Resource Overview
Students play a board game about the fate of a rainforest where they must strategically balance economic and environmental decisions.
Students will be able to:
- Assess scenarios and make decisions about the rainforest and related economics based on qualitative criteria.
- List consumer products derived from tropical rainforests.
- Identify economic incentives for converting rainforest land for other purposes as well as for preserving rainforest land.
Features of This Resource
- Lesson offers connections with geo-literacy
- Great activity for environmental science classes
- Lesson incorporates social economics, and cost-benefit analysis
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