Rainforest Report

Over the past couple of weeks my class and I have been researching about the rainforest and have come up with many cool items. We have been researching about the rainforest because of the current crisis, many people are cutting down aceres and aceres of rainforests to use for farming and cattle farms.

We cut down an average of 55,600 trees per minute, every day we cut down an average of 42,000000 trees per day, and every year we cut down a whopping 3.5 to 7 billion trees per year, and even though we have around 3 trillion trees although that is a lot with the average of 3.5 to 7 billion trees cut down per in no time will we have no trees.

we did this art to remind us and others

 who come into our class that we support

and are always going to help the

enviroment.

To create this piece we first had to make the plants outline from rainforest plants we researched. We used different sizes to make effect and layering, when it came to the shading we used darker colours for the leaves at the back and lighter shading for the leaves at the front.

We tried our hardest when we needed to make it look realistic and very detailed. Once we finished the basic design of the leaves including the colour we then moved on to dye the background. I used green dye as a detail to make it look like there were other green plants behind the main ones. Once the background was finished we went online to research and find rainforest birds. Once we did we got a seperate piece of paper and drew the basic outline of the bird and then coloured it in the colours they are (The name of my bird is the blue and yellow Macaw). We then dyed the areas that needed to be dyed so the colour would be filled and give it more detail. We then cut it out and used the off cuttings as the hold for the 3D shape.

The challenging part for me was when drawing I strained my arm a lot and it made me very tired. Although I strained my arm it was a very fun activity and everyone was able to be as creative as they wanted.

Other than doing the art we have also been making slides or posters about the rainforest (Rainforest Research) and we have been  researching about the affect of the rainforests around the world. (Did you know Rainforests cover 13 percent of the Earth) While doing this resarch I realized that the rainforests are more important than we think. We are taking them for granted and not realize the affect the rainforest has and without it where humanity would be now. I made this slide as a reminder and a warning that if we carry on with what we are doing humantiy 

will be like many animal species and be extinct.