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With increasing population and shrinking resources the demand for resources is to grow into enormous proportions.

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097 SHRINKING RESOURCES With increasing population and shrinking resources the demand for resources is to grow into enormous proportions. MATERIALS REQUIRED Old newspapers Students SIMPLE TASKS GREAT CONCEPTS
newspaper newspaper Open a newspaper centre-page, make the students realise that as a resource. Spread the resource (the newspaper page) on the floor and ask four students to stand on it comfortably. They are indeed able to do it.
newsI Now fold the page into two and ask all the four students to stand on it. They are able to do it but come closer. With further folding the space or resource gets smaller and smaller and there is a scramble amongst the students to have a foot on the resource.
As might is right takes over, the students start grabbing whatever space is available as the resource gets shrunk. Finally only one student manages to have a foot on the resource. Adults please see to it that students do not hurt each other. This is an excellent example to show the impact of shrinking natural resources.

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097 shrinking resources

  • 1. 097 SHRINKING RESOURCES With increasing population and shrinking resources the demand for resources is to grow into enormous proportions. MATERIALS REQUIRED Old newspapers Students SIMPLE TASKS GREAT CONCEPTS
  • 2. newspaper newspaper Open a newspaper centre-page, make the students realise that as a resource. Spread the resource (the newspaper page) on the floor and ask four students to stand on it comfortably. They are indeed able to do it.
  • 3. newsI Now fold the page into two and ask all the four students to stand on it. They are able to do it but come closer. With further folding the space or resource gets smaller and smaller and there is a scramble amongst the students to have a foot on the resource.
  • 4. As might is right takes over, the students start grabbing whatever space is available as the resource gets shrunk. Finally only one student manages to have a foot on the resource. Adults please see to it that students do not hurt each other. This is an excellent example to show the impact of shrinking natural resources.