In this video, students will be introduced to the importance of forests (which are home to about 80% of life on land), the problems they face, and a list of solutions that can help protect them.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This video will inspire students to protect forests and encourage them to take action.
In this video, students are introduced to Ecosia, a search engine that plants trees.
Students can click on the link in the description to see a full list of Ecosia's tree-planting projects.
Additional Prerequisites
The teacher could familiarize students with Ecosia's search engine and its projects before starting with this resource.
Students need to be familiar with the terms deforestation and reforestation.
Differentiation
The teacher could divide the video into 4 parts: definition, importance and benefits, problems, and solutions.
The teacher could ask students to select one of these areas and research it on Ecosia to build a body of knowledge about forest issues.
This resources gives a detailed look at forests, and even what constitutes a forest, because not all countries use the same definition. Deforestation is one of the leading causes of climate change. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
MS-LS2-4 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
MS-LS2-5 Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
