Positives

• The video shares the perspective of a Wisconsin fly fishing guide who is knowledgeable and sincere.
• The article cites research that is specific and from a credible source.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to understand the importance of biodiversity and maintaining the health of ecosystems.
• Students need to understand how climate change leads to an increase of severe precipitation events.
  

Differentiation

• This resource could support a lesson on how climate change alters ecosystems around the world.
• After watching the video and reading the article, the teacher could lead a classroom discussion on how Wisconsinites may react as climate change continues, trout populations die off, and flooding increases.
• This resource could enhance a classroom discussion on why certain states take conservation more seriously than others.
• This resource could supplement a lesson on the fragility of ecosystems and why sudden changes to an ecosystem are harmful to plants and animals.