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Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
How Trees Fight Hunger
Provided by: Ecosia |Published on: April 27, 2021
Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
- This Ecosia video is about a forest garden that provides food and income to a family in Senegal.
- The garden is planted among trees and native plants, which helps maintain biodiversity, increases soil health, and provides nutritious food to the family.
Subjects: Biology, Geography
Authors: Ecosia
Region: Africa
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This is a great example of a win-win climate solution that can reduce poverty and hunger, benefit biodiversity, and reduce damaging land use changes, such as deforestation.
- Students will benefit from hearing this personal and triumphant story.
Prerequisites
- You may want to periodically pause the video to make sure your students have time to read the closed captioning and translated text.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Social studies, math, or economics classes could use this resource as a way to discuss personal finances, the financial and social benefits of growing some of your own food, or to estimate a family's annual savings if a home garden was able to supply a certain percentage of their groceries.
- Science classes could use this resource when discussing the carbon cycle, photosynthesis, nutrient cycling, or ecosystems.
- Science classes can also discuss the climate and environmental benefits of biodiversity which is gained from forest gardens like this one and talk about the harmful impacts of monoculture.
- Other resources to consider on this topic include this lesson about regenerative farming, this video about regenerative farming, and this table of solutions to climate change.
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About the Partner Provider
Ecosia
Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees with its ads revenue. They have a YouTube Channel that has educational content as well to further their mission: to regenerate degraded landscapes, support rural communities and establish climate justice, one tree at a time.
All resources can be used for your educational purposes with proper attribution to the content provider.
