Introduction
Death is surounding us. My people and I have suffering from the loss of rice. Let me introduce myself. I am Zhang Chu. I am from Thailand. I used to own a rice farm, but none of it is left now. It was all desrotyed. All I remember was my son Ting came running home one day and was screaming "น้ำเป็นสิ่งที่มืดและมืดมน" which means "The water is so dark and gloomy". I noticed it the day before but I did not worry. I feel really bad because I let it slip. I thought it was ok, but I was wrong.
I need help to figure out what went wrong?
Will you help me?
Task
In this adventure you will help me think of causes for this pollution. It would be a long process, but we will always find a solution. The next page will show you some activities for this new adventure.
Process
Procces:
1) Find the problem.
2) Make a circle map of what you think happened.
3) Look at these links. Copy and paste these on your Web Address bar.
- Detoxing Polluted Rice Paddies With Lime http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blog/?p=1289
- Contaminated rice to be withdrawn from shelves http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Contaminated-rice-to-be-withdr…
4) Take a while and look at these sites.
5) Write a brief summery about which of these might have caused the contamination of my rice field.
6) Now make a Double Bubble map or Venn-Diagram comparing and contrasting both of these situations.
7) Turn this in to you teacher, if not let someone else evaluate your work.
8) Make this as creative as you can!!!!!
Evaluation
| 1 Point | 2 points | 3 Points | |
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Creativity and Originality |
Project is not original |
Project is some what original |
Project is very original |
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Spelling and Grammer |
Has alot of spelling mistakes | Mostly everything is spelled correctly | Everything is spelled correctly |
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Completion |
Did hardley any of the project |
Did about half of the project | Completed all of the project |
Conclusion
Now it was very easy wasn't it? There is no right or wrong answers. You now learned a few things of how humans impact the ecosystem. This could happen anywhere you can think of. It could happen in the Tropic Rainforest, Grasslands, Desert, Tundra, Deciduous, Taiga, Alpine, Savanna, and Chaparral areas. We need to think before we act. If in both of these situations people would have stopped and think, none of this would have happened.
Thank you for taking time on these activities. I hope you learned something new.
Be Nice To Our Planet.
Credits
Mud Picture: https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/_H_h--iq-fKd2V5LOpaeHNbjN2ncXBD…;
Detoxing Polluted Rice Paddies With Lime http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blog/?p=1289
Contaminated rice to be withdrawn from shelves http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Contaminated-rice-to-be-withdr…