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Deforestation in the Amazon

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In 2024, what covered about half of the land that people had changed in the Brazilian Amazon?

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Find the Amazon on a map, read satellite data on how much rainforest has been cleared, and explain why it is cleared, what happens next and who is protecting the forest.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Where is the Amazon?
  5. How fast has the Amazon been cleared?
  6. I Do — Describe the trend
  7. Why is the forest cleared?
  8. Hinge Check
  9. Sort the impacts of deforestation
  10. Who is protecting the forest?
  11. Describe the trend from 2012 to 2025
  12. Model Answer — Why indigenous territories matter
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