We are going to use Global Forest Watch, GFW to look more closely at Tesso Nilo National Park, one of the areas Harrison Ford focused on during his work in Indonesia.Įxplain to students that they will quantify tree loss in Tesso Nilo National Park. Please do not bypass the Explore section. This exploration time with the analysis tool is important to student success in the upcoming Explain section. Students may want to continue taking a few notes as this lesson will require them to retrieve and analyze data.Įxplore the statistics and information about Indonesia on. Have students investigate, particularly the scrolling stats across the home page screen. Have students take our online quiz both before and after the lesson.
You will also need to print the student handouts from pages 14-20 of the PDF Lesson Plan.Ĭarbon cycle, carbon sinks, climate, climate change, commercial agriculture, dendroclimatology, deforestation, evidence, emissions, fact, greenhouse gases, Green Peace, hectare, impact, local versus global, opinion, palm oil, palm oil conglomerate, peat, pine bark beetle, plantation, refuge, scarcity, sequester, want versus need In “Last Stand,” Harrison Ford travels to Indonesia to investigate palm oil and deforestation.įor this lesson, students will need their science notebooks and individual or paired use of a computer with Internet access to watch a Global Forest Watch video on YouTube. In “Fire Line,” Arnold Schwarzenegger joins an elite team of wildland firefighters as they battle a new breed of forest fire, one made more deadly by climate change. Palm oil is used in many processed foods, cosmetics, household products.
In fact, the largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra is for palm oil. When people think of the causes of deforestation, logging for timber and paper usually comes to mind. Deforestation also reduces and degrades water supply and soil quality and has devastating impacts on local communities – all key factors that perpetuate global poverty. Deforestation also threatens the local biodiversity of a region, such as the orangutan populations whose numbers of significantly declined due to habitat loss from deforestation. Accounting for around 20% of global carbon dioxide emissions, tropical deforestation is a major driver of global climate change, when the carbon stored in our planet’s forests is released as forests are cut and burned. Rainforest loss around the globe releases as many heat trapping gasses (greenhouse gases, GHG) into the atmosphere as all the world’s cars, trucks, ships, and airplanes combined. It is critical for us to understand the changes we are bringing about to the earth system, and to understand the effects and consequences of those changes for life on our planet. Human changes to the land are enabling our own populations to grow, but they also are affecting the capacity of ecosystems to produce food, maintain fresh water and forests, regulate climate and air quality, and provide other essential functions necessary for life. Land cover change has effects and consequences at all geographic scales: local, regional, and global.
Finding the best mod designers, the talent within the community (ie.
Finding the best released mods from each genre (i.e.Not anymore 2004 marks the first year when the public who make and play the mods out there get to decide which are the best going round. We have even seen some 'Mod of the Year' awards, however, they have often been small uneventful features, judged by a few biased reporters and limited to one game. Each year we see a flurry of 'Game of the Year' awards features.