Positives

• This video provides the connections between these many topics and helps students understand why protecting nature and intact ecosystems is so important for all life on Earth.
• It identifies the huge financial cost of losing the services that ecosystems provide, not to mention the spiritual, mental health, and intangible benefits nature provides.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• The video does a good job of defining terms, but students should be familiar with terms like ecosystems, deforestation, and global warming.
• The video has a number of breaks or pauses identified that can be used to quickly reference certain topics or to jump back to for review.
• There may be an ad before the video.
  

Differentiation

• Social studies classes could use this video to connect ecosystem services with communities that rely on nature for subsistence farming and subsistence fishing. 
• Any class could use this video to help students understand the importance of protecting wild spaces and wildlife on land and in the oceans.
• Other resources related to this topic include this PBS video about extinction, this StC lesson, this video about ecosystem resiliency, and this table of solutions to climate change.