Write an Op-Ed column. Discuss the major characteristics of the world's tropical rainforests. Rainforests hold 50-70 percent of the planet's species, many as yet unidentified, but are estimated to be losing 50,000 species a year to extinction. The plants of the rainforest have yielded life-saving medicines and hold countless more undiscovered ones. Hundreds of thousands of indigenous peoples live in rainforests, although their numbers were once in the millions.
Rainforests are vast storehouses of lumber and minerals.
Discuss the nature and structure of an Op-Ed column in a newspaper. Copy and distribute examples of these. Discuss the functions and purpose of a Town Meeting. Web Work 1. Divide the class into six teams of approximately five students each.