Lesson 1
Rainforests and You
For teachers, parents and learners
This series of lessons and tasks introduces concepts of forests, the importance of tropical forests, their role in climate change and how our behaviours influence deforestation. This connects with the national curriculum for Wales as it contains cross cutting themes. This lesson provides a rich context for exploring the issues of sustainability, climate change, nature, scarcity of natural resources, food security, consumerism and trade. We hope that learners come away with an understanding of the role of forests in climate change and their importance.
At the end of the course of videos participants will be able to
- Understand the role of tropical forests in tackling climate change and brief overview of climate change
- Understand the importance of tropical forests for biodiversity
- Understand their personal impacts on tropical forests
- Understand actions they can take to support tropical forest protection
Time to deliver the activities varies between 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Session 4
Video 4: TROPICAL FORESTS AND DEFORESTATION
Watch this 5 minute video:
Now that you have learned a little about rainforest deforestation, why not complete one of the following resources:
Ages 7-11
Sustainable Palm Oil Logo
Ages 11-16
Deforestation Detectives (homework)
Resources coming soon