Life+on+Land


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Essential Questions:
 * 1) What role do forests play in the lives of living things?
 * 2) What is land degradation and what are its leading causes?
 * 3)  What should be done or policies enacted regarding land degradation?
 * 4) What are the economic consequences of continuing along this path or changing course?

You Will:
 * learn vocabulary within the context of the unit.
 * understand the role that forests play with the living things that depend on them.
 * understand what is happening to forests and what factors are causing this change.
 * identify what can be done to stop or slow down this change.

media type="youtube" key="hllU9NEcJyg" width="560" height="315" Resources: Websites:
 * [|United Nations Environment Program]
 * [|Convention on Biodiversity]
 * [|Forestry]

[|What is Deforestation e-school]
 * [|United Nations Convention to Combate Desertification]
 * [|Deforest Action]
 * [|Deforestation Facts]
 * [|What is deforestation?]
 * [|Encyclopedia of Earth]
 * [|American Museum of Natural History]
 * [|Global Oneness Project]
 * [|Tree of Life Project]

Air Pollution [|Kidcyber Air Pollution]

Waste Management:
Pollution Affecting Animals on Land [|Plastic Pollution] [|Pollution Threats] [|Plastic Affecting Life on Land] [|Effects on Animals] [|E School Land Pollution] [|How Littering Kills Animals PETA] [|Effects of Land Pollution]
 * [|Waste Managment Reduce, Recycle, Reuse]
 * [|Waste Managment]
 * [|World's Waste Crisis]
 * [|270,000 Tons of Trash in Oceans]

Videos: Articles:
 * [|GLP Videos]
 * [|CNN Explains Deforestation]
 * [|National Geographic Deforestation]
 * [|Saving the Rainforest?]
 * [|Deforestation in the Amazon]
 * [|Losing Flowering Plants]
 * [|UN SDGs]
 * [|What is Biodiversity?]


 * 1) === [|Footprint Calculators] ===

There are many varieties of ecological footprint calculators.


 * Among the most reliable are those associated with the Global Footprint Network , the largest and most respected assemblage of expertise on ecological accounting. Collectively, the GFN has developed the largest and most complex datasets, and have set the standards by which roughly ninety percent of ecological footprints are calculated.
 * Carbon Calculators. Some useful individual or household calculators are:
 * U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Household Emissions Calculator
 * The Conservation Fund’s Go Zero calculator
 * Bonneville Environmental Foundation
 * Chuck Wright’s Carbon Calculator
 * The Clearwater Carbon Calculator
 * SafeClimate sponsored by the World Resources Institute
 * American Forests calculator
 * TerraPass, a carbon offsets provider
 * Be Green