1. Jobs in the Amazon
Rainforest
Jobs in the Amazon Rainforest

2. What jobs do people do who live in
Rainforests?
With the person next to you come up with a list
of 10 jobs that people might do in the
rainforest!
Jobs in the Amazon Rainforest

3. Jobs in the Amazon
Rainforest
• Many of the things we have in our homes comes from the
rainforest.
• These include:
– medicine
– chocolate - Chocolate is made from cocoa. Cocoa pods grow on trees
in rainforests.
– sugar
– spices - includes ginger, allspice, pepper, cinnamon, coconut, vanilla,
turmeric and paprika.
– rubber
– pineapples
– bamboo
– Does this give you a clue as to the jobs they may do?
Jobs in the Amazon Rainforest

4. Jobs in the Amazon rainforest
• Watch Bruce Parry HERE (14.40 – logging) and
HERE (from 10.00- mining) and in your exercise books
see what jobs you see people doing in
the Rainforest – are they all legal?
• Get ready to take some notes in your
exercise books.
Jobs in the Amazon Rainforest

5. Your Task!
• You need to imagine you are a newspaper reporter
who has been sent to the Amazon to write an article
on what jobs people do there!
• Your report needs to be at least ____ pages in your
exercise book.
•In the darkest corner of the rainforest I came
across some of the most hard working people I
have ever met ….
•I thought I know people who worked hard until I
met the … Jobs in the Amazon Rainforest

6. Peer Review
• One of the best ways of learning is
from each other.
• Read your neighbours newspaper article
through and underneath it write;
– One thing that I liked was …..
– One thing that would make it even
better would be …
LO: Jobs in the Amazon Rainforest

7. Homework
• Start your rainforest project, you have
two weeks.
LO: Jobs in the Amazon Rainforest