Positives

• Sir David Attenborough is an articulate narrator who makes this video engaging and easy to follow.

• This resource provides specific, relatable examples of why biodiversity is so important, even focusing on crop production and medicines that originate from plants and fungi.

Additional Prerequisites

• It is important for students to understand what biodiversity is before beginning this video.

• Provide students time to explore the 14 other links within this site in order to enhance learning on this and other related topics.

Differentiation

• While watching the video, ask students to take notes on specific examples of biodiversity loss, the importance of biodiversity, human actions that are causing it, and what we can do about it.
• As an extension, have students use the first link within the text to read more on The Royal Society's website about reversing biodiversity loss and come up with a poster to support their findings.
• Consider having students use this interactive map to learn more about the planet's biodiversity hotspots and discuss relationships that they notice between cities, agricultural areas, and biodiversity.
• This video could be used as a hook for biology classes learning about the diversity of life, evolution, ecosystems, habitat loss, overharvesting wildlife, coral bleaching, or deforestation.
  
• Language arts or science classes could do research projects to do a deeper dive into specific species that are being impacted by human activities and how to protect them.