Positives

• The video includes interesting footage of the ocean, sea life, and researchers.
• The tone of the video is hopeful but urgent.
• It provides young girls with a female role model who made a career in the sciences and started her own nonprofit organization to support her passions.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• The full documentary is available to stream on Netflix.
• Have students check out the map of Hope Spots located all over the planet to see what Mission Blue has accomplished.
  

Differentiation

• This video can be a great introduction to lessons about ocean ecosystems, the impacts of climate change on the ocean, and ocean conservation.
• Use this video to discuss climate activism and career paths, like oceanography, that can help save our planet.
• Dr. Sylvia Earle describes how growing up near the Gulf of Mexico fostered her love for the ocean. Have students write about how nature has affected their life in a positive way.
• Social studies classes can discuss why Dr. Earle felt it was necessary to quit her job with the NOAA in order to fight to protect the ocean more effectively.
• Biology classes can use this video as a hook for lessons about biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation.