Oil Palm Plantations: Effects on Tropical Rainforests
Media literacy and critical thinking activity in which students decode a TV commercial and a documentary film excerpt for messages about the benefits and costs of transforming a tropical rainforest into an oil palm plantation to supply the global market.
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Unit: BiodiversityKit: Media Constructions of Sustainability: Middle School
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Relevant Subject Area(s)
Film/Video Arts, Commercial Arts/Advertising, Consumer Education, Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Economics, Sociology, ELA/English Language ArtsGrade Level(s)
Middle SchoolMedia Type(s)
Documentary Film, Television CommercialAuthor(s)
Sox SperryView Standards
Resource Standard Common Core ELA StrandReading: History Social Studies (RH), Writing-History Science and Technical Subjects (WHST)