ORINOCO RIVER CASE GUIDE

ORINOCO RIVER CASE GUIDE

Students:   6ª Graders

Time: 30 min

Objetive: use of Why and because

Warm up: visual explanation of the use of why and because. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLLfyyyKVzE

Vocabulario: third, world, place, navigate, tributary, oil, grass, even though, soil, clean, dirty

Resources: Case Debate environment in the lab, , Digalo2, observation in situ (visit to Orinoco river), writing activity, reading activity, ICT activity, pictures, videos

Description of the case: Issue from Puerto Carreño Vichada community

Orinoco River is the third largest river in the world, after Amazon and Congo rivers. Orinoco means a place to navigate.  It has many tributaries like Guaviare, Vichada, Meta, Arauca and most of the important rivers in Venezuela. Orinoco river region also possesses the biggest petroleum reserves.  It is home to many species of flora and fauna like oaks, palms, swamp grasses. tembladores, toninas, piranhas, corocoras, parrots and crocodiles. Even though, Orinoco river has all of these ecosystems and richness of nature, it has been contaminated by humans. However in the simple sense of living, people affect environment people raise cattle, deforest land or build a factory; they also contaminate the river and the soil by throwing all sorts of trash and polluting materials. How we can live in this wonderful environment, How can we preserve this harmony as individuals and in a cooperative way

 Who contaminates the Orinoco river; people who lives around the river or people who visit Orinoco river? Why? Propose how people can contribute to keeping the river clean.

Interview  (at the end): Spanglish, English or Spanish

Should we do eveery thing to protect the enviroment or should we

1.      Which part of side of this debate do you want to argue?

2.      What is your strongest opinion about what should you do with the environment?

3.      what will happen in the future if we use natural resourse and the environment just to our own benefit?.