January 29, 2015

Warm Up:

DOG

Take this quiz! Click here! (If you were absent and then send me an email that it is done.)

Objective: I will be successful when....

...I can 

• define and explain the importance of these key geographic terms: biodiversity, carbon-oxygen cycle, deforestation, sustainable development, tropical rainforest
• teach the class about one of the groups that has an interest in the preservation or use of the resources of the Amazon rainforest.
• analyze and discuss a series of questions to help them understand the competing viewpoints of these various groups
• investigate the ideas from around the world about how to address land use conflict in the rainforest and determine which would be most applicable to the Amazon region.

In Class:

Letter to the Brazilian Government Link (you can write or type it in Google Classroom)
Reducing Land Use Conflict Worksheet Link
Chapter 12 


HW:

1.  Unfinished Letters READ THE DIRECTIONS!! due tomorrow beginning of class