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Students will enjoy the jokes and songs throughout the video.
Vibrant characters make the video more engaging and memorable for students.
Prerequisites
Teachers may want to show students videos of tennis or take them outside to play so they have background knowledge to connect to the video.
Differentiation & Implementation
Teachers can pause before the first Did You Know? segment to ask students to think about what else they can reuse instead of throwing away. Students can draw comic strips to show the journey of an object that is reused multiple times for different things.
Health teachers can make connections to the health benefits associated with exercise and playing sports like tennis.
After watching the Do Good Dare segment, teachers can have students design their tennis ball ideas on paper. If possible, teachers can provide students with old and worn tennis balls to give them new life.
After the segment about ants, teachers can ask students to brainstorm what they can accomplish as a class by working together like ants.
To make connections to climate change, teachers can ask students why it is important to reuse objects. Teachers can guide students to the answer that creating new things creates greenhouse gas emissions.
Teachers can connect this video to the UN Sustainable Development Goals by explaining how reusing items is an example of responsible consumption and production (Goal 12).
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