Race around the Asian Rainforest – Road Blocks Challenge
Activity
Biofacts –Skulls,
Skins and
Confiscations
Identified animals from the Bio fact quiz
(see link on wiki page) and located items
confiscated at customs. Learnt about,
once these animals have been killed, how
they are used in medicines and other
products eg. leather and ivory.
Lessons learned?
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Red List Ranking –
Endangered Asian
Species
Classify animals according to different
levels of endangerment from least
concern to extinct and justify their
position.
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Otterly Fantastic
classification –
Classic
Classification
Challenge
Find the classification error.
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How to use with students?
Why animals, especially tigers, are still
hunted and killed and how it is
affecting the species
How, when we buy animal products
abroad, it could be supporting the
trade of an endangered species
Palm oil is hidden in many products
and endangers many species.
Elephants and silkworms are
domesticated
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The many levels of threat of
endangerment that exist for animals
and the reasons why eg. change to
habitat and predators
The many classifications of
endangerment there are for different
animal groups
What animals are now extinct eg.
Chinese River Dolphin and others that
offer no concern eg. Red Panda
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Otters eat crab and shellfish
Their real name is Amblonyx Cinereus
not Aory Cinerus
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Students can design their own ‘who am I?’
activities in literacy classes.
Write persuasive letters in favour of animal
conservation to send to an Asian government
Research quarantine laws and poaching
Audit the canteen to determine presence of
palm oil
Create their own quizzes on this topic.
Write an animal diary about poaching or being
smuggled internationally.
Students can research regions around the
world and the animals under threat and why
Analyse date of elephant/endangered species
Get students to research the levels of threat
for different species and then run sessions
with other students.
Study extinct and recently extinct animals
Run a matching game – threat levels with
animals
Use multiple intelligences to develop a
presentation on the species
Predictive activity around threatened animals.
Tree of Life –
biodiversity in the
Indonesian
Rainforest
Use flashcards to determine how many
animal or plant species are supported by
one large tree in the Rainforest and
watch a DVD on the environmental
effects of the production of Palm Oil.
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The biodiversity of a tree habitat and
how it can support a large amount of
big and small species eg. orang-utans
and up to 150 different kinds of
butterfly
How interlinked the habitat of the
Rainforest is and how the elimination
of one tree can have a huge effect
Awareness of the negative effect the
production of Palm Oil has on the
environment and how it is labelled on
food packaging eg. as vegetable oil
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Signs of Life –
Asian biodiversity
Challenge
Food for Thought
– Web of Life
Use coloured blocks to create an
environmental jenga tower and simulate
a balanced ecosystem factoring in
external influences such as pollution and
climate change.
Create food chains using picture cards of
animals and insects.
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How fragile an ecosystem is and how
easily it can be damaged
The acronym CHIPPS which represents
elements that create change in an
ecosystem:
C – Climate Change
H – Habitat destruction
I – Introduction of new species
P – Pollution
P – Poaching
S – Solutions
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That animals and insects can adapt
their food needs according to their
surroundings if needed
How dependant animals and insects
are on each other within a food chain;
the importance of reproduction on the
food chain; if one is removed
(especially top order predators) it puts
their ecosystem out of balance
The negative effects human
destruction of a habitat has on food
chains
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Investigate what foods can contain Palm Oil
and try to cook it with a substitute product in
home economics class eg. bread
Investigate and compare different tree species
and their role in the ecosystem. Students can
collect bark, leaves and flowers as an
interactive activity
Use in English classes as a persuasive writing
task. Students can write letters to local
politicians and food companies asking what
they are doing to achieve mandatory labelling.
Information at www.zoo.org.au/palmoil
Field trip to a supermarket for Palm oil
products
Audit canteen and graph results of palm oil
Replicate the game in class which can spark
discussion on the negatives that affect the
environment and how it needs balance to
survive. Provides team work, co-operation, a
futures orientation approach and problem
solving in relation to variables.
Awareness project on why students need to be
more eco-friendly and ideas on how they can
apply this to their everyday life
Research where waste ends up
Game can be used in both geography and
science class to study different animals and
ecosystems. Students can discuss the impact
of removing an animal or insect and justify
their position in a chain
Students can also create their own examples
of food chains and represent as a hanging
mobile.
Predator/prey tiggy
Use as part of the introductory and
assessment understandings.
People, Poo and
Progress –
Animal/Human
Conflict
Make cards and bookmarks using
recycled paper from Sri Lanka. The paper
is made from 80% elephant dung and
20% rice paddy stubble.
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There is a Bill before Parlimanet to
make mandatory the labelling of Palm
Oil products.
The conflict between animals and
humans due to us destroying the
forests they live in
The importance of recycling so to
preserve forests for animals like orangutans and elephants
The recycle potential of many different
waste products to make things such as
paper
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Students can learn about recycling paper and
make some themselves
Replicate the game in art class so to practice
being environmentally friendly and build
awareness of recycling
Research project on different ways to recycle
and how the school and students family can
improve their recycling methods
Visit www.saynotopalmoil.com
Use social media to raise awareness of palm oil
or write to companies asking them to stop
using palm oil (persuasive writing)