Product Success Criteria:

The presentation will address and highlight the following crucial issues:

• Habitat loss and its impact on biodiversity

• The global impact of deforestation

• The demand driving rainforest destruction: soya, palm oil, timber, beef etc

• What are the alternatives to deforestation? How do we make the trees worth more alive than dead? Look at, for example, eco tourism, selling sustainable forest products, the carbon market etc

• The presentation should be suitable for an audience of 7-11 year olds

• It should stimulate questions from the audience

Organisation:

• Students working as class or year group

• A drama club project

• A student led voluntary and vertically age grouped project

Development:

• Take the presentation to a wider audience

• Adapt material for older or younger audiences

• Film the performance

• Write a critique and improve the production

Teacher's Notes:

Some useful websites:

Drivers - http://www.rainforestsos.org/pages/drivers-of-deforestation

Carbon - http://www.defra.gov.uk/Environment/climatechange/trading/index.htm (emissions trading)

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-big-question-what-is-carbon-trading-and-can-it-save-the-world-from-global-warming-410190.html

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