Eighth graders complete an online scavenger hunt about banana cultivation before they visit a grocery store to examine banana products. They investigate "certified" means in relation to banana production and read the "Rainforest Alliance...

Students debate over the cutting of rainforests in order to put people to work. They then brainstorm ways it may be possible to provide jobs for people and to preserve the rainforest.

Cites an Austrian law that tried to limit tropical rainforest product imports through taxation and eco-labeling in order to slow the effects of deforestation due to export trade. The effort was met with so much economic opposition that...