Rainforest Assessment

Year 9 pupils are currently completing their rainforest assessment where they have to produce a booklet on the rainforest.

Suggested content includes:
• Where are the rainforests?
• What are rainforests and its inhabitants like?
• What is the climate like in the rainforest?
• Why are rainforests shrinking?
• What are the consequences of deforestation?
• How can the rate of deforestation be reduced?/How can rainforests be used sustainably?

The front cover must be in poster format.
It needs to be presented in either A4 or A5 format with at between 3 - 5 sides of text (Font size: no bigger than size 14).

Use websites such as:
Save the Rainforest

The rainforest Foundation
Rainforest Web
The Rainforest Alliance
World Wildlife Fund
Blue Planet Biomes
Enchanted Learning

Amazon Deforestation Accelerates

The destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has accelerated for the first time in four years, Brazilian officials say.
Satellite images show 11,968 sq km of land was cleared in the year to July, nearly 4% higher than the year before.

Amazon Rainforest

Watch this video and consider your 5 senses:

• What would you be able to see in the rainforest?
• What would you be able to hear in the rainforest?
• What would you be able to touch in the rainforest?
• What would you be able to smell in the rainforest?
• What would you be able to taste in the rainforest?