Lesson 2 - Unit 6 - Deforestation

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Unit 6 - Caring for the world

Today's Lesson 

To do:

- Check homework 

- Talk: Deforestation

- Video: Deforestation

- Homework

Goals: 

- Know the causes and consequences of deforestation 

How to:  notebook

- What is the issue?

- Where is the issue

- For who is it an issue?

- Does the issue affect you? and why or why not? (Invloed op jou?)

Fill out in the next slide 

Fill in your answer for the homework.
What? You?

Note: Types of issues

Examples of issues for nature: 

Air: fumes (uitlaatgassen)

Land: pollution (vervuiling) or overused (mining / forests gone...)

Water: Plastic soup, chemicals, oil 

Can we think of some more issues for nature?
And what do they affect? (air, land, water?) 

Note: Types of issues

Examples of issues for people: 

Social: War, fights, hunger, diseases 

Physical: Natural disasters, drought (droogte) or floods
Political: Dictators, bad leadership, corruption 
Economical: High prices, low income, no products

Can we think of some more issues for people?

Today's issue: Deforestation

Deforestation: Ontbossing.

Cutting away the trees 
on a large scale and not 
planting them back

Why are people cutting away the trees? What do you think?

Video 

1. Watch the video

2. Write down the answer to these questions:
- What are three reasons people are cutting the trees?

- What is a consequence (gevolg) of cutting down the trees?

Homework

1. Make three drawings in your notebook.

Drawing 1: What it looks like before deforestation

Drawing 2: What it looks like during deforestation

Drawing 3: What it looks like after deforestation