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Food processing is an important part of PEI's manufacturing industry. This site will show you what the government is doing to attract more food-related businesses to the province. Go to the heading "Sectors of Excellence" and then click on the blue link "Food" .
In the article on this web page, you can learn about the different kinds of trees that grow on the island, how harvesting the trees has affected today's forests, and other interesting facts of PEI's forests.
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1. Go to PEI's Forest Resources. 2. With a partner, read the first four paragraphs of the article. Work together to try to understand any difficult words and sentences. A dictionary may be helpful. 3. Use information from the first four paragraphs to answer the following questions:
4. With your partner, discuss the following statement: One way to protect PEI's forests would be for the government to say that the forest industry can't cut down any more trees. What problems would this solution create? 5. Record your ideas and then compare them with the ideas of another pair of students. |
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