1. Table of Contents Environmental Issues Forests and Fisheries
Biodiversity
The Search for New Medicines

2. What is an issue?
What are some examples of issues that you have heard about? With your partner write down 3 issues that you are aware of today in Thailand. An example of an issue is below. Should we build a Bangkok Disney in a wet land?

3. Types of Environmental Issues
Resource use
Population growth
Pollution
Making responsible decisions
Balancing different needs
Types of costs and benefits
Weighing costs and benefits

4. Classroom Issues Global Warming Rural Flooding Unemployment
Loud teachers
No kissing in school
Drivers License age
Gay marriage
Skating in public
Drinking age

5. Identifying Main Ideas
- Environmental Issues
Identifying Main Ideas
As you read the section “Types of Environmental Issues,” write the main idea in a graphic organizer like the one below. Then write three supporting details that give examples of the main idea.
Main Idea
Three types of environmental issues are…
Detail
Detail
Detail
Resource use
Population growth
Pollution

6. For Homework
Complete the Section assessment #1 Complete the Guided Reading Worksheet Section #1

7. End of Section: Environmental Issues

8. Identifying Forest Products
What things can you find in the classroom that came from the forest?

9. What happened to the Tuna?
Lab Zone P. 89
Complete the graph.
Inferring: Describe the changes in the tuna population during this period. Can you suggest a reason for these changes?

10. What products come from the forest?
Nuts
Lumber
Pulp
Rubber
Fruit

11. Managing Forests Forests and Fisheries
Clear-cutting involves cutting down all the trees in an area at once. Selective cutting involves cutting down only some trees.

12. Logging Methods Activity
Forests and Fisheries
Logging Methods Activity
Click the Active Art button to open a browser window and access Active Art about logging methods.

13. How do we manage fishing in Thailand?
Lab Zone p. 92 Calculating
How do we prevent over fishing?
Fishing limits
Fishing methods
Aquaculture
New resources

14. Using Prior Knowledge Forests and Fisheries
Before you read, write what you know about forests and fish resources in a graphic organizer like the one below. As you read, write what you learn.
What You Know
Forests provide people with lumber and paper.
Commercial fishing boats harvest large amounts of fish.
What You Learned
Forests can be renewable resources.
Setting fishing limits, changing fishing methods, and developing aquaculture techniques are ways to manage fisheries for sustainable yields.

15. Complete Section Assessment p. 95 as well as guided reading.

16. End of Section: Forests and Fisheries

17. What organisms live in our area?
With your partner list as many organisms that you can think of that live near your home. (5 mins)

18. Which area is more likely to have a higher biodiversity- Tropical Rainforest or Earth’s Poles?
Why?
Why does a coral reef have such a diversity?

19. Biodiversity and Economics
How can an entire ecosystem be used to generate income?
In your groups you will be assigned one ecosystem. Please brainstorm how you could make money using the resources in the ecosystem.
Rainforest
Savannah
Coral Reef
Marine
Aquatic
Forest
Urban
Mountain

20. Diversity and Survival of Species
What are genes?
Genes determine characteristics of all organisms.
Why is this important?
What is the Gene Pool of a species?

21. Endangered Species 1) What are they? 2) Why does it happen?
3) What can we do to prevent it?
Get into 3 even groups
Group 1 answer #1
Group 2 answer #2
Group 3 answer #3
Report to the class

22. Diversity of Species Biodiversity
The number of different species in an area is called its biodiversity.

23. Factors Affecting Biodiversity
Factors that affect biodiversity in an ecosystem include area, climate, and diversity of niches.

24. California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Biodiversity
California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
The peregrine falcon, the world’s fastest bird of prey, was nearly extinct in the United States in The pesticide DDT was weakening peregrine eggshells, so eggs rarely hatched. In 1972, the United States banned DDT. Use the graph to answer questions about the peregrine population in California.

25. California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Biodiversity
California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Reading Graphs:
What variable is plotted on the x-axis? What variable is plotted on the y-axis?
Time interval in years is on the x-axis. Number of breeding pairs of peregrine falcons is on the y-axis.

26. California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Biodiversity
California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Interpreting Data:
How did California’s peregrine population change from 1976 to 1998?
The population grew steadily, except for a brief drop around 1980, until 1994, when the number of breeding pairs remained the same for the four following years.

27. California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Biodiversity
California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Inferring:
Why do you think the peregrine population grew fairly slowly at first?
There were only a few breeding pairs at first, and they could produce only a few young. These, in turn, had to grow up before they had a chance to breed. As more pairs grew to breeding age, more and more young could be produced.

28. California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Biodiversity
California Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Predicting:
What might this graph have looked like if DDT had not been banned?
The graph probably would have sloped downward from left to right, possibly reaching zero breeding pairs.

29. Click the Video button to watch a movie about endangered species.
Biodiversity
Endangered Species
Click the Video button to watch a movie about endangered species.

30. Building Vocabulary Biodiversity
After you read this section, reread the paragraphs that contain definitions of Key Terms. Use all the information you have learned to write a meaningful sentence using each Key Term.
Key Terms:
Examples:
threatened species
habitat destruction
habitat fragmentation
poaching
captive breeding
Key Terms:
Examples:
biodiversity
Species that could become endangered in the near future are called threatened species.
The biodiversity of ecosystems can have great economic value.
keystone species
A keystone species is a species that influences the survival of many other species in an ecosystem.
The major cause of extinction is habitat destruction.
Breaking larger habitats into smaller, isolated pieces, or fragments, is called habitat fragmentation.
gene
Genes are the structures in an organism’s cells that carry its hereditary information.
The illegal killing or removal of wildlife species from their habitats is called poaching.
extinction
The disappearance of all members of a species from Earth is called extinction.
endangered species
Captive breeding is the mating of animals in zoos or wildlife preserves.
Species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future are called endangered species.

31. End of Section: Biodiversity

32. Asking Questions The Search for New Medicines
Before you read, preview the red headings. In a graphic organizer like the one below, ask a what, how, who, when, or where question for each heading. As you read, write the answers to your questions.
Question
Answer
Why is biodiversity important to medicine?
Biodiversity is important because there may be undiscovered medicines that exist in nature.
What is the story of taxol?
Taxol is a cancer treatment drug that comes from the bark of the Pacific yew tree. Scientists are concerned about the supply of this tree.
How can we increase the supply of taxol?
Today taxol can be reproduced in the lab.

33. End of Section: The Search for New Medicines

34. Graphic Organizer Biodiversity Economic value Ecological value
is valued for
can be protected by
Economic value
Ecological value
Captive breeding
Habitat preservation
Laws
is threatened by
Habitat destruction
Poaching
Pollution
Poaching

35. End of Section: Graphic Organizer