Positives

• This brief podcast easily lends itself to a lesson plan for a substitute teacher since students can listen to it within one class period.
• Students will hear from two individuals with green careers who discuss the benefits of the "living laboratories" of estuaries and reserves. 
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students will need internet access and headphones if the teacher wishes for them to listen individually.
• There is a transcript included, so students will be able to listen and read along.
• Teachers and students can share the information via social media or access the podcast on various apps.
• Students should be familiar with the term estuary.

Differentiation

• Social studies teachers can have students listen to the podcast and use hard-copy maps to study the locations mentioned in the presentation.
• English or economics teachers can have students work in small groups to research the phrase "blue economy,\" and then create academic paragraphs with examples of blue economies worldwide.
• Students can use the transcript to highlight details to include in a summary or vocabulary they are unfamiliar with.
• This podcast is just one of various topics, videos, articles, and other related links at the top of the webpage, so teachers can access enough information to create an ocean-themed unit.