How Can We Protect the Seabed from Storms?

Positives

• The first video follows the story of a collaborative effort between conservationists, fishermen, and scientists to protect a marine area, while not sacrificing the livelihoods of the people who rely on its resources.
• The paper includes an abstract, introduction, methodology, results, discussion, and conclusion. It can therefore be used to introduce students to reading more complex scientific papers.

Additional Prerequisites

• Teachers must fill in a form with their name, email, and school information to access the teacher's key, which includes answers to the comprehension questions.
• The difference between conservation and preservation should be made clear to students before the lesson. Otherwise, the concept of fishing in a conservation area may be confusing.

Differentiation

• It may be helpful for some students to use the audio version of the article found at the bottom of the webpage.
• Have students think critically about what factors incentivized and enabled bottom trawling and overfishing, to begin with, and what could have been done to prevent the resulting marine degradation.
• Younger students can answer the comprehension questions in groups.
• This lesson can also be used in economics and civics classes during lessons about the unintended consequences of economic and policy decisions.