Transforming Human Poop Into Eco-Friendly Fertilizer

Positives

• This short video is lighthearted with an engaging narrator and provides footage of this ecological sanitation team at work.
• This resource provides an inspiring look at one way that a country has set up a healthy sanitation system while also supporting its own economy.

Additional Prerequisites

• The video has scenes of Haitian children living in poverty. It may be best to review the video and consider how to approach this with students. Asking your students "What might it be like to live without a toilet?" and "How might that feel?" can be good discussion questions.
• There is an ad at the end of the video.
  

Differentiation

• Before watching the video, you can use a KWL chart to have students brainstorm what they already know about both Haiti and fertilizers and then generate questions they have about turning human waste into fertilizer.
• Pair students up to conduct more research on ecological farming practices, using resources such as this subtitled video about the benefits of regenerative farming practices or this resource about ecological farming practices in Spain.