PowerPoint for lesson on sustainable development in rainforests, based on Amazon - designed for bright Y10

1. Sustainable Development of
Tropical Rainforests

2. By the end of this lesson you
will know you have succeeded if
you are able to…
• Define sustainable development
• Recall some ways of trying to achieve
sustainable development in TRFs
• Evaluate some of the different methods

3. So… what is sustainable development?
“Sustainable development is development
which meets the needs* of the present
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs*.
Sustainable development attempts to
minimise the negative impacts of
development by considering the needs of
both the environment and future generations”
(* - social, economic and environmental)

4. Homework
1. Complete a past GCSE question on this topic:
“Evaluate different methods of achieving
sustainable development in a named tropical
rainforest location in terms of their social,
economic and environmental outcomes” [9
marks]
2. Play an online ‘game’ – see
www.eduweb.com/ecotourism/eco1.html
AND EVALUATE IT – i.e. suggest pros and cons
of the game as a way of learning about rainforest
ecotourism

5. In the lesson today…
1. Get into 5 teams
2. Location of Maués, Brazil
3. Assign roles (native family, settlers from city,
government, Greenpeace, research student)
4. Decide in your groups (in role) which option
you would choose for developing the rainforest
sustainably AND WHY [write it down]
5. Choose a spokesperson to explain to the class
Feel free to scribble
which option you chose AND WHY (and why
not the others) the options
ideas on
sheets

9. Evaluation (cont.)
Click here for
• NB there are lots of other video clip
possible methods,
e.g. what do you think these are?
- selective logging Which trees are selected?
- small scale slash & Why?
burn
- leasing to pharmaceutical companies for
medicinal research
Pros and cons?
Environmental?
Social?
Economic?

10. But before you get sucked in,
here’s another of the adverts:

11. By the end of this lesson you
will know you have succeeded if
you are able to…
• Define sustainable development
• Recall some ways of trying to achieve
sustainable development in TRFs
• Evaluate some of the different methods

12. “Evaluate different methods of achieving sustainable
development in a named tropical rainforest location in
terms of their social, economic and environmental
outcomes” [9 marks] What’s needed for 9/9?
• “Evaluate”?
• “different methods”
• “social, economic, environmental”
• Geographical terms
• Specifics
• SPaG

13. Evaluation
• What were the advantages of looking at
this issue through group work (as opposed
to e.g. internet research)?
• What about drawbacks?
• Can you comment with authority about
sustainable development of the rainforest
in e.g. Brazil or Congo or Madagascar?

14. What do these statements mean?
Do you agree with them?
• “Sustainability is a spectrum, not a
‘black & white’ issue”
• “Environmental and economic
sustainability are often in conflict – it is
hard to achieve both”
• “It is hard to find unbiased, authoritative
information on sustainable development
of tropical rainforests”

15. Could you apply the ideas
and thinking skills from
today to other parts of the
course / other subjects?

16. Copyright etc.
• All pictures are my own, or from ‘creative
commons’ search on Flickr
• Many thanks to the SLN community for
ideas and support in making this lesson