To emphasize the need for protecting our land resources

1. 042 EARTH: THE APPLE OF OUR EYE
To emphasize the need for protecting our land resources.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
Apple
Knife

2. IF THE EARTH WAS AN APPLE!

3. Oceans
Cut the apple into four equal parts.
Three parts represent the oceans of the world.
The fourth represents the land area
3/4
Land
1/4

4. Land
1/4
1/8 1/8
polar areas, deserts, swamps,
very high or rocky mountains
human beings may live
Slice this land into half.
Now you have two one-eighth pieces.
Set aside one of the pieces.
The portion set aside represents the land area that is the
polar areas, deserts, swamps, very high or rocky mountains.
The other one-eighth represents land where human beings may live.

5. man may live
1/8
rocky, wet, hot
or poor soil
cultivable
land
each
1/32
Slice this one-eighth section crosswise into four equal parts.
Three of these 1/32 section represent areas of the world which are
either rocky, wet, hot or contain poor soil that food production is not
possible

6. cultivable
land
1/32 piece
Carefully peel the last one thirty-second section.
soil supporting
food cultivation
peel of the
1/32 piece
This small bit of peel represents the soil of our earth that all of
us depend on for food!
Protecting this land resource is therefore very important