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Description
This video illustrates how to address biodiversity through Education for Sustainable Development and mobilize teachers and students to reflect on biodiversity issues.
It outlines the importance of biodiversity to humans in providing for medicines, shelter, food and clothing and demonstrates the links between our consumption patterns and the loss of biodiversity; the rate of loss; and the need to preserve biodiversity for future generations.
The program addresses the combination of increased production of goods, rise in population, and climate change as responsible for current rate of loss of biodiversity. It suggests that individuals can contribute to maintaining biodiversity by adopting a more sustainable lifestyle and that education can help us understand how our actions have global ramifications.
It concludes with an example of how students might take action to promote forest sustainability.
General Assessment
Recommendation of how and where to use it
The video represents an overview of biodiversity- value of, loss of. maintenance of - and therefore is best used as an introduction to the topic. A number of curriculum units and outcomes deal with biodiversity. The grade 10 Science curriculum in most provinces and territories includes a unit on maintaining ecosystems; Environmental Science/Studies courses examine a number of issues related to biodiversity; a number of Geography units on resource management or human-environmental interaction include outcomes on sustainable development of the planet's resources.
Student study of biodiversity also provides an excellent opportunity to teach the concepts of system thinking and sustainable development. Finally, the video introduces an example of possible student action in support of biodiversity and therefore may be used as a starting point for greater student action in this regard.
Relevant Curriculum Units
The following tool will allow you to explore the relevant curriculum matches for this resource. To start, select a province listed below.
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- British Columbia
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- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 12: Living sustainably supports the well-being of self, community, and Earth.
- Social Studies
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- Human Geography 12: Human activities alter landscapes in a variety of ways.
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
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- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- Advanced Environmental Science 120:Introduction to the human sphere
- Introduction to Environmental Science 120: Sustainable Development
- Geography
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- Canadian Geography 120: Patterns and Systems in the Human and Natural World
- Newfoundland & Labrador
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- Grade 10
- Grade 11
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- Science
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- Science 2200: Ecosytems
- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 3205: Introduction to Environmental Science
- Geography
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- World Geography 3200/3202: Ecosystems
- Nova Scotia
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- Grade 10
- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- AP Environmental Science: The Living World: Biodiversity
- Ontario
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- Grade 9
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- Geography
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- Issues in Canadian Geography (Academic): Interactions in the Physical Environment
- Grade 11
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science (Workplace Prep.) Human Impact on the Environment
- Environmental Science (Workplace Prep.) Natural Resource Science and Management
- Geography
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- Regional Geography (Univ./College Prep.): Sustainability and Stewardship
- Grade 12
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- Geography
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- Global Connections
- The Environment & Resource Management (Univ./College Prep) : Ecological Systems: Interactions and Interdependence
- The Environment & Resource Management (Univ./College Prep.):Sustainability and Stewardship of Natural Resources
- The Environment & Resource Management (Workplace Preparation): Human-Environment Interactions
- The Environment & Resource Management (Workplace Prfeparation)
- World Issues: A Geographic Analysis (College Prep.):Sustainability and Stewardship
- World Issues: A Geographic Analysis (Univ. Prep.):Sustainability and Stewardship
- Prince Edward Island
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- Grade 10
- Grade 11
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- Geography
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- Geography 521A, Global Studies: Physical Patterns of the World
- Geography 531A (World Geography): Physical Patterns of the World
- Grade 12
- Step 3Select a subject
- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 621A: Introduction to Environmental Science
- Geography
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- What can I do?
- Geography 621A Global Issues
- Geography 621A Global Issues : Inquiry- What are the issues?
- Geography 631A Global Issues: What Can I Do?
- Quebec
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- Grade 10
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- Science & Technology
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- Applied Science & Technology:The Living World
- Science & Technology:The Living World
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon Territory
- Step 2Select a grade level
- Grade 12
- Step 3Select a subject
- Environmental Science
- Step 4Relevant matches
- Environmental Science 12: Living sustainably supports the well-being of self, community, and Earth.
- Social Studies
- Step 4Relevant matches
- Human Geography 12: Human activities alter landscapes in a variety of ways.
Themes Addressed
Citizenship (1)
- Community-Building and Participation
Ecosystems (1)
- Biodiversity
