Sec 2 NTSS Sem 2: The haze n you

• 1. The Haze Impact on you, your family, your community

2. Where is this haze from? Hot Spots in Indonesia and Malaysia Plantation owners Burning and clearing of farm land. We are here! 3. Why do we always get it? Annual clearing of land. Large scale deforestation, loss of national parks? Cheap and fast. Lower costs so that prices will be lower. 4. What prices? Plantations tend to be Oil Palm plantations Palm Oil is used everywhere. 5. The Kit Kat dilemma Increasing the costs of Oil Palm might mean triple the price of this same bag of Kit Kat. $15 Kit Kat??? 6. Does it impact non-humans? 7. What about us? 8. Todays activity Activity 1 On your paper cutouts, write down how the haze affected the following different groups in society. Yourself Your family members (give 2 examples) Your community (state an observation you made) Your country (give an example of what your country tried to do) Paste them on the papers under the respective headings. Write your names 9. An Example Myself: I could not go out to play even though it was the school holidays. My Family: My daughter missed her outing to the Zoo and Bird park. My Sister came down with asthma because of the smoke and dust in the air. My Community: The Construction workers in my estate were working throughout the time without any masks to protect themselves. My Country: The Prime Minister offered to help the Indonesian government to locate and put out the fires. 10. Todays activity Activity 1 On your paper cutouts, write down how the haze affected the following different groups in society. Yourself Your family members (give 2 examples) Your community (state an observation you made) Your country (give an example of what your country tried to do) Paste them on the papers under the respective headings. Write your names 10 minutes 11. Done? Take a piece of the Activity 2 to learn some words of emotion that people felt during the haze.