05.+Choice+Tasks

Once you have completed your compulsory tasks, select one of the following:
 * Design an advertising campaign to increase awareness of and financial support for the conservation of our rainforests. The campaign should include print and visual media.
 * Using any of the books by Jeannie Baker and Graeme Base as a model, create a picture book for younger students to raise awareness of the need for rainforest preservation.
 * Research an indigenous rainforest tribe and how their habits help preserve the rainforest.
 * Which rainforest region of the world is currently at the greatest environmental risk? Why do you believe this to be the case?
 * What is the work of an ethnobiologist? Why is their work so integral to understanding the importance of our rainforests?
 * What medicinal remedies have originated in rainforests? How were they discovered? Choose one and research its discovery, use and purposes.
 * Choose a scientist, explorer or historian who has or is studying, researching or exploring rainforests. Learn all you can about him or her and his or her study, work or exploration. Why did he/she choose to focus on rainforests? Prepare a presentation about your chosen person including a biography or autobiography and multimedia.