This video explains the various effects cruise ships have on the environment.
Students learn how badly cruise ships are affecting the environment and ways to mitigate these effects.
Teaching Tips
Positives
It describes the extent to which cruise ships affect the environment in simple terms.
It highlights the need for more eco-friendly policies to govern the operations of cruise ships.
Students learn about Friends of the Earth (FOE).
Additional Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with cruise ships and the fact that it is hard to regulate the activities of ships in international waters.
Differentiation
Teachers could play this video and then ask different groups to provide 3 ways cruise ships can be more environmentally friendly.
Click here for a video on ocean acidification, which is also negatively impacting oceans.
Scientist Notes
This resource provides an impact assessment of cruise ships on the environment. The results are striking and there is a need to set standards and monitor and regulate the activities of cruse ships to reduce carbon emissions. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
D4.7.6-8 Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Reading: Informational Text (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Reading: Science & Technical Subjects (6-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.10 By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
