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Focus: |
Global Impacts of Deforestation |
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Objective: |
To produce a drama presentation lasting up to 30 minutes, which can be performed in local feeder primary schools |
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Materials: |
> Rainforest Sounds - listen to the rainforest to help your class get into the zone |
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)
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You can use this lesson to work towards an Eco-Schools award |
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