Deforestation in Costa Rica
Deforestation in Costa Rica is a two-week teaching pack comprising structured teaching ideas, resources, a PowerPoint presentation and sample exam questions.
Designed to support your teaching of this key GCSE theme, the pack explores: causes and rates of deforestation, the impacts of deforestation and strategies for managing the rainforest.
What's included?
- activities include: mind mapping, role-play, card sorts, comprehension, a group consensus summary task, numeracy skills work and a sample exam question.
- answers included where relevant
- teaching notes and a 24 slide class PowerPoint.
What's inside?
Introduction and resource listing (pages 3-4)
Teacher notes (page 5)
Deforestation in Costa Rica student task sheets (pages 14-22)
- Activity sheet 1: Concerns about deforestation
- Activity sheet 2: Interest groups
- Activity sheet 3: Impacts of deforestation card sort
- Activity sheet 4: Sustainable management strategies mind map
- Activity sheet 5: Sustainable management strategies questions
- Activity sheet 6: Deforestation graph task
- Activity sheet 7: Effects of sustainable management strategies in Limón rainforest
- Activity sheet 8: Exam question
Deforestation in Costa Rica resource sheets (pages 23-31)
- Resource sheet 1: Interest group role cards
- Resource sheet 2: Strategies for managing the rainforest sustainably
- Resource sheet 3: What sustainable management strategies has Costa Rica used to slow down the rate of deforestation?
This sample shows one of the student activity sheets included in the Deforestation in Costa Rica teaching pack.
1. Cut out and sort these cards into positive and negative impacts of deforestation.
2. Then colour-code them into whether they are economic or environmental impacts. Make sure you add a key.
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Homes and schools can be built for the growing population |
Roads, bridges, ports and airports can be built, enabling more trade |
Large banana and coffee plantations can be planted and the crops exported |
Without the trees, the tropical soils are exposed to the heavy rain and are easily eroded |
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New towns can be built and new jobs created |
Without the shade from the trees, the land can be baked hard and the earth heats up |
Climate change can occur due to less transpiration and photosynthesis |
Biodiversity decreases as ecosystems and habitats are lost |
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Further economic development takes place, leading to a higher standard of living |
Covering the ground with buildings and roads increases surface runoff, leading to flooding |
Soil is eroded from the land and washed into the rivers, leading to more sedimentation |
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