Is Deforestation really a problem?Your task for the next few weeks is to present a report which gives your answer to this question.
Your report will be presented to the class in week 9. Its format will need to be negotiated. You may work by yourself, with a partner or collaborate with others but still present an individual report.
As you research, post some interesting facts or links you have discovered onto this page as a comment.
Plan:
Week 6:
Explore websites and note down interesting information and ideas that you might like to explore further.
Write your own research focus questions. (Remember to Ask the What? How? When? Where? Why? questions).
Explore things like Biodiversity, Extinction, Consequences, Impacts, Conservation, Management
Some websites to get you started:
- Rain-tree
- Rainforest medicine
- Rainforest
- Deforestation
- Deforestation for Kids
- Mongabay site
- Encyclopedia.kids.Deforestation
Week 7:
Carry out your investigations. (remember to take notes and keep a record of sources for your bibliography)
Plan how you will present your report and what you will include to make it quality. (Remember to use the skills you have to make it a quality presentation. (neatly organised set-out and text, maps, graphs, diagrams, illustrations etc.)
Week 8:
Prepare your presentation.
Week 9:
Finishing touches and presentations.
In that report
At least 20% of the worlds oxygen is produced in the Amazon rainforest.
ReplyDeleteFrom Isaac. :)
Thanks for that good info Isaac.
DeleteJess.P :)
Did you know?
ReplyDeleteVincristine, a chemical coming from a plant called Periwinkle, can cure or increase the survival rate of cancer.
From Paolo
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DeleteInteresting Fact:
ReplyDeleteDid you know rainforests cover 6-7% of the earths surface.
Read More At http://kids.mongabay.com/lesson_plans/lisa_algee/deforestation.html
From Elijah
One acres or one and a half acres are gone by Jeremy
ReplyDeleteHi 6SL
ReplyDeleteSomething really interesting (and worrying) I found out is that within the next quarter of a century there could be a loss of 28,000 species of unique animals!.
From Anthony G "bringing you the latest on deforestation"
To Anthony,
DeleteThat was great help to my work.
THANKYOU
From Tiarhn
Hi 6SL,
ReplyDeleteDid you know that more than 120 plant species are being cut down so they can make medicine and drugs? (They also make illegal drugs)
From Rahul
The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres. The Amazon covers, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru.
ReplyDeleteHi people of the internet land
ReplyDeleteI have done some research on the rain forest the links are above here is what I found out. I found out that 14% of the worlds land used to be covered by forest now there is only 6% and we are losing more and more rainforest every second that makes me feel very sad but the research i'm doing may prove it ok in some instances.
Jess.P
We are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That adds up to 50,000 species a year.
ReplyDeleteBy Isaac
Did you know?
ReplyDeleteAbout half of the worlds tropical rainforests have been wiped out.
Read more at http://www.livescience.com/27692-deforestation.html
From Paolo
HI 6SL,
ReplyDeleteDid you know that 18% of the amazon rainforest has already been removed.
From Jake :-) giving you all the rainforest facts.
Did you know?
ReplyDeleteRosy periwinkle provides 99% chance of remission in lymphocytic leukaemia
Read more at:
http://www.adventure-life.com/articles/rainforest-medicine-78
By Ian
This website shows the rate of deforestation in the Amazon of 5 years.
ReplyDeletehttp://giphy.com/gifs/amazon-deforestation-ekb69d2XpdWSY
From Isaac
hi 6sl
ReplyDeleteyearly in Europe, a tropical forest is cut down the size of Great Britain.
from Logan
Did you know?
ReplyDeletetwo species of potatoes have sticky substances, killing insects on contact.
Read more at:
http://www.adventure-life.com/articles/rainforest-medicine-78
By Ian
Hey Everybody,
ReplyDeleteHere's a fact on deforestation, Chunks of rainforests the size of Panama ( 75 416 Kilometres Square!) Are destroyed each year.
From Noah.C
Hi 6sl
ReplyDeleteDid you know that Forests cover 30% of the earth’s land.
from Logan
Hi teachers the interesting facts that I've found out today are, 1/5 of the rainforest has been destroyed so far. The second interesting fact that I've learned today is that 20 000 square miles is destroyed each year.
ReplyDeleteHI people of the internet land
ReplyDeleteI just found out something interesting (and worrying) about the Amazon.
Every 30 seconds . . we lose an area the size of two small football fields.
Every minute . . we lose an area 20 times the size of the Pentagon.
Every hour . . . we lose an area 64 times larger than the New Orleans Superdome.
Every day . . . we lose an area as big as all five boroughs of New York City.
Every week . . . we lose an area twice the size of Rhode Island.
Every month . . .we lose an area the size of Belize.
Every year . . . we lose an area more than twice the size of Florida.
http://www.savetherainforest.org/savetherainforest_007.htm
Hi 6sl
ReplyDeleteThese are the facts I have learnt.
Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a tiny 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be removed in less than 40 years.
One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second.
Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or threatened over the next 25 years due to rainforest deforestation.
We are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That adds up to 50,000 species a year.
As the rainforest species disappear, so do many cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources.
Most rainforests are cleared by chainsaws, bulldozers and fires for its timber value and then are followed by farming and ranching operations.
The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres. The Amazon covers, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru.
The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen.
At least 3000 fruits are found in the rainforests; of these only 200 are now in use in the Western World. The Indians of the rainforest use over 2,000.
Deforestation is not good for the animals and plants that live there because a lot of medicines are made out of tropical Amazonian plants. There are also a lot of rare tropical endangered animals in the amazon, so if they cut down the trees they will have no habitat to live in.
From Isaac