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Designing Solutions for Environmental Impact Reduction

Explore deforestation, antibiotic use, and palm oil cultivation impacts on biodiversity and environment. Develop solutions and assess criteria for addressing these issues.

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Designing Solutions for Environmental Impact Reduction

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  1. Monday, October 23 Ecology - HS-LS2-7 I will be able to design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity • Today’s agenda: • Video clip - phenomenon • Post-it activity • Practice • Designing solutions

  2. What questions come to mind? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllU9NEcJyg

  3. You have post-its: ask at least three questions (one on each post-it) Question Question Question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllU9NEcJyg

  4. Place the post-its on the poster at your table and organize them into categories (questions that are similar)

  5. Use your graphic organizer to answer these questions • Why is the forest being cut down? Give threeto five explanations • Where is the deforestation shown in the video clip happening?

  6. “Items” activity

  7. Antibiotics • What are they? • Have you ever used them? Why? • Where do they come from?

  8. Video

  9. Think • What is the connection between antibiotics and the rainforest? • Why are they showing all the junk food in a video about the rainforest?

  10. Think • How does cultivation of palm oil affect the local people?   • Why should you care? • How is this affecting the orangutans? • What are some health issues caused by the cultivation of palm oil?

  11. If you are stuck, here are some ideas • One environmental problem is…. • One social problem is…. • The destruction of the rain forest is connected to_________because of __________ • I care about this problem because (connect it to your life)

  12. Designing solutions • Create a solution to address this problem • What criteria would you use?

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