How Can Nature Be Used as a Tool to Restore Ecosystems?
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Provided by: The Kid Should See This|Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This animated video and article explains that preserving and restoring natural ecosystems is a powerful and necessary solution to climate change.
- It describes how allowing natural ecosystems to flourish increases photosynthesis, balances ecosystems, provides many other benefits to humans, and increases the storage of extra carbon from the air.
- Students will learn that each component of the ecosystem plays a valuable and necessary role in keeping the entire ecosystem, and our planet, healthy.
Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: The Kid Should See This, Natural Climate Solutions
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This engaging video offers a variety of ways that nature can heal the planet, if allowed to.
- The article includes a number of excellent links to other videos and resources where students can learn more.
Additional Prerequisites
- This video can be accompanied by this Table of Solutions and this video about the many solutions we'll need to address climate change and live sustainably on this planet.
Differentiation
- Advanced students could read more about the rationale behind the video in this scientific paper.
- Science classes could use this video as a hook before making food web posters to explore the roles that organisms play in promoting carbon storage.
- Ecology, biology, and environmental science classes could watch this video when discussing the carbon cycle, keystone species, and population dynamics.
- Social studies classes could discuss the importance of maintaining natural ecosystems for Indigenous cultures and intergenerational justice.
- Other resources on this topic include this video about nature-based solutions to climate change, this biome map activity, and this ecosystem services activity.
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