJ875KCco(starts after 19 mins)
Some other useful sites for information concerning the consequences of deforestation:
•http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html
•https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation/
•http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Deforestation-Facts-for-Kids
•http://www.activewild.com/what-is-deforestation-for-kids-information-and-facts/
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/deforestation-human-costs
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/education/amazon/