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1 WALT: Recognise how places have become the way they are and how they are changing (understand how deforestation is affecting the rainforest).

2 Every year large portions of the Earth’s rain forests are cut down for logging, mining, and cattle ranches.

3 Question (2 minutes) Why might people want to use the rainforest and cut the trees down? What might they want to use it for?

4 Question (2 minutes) What problems do you think this would cause?

5 Task Now we are going to watch a video and try to find out some of the different problems caused by destroying the rainforest (deforestation). http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/rainf orest-destruction-kalimantan-indonesia- and-costa-rica/3096.html What did we find out?

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