Mobile Minerals

Positives

• The video is concise and easy to understand.
• The video's animation style is colorful and distinct.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with the periodic table of elements.
• Teachers may want to have pictures of the minerals the video mentions.
  

Differentiation

• This video can supplement a lesson on how the production and consumption of technology impact the Earth's climate.
• Geography teachers can use this video in a lesson about how technology production leads to intercontinental trade and who benefits more than others in this exchange.
• This video could enhance a lesson on how mobile phones are produced, who the producers are, and what parts of mobile phones contribute to various functions.
• Students can discuss how mobile phones impact social structures, mental health, and commerce.
• Teachers may wish to display a world map and the periodic table to reference as the characters identify different minerals and their countries of origin.