In order for our group, Flora, to achieve an A,
we must be able to
communicate effectively with each other and other
groups. We then will be able
to collaborate our personal and group research
to the entire class.
We will examine the Rainforest Flora,
first understanding the abiotic
factors that regulate the plants, such as water
or sunlight. We then will need
to find a way to effectively measure these factors
and needs of the flora.
Additionally, we will prepare a system to monitor
the well being and status of
the flora, given an understanding of the each
flora's function.
After we have established a criteria
and means to study the health of the
flora, we will need to identify the threats.
Then, we will come up with
solutions to counteract, minimize, or block those
threats.
Our final goal is to create a content
rich website, which encompasses the
previous goals and is comprehensive and practical
enough to be implemented.
Links
Greatest Places: The Amazon
"The Greatest Places" is a large-format film that takes you on an educational
journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on Earth.
This part
of the companion Web site offers information about the Amazon, postcards
of
macaws, boating tips for the Amazon, and more.
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/greatestplaces/book_pages/amazon2.htm
Exploring the Vast Amazon
If you like the Amazon, there are "tons of information" on tribes, location,
environmental and conservation issues, and most of all, animals of the
Amazon.
This site, produced by students as part of ThinkQuest, is a terrific example
of
what enterprising young minds can accomplish.
http://prince.thinkquest.org/5128/
Live From the Rainforest
Follow in Darwin's footsteps, courtesy of Passport to Knowledge, to the
heart of
our planet's largest rainforest, guided by some of the world's leading
biologists.
Explore "the greatest expression of life" so far discovered in all the
Universe, via
a project that uses video, real-time interactions, the Internet and hands-on
science activities-Live From The Rainforest.
http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/intro.html
Amazonia From Space
You will find here LANDSAT images used by PRODES (the Brazilian Amazon
Deforestation Survey Project) in 1991. These images show LANDSAT bands
3 in
blue, 4 in green and 5 in red. They were received by INPE's station of
Cuiabá,
processed in INPE's Cachoeira Paulista Space Center and produced by IBM
Rio
Scientific Center.
http://www.dpi.inpe.br/grid/quick-looks
Amazon Interactive
This site is based on field research into indigenous ecotourism in the
Ecuadorian
Amazon. It is designed to illustrate some basic physical and human geography
of
the Amazon, as well as the risks and benefits of ecotourism as a development
strategy. If you'd like to learn more, you can read the research report
on which
these activities are based.
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
Amazon Life
The Amazon region has a great forest that presents the largest biodiversity
of the
world. It is a plane equatorial area, covering 5.5 million square kilometers,
that
corresponds to more than half of the European continent. This web site
uses this
rich and natural area for the study of Ecology, presenting concepts about
Energy
Flow and the Matter Cycle, and information about the Brazilian area of
the
Amazon Rainforest.
http://library.thinkquest.org/20248/inicio.html
PBS
The Living Edens: Manu
Along the eastern base of the Andes is a great red and winding river named
Manu
-- the lifeblood and main highway for the Manu Biosphere Reserve. The Reserve
offers us a special look at the abundance of life in the rare Amazonian
wilderness.
http://www.pbs.org/edens/manu/
NOVA: Warriors of the Amazon
The Yanomami people have lived in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest
in
Venezuela, South America, for centuries with little or no contact from
outside
society. Within the past 40 or 50 years, however, contact from non-native
groups
outside the Yanomami culture has increased, with both postive and negative
results.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shaman/
Going Places: Interview With Philip Klint
"Going Places" takes people from everyday life to exotic places around
the globe.
In this interview, Philip Klint travels to Ecuador from his home in New
York City,
where he is correspondent for Eco News on Mexican TV. He has lived in
countries including Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/goingplaces2/ecuador/interviews.html