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Threats to Coral Reefs

Provided by: Paleontological Research Institution |Published on: April 27, 2021

Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12

Synopsis

In this video from the Paleontological Research Institution, a 13-year-old student presents what she learned about threats to coral reefs in this video, including invasive species, climate change, overfishing, and pollution.
At the end of the video, she conveys an inspirational message to encourage people to take action and get involved in addressing climate change and protecting coral reefs.

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Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences

Authors: Paleontological Research Institution

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Teaching Materials

Positives

This video contains some links to more resources and videos about climate change.
The video contains interesting scientific diagrams, numbers, and pictures that help the viewer understand the content.
At the end of this video, a message is conveyed to inspire people to take small actions at home to help protect coral reefs.

Prerequisites

Students need to have a basic understanding of the threat to marine organisms from climate change.
The narrator in the video is a 13-year-old girl. She stumbles a few times on her words throughout the video. This video, however, is extremely powerful because she is a young person. Some of your students may connect with this video because the speaker is not an adult.

Differentiation & Implementation

Support group: The teacher can pause the video at each threat to check students' understanding.
Extension Group: Students can be asked to find the connection between warm water and coral bleaching.
The teacher can ask students to complete a quiz about threats to coral reefs on Nearpod or Kahoot to check their knowledge from this video.
Students could be challenged to team up and find other solutions to preserve these important species and explore how scientists are protecting them.
Other recommended resources: Coral Reefs and Global Warming and Steve Palumbi and Megan Morikawa Study Coral Reef Damage in American Samoa.

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About the Partner Provider

Paleontological Research Institution

Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) is a national leader in Earth systems science education. They strive to help make sense of the present and potential future climate change, while also increasing understanding of global change in Earth’s past. Their programs focus on systems thinking, understanding scale and learning in your own backyard.