This beautifully animated video shows the many ways that nature and biodiversity are vital to continuing life on Earth and how species extinctions and habitat destruction are jeopardizing our future.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This video is brief but it makes the case for nature-based solutions to protect biodiversity and wild habitat in order to protect our future on Earth.
This video could be used in an ethics, social studies, or civics class to discuss if nature, wild spaces, oceans, and other species have the right to exist or if global protections should be enacted to protect interconnected ecosystems.
This would be a great introduction to lessons about ecosystems, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity.
This video explores the importance of ecosystem management and restoration, an approach that supports sustainable livelihoods, forests, ecosystems, human lives, biodiversity, conservation, and human health. This is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
MS-LS2-5 Evaluate competing design solutions for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.
HS-LS2-6 Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Geography
D2.Geo.6.9-12 Evaluate the impact of human settlement activities on the environmental and cultural characteristics of specific places and regions.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.
