by Shannon Cuthbertson, Jay Middle School
Students will go on a rescue mission to save the Rainforest and the animals that live there.
Introduction
Your team has been chosen to travel to the Amazon Rainforest. The rainforest is a beautiful and marvelous place filled with exotic birds, animals and plants.
Rainforests are being eliminated for timber, minerals, agriculture, and human settlement. Other motives, such as the desire to conquer nature or to control unoccupied territory, also are factors in deforestation.
The people of the Amazon want to continue to grow and prosper, however they don't want to lose their wonderful rainforest. Your expertise and knowlege is needed to investigate how to save this beautiful place, but allow the people of the Amazon to continue to prosper.