This video demonstrates the need for a sustainable textile industry, as fast fashion is responsible for many environmental problems, including carbon emissions, water consumption, and water pollution.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This video presents the problems within the fashion industry and includes some possible solutions.
The website gives students the opportunity to learn more about fast fashion and sustainability through a linked podcast called Why It Matters.
Additional Prerequisites
Students must be familiar with climate change, carbon emissions, and sustainable production.
Differentiation
The teacher could ask students to watch this video and try to draw a concept map that includes the keywords from this video.
Students can work with their classmates to try to come up with solutions that will transform the textile industry into a sustainable industry.
Teachers can pause the video to check students' understanding and write the main ideas on the board to help them acquire the information.
One of the galleries in this exhibition features provocative artwork on fast fashion. The artist's name is Guerra de la Paz.
Scientist Notes
This video underscores the need for sustainable textile production. It raises concerns for sustainable textile production and consumption to reduce the global carbon footprint. The resource is factual and recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
MS-ESS3-4 Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.
HS-ESS3-1 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how the availability of natural resources, occurrence of natural hazards, and changes in climate have influenced human activity.
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Economics
D2.Eco.1.6-8 Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
Dimension 2: Geography
D2.Geo.11.9-12 Evaluate how economic globalization and the expanding use of scarce resources contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among countries.
