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The document outlines a Year 8 Global Perspectives lesson focused on biodiversity and ecosystem loss. It includes objectives for defining key terms, understanding biodiversity risks, and exploring ecosystem interconnectivity through group activities centered on different biomes. Students are tasked with researching specific biomes and illustrating their biodiversity, emphasizing the importance of various species and environmental elements.

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Biodiversity

The document outlines a Year 8 Global Perspectives lesson focused on biodiversity and ecosystem loss. It includes objectives for defining key terms, understanding biodiversity risks, and exploring ecosystem interconnectivity through group activities centered on different biomes. Students are tasked with researching specific biomes and illustrating their biodiversity, emphasizing the importance of various species and environmental elements.

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Biodiversity and

Ecosystem Loss
Year 8 Global Perspectives
Lesson Objectives
Define biodiversity
• Understand the indicative signs that
biodiversity is at risk
• Explore the interconnectivity of
ecosystems and biomes
• Consider how species become
introduced
Pair Activity
 Pair students and encourage them to
develop working definitions for the
following vocabulary:
• Biodiversity
• Habitat
 • Species biodiversity.
 • Ecosystem
 • Biome
What is a Biodiversity?
REFLECT
 Why do you think it is good there is rich biodiversity?
 • Consider the geography and species referenced in the
video. What examples can you provide of how a
particular geographic feature or organism is a benefit to
humans?
 • How has human activity reduced biodiversity?
• Why do you think the lion population of Africa has been
reduced?
• Why do you think Europe has experienced such a
dramatic loss of insects?
Group task: Different biomes

 a biome is an ecosystem across a broad geographic region or a major


ecological community type (such as tropical rainforest, grassland, or
desert).
 • Challenge students to create a diagram, map, or illustration of an
assigned biome that includes the interconnectivity of its ecosystem’s
biodiversity.
 • Place students in small working ‘ecosystem’ groups:
 Coral Reef
 Grassland
 Temperate Forest
 Estuary.
 Distribute the following materials to each group:
Coral Reef Biome

 INSTRUCTIONS
 Go to https://coral.org/coral-reefs-101/coral-reef-ecology/coral-reef-
biodiversity/ and learn about coral reefs.
 Collaborate and brainstorm the different species living in a coral reef
and how they contribute to its biodiversity.
 Collaborate to create a map, web, or illustration featuring the
biodiversity of a coral reef.
 Include at least four (4) different species and at least one
environmental element like weather
Grassland Biome

 INSTRUCTIONS Go to https://askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/grassland
and learn about grasslands.
 Collaborate and brainstorm the different species living on a
grassland and how they contribute to its biodiversity.
 Collaborate to create a map, web, or illustration featuring the
biodiversity of a grassland.
 Include at least four (4) different species and at least one
environmental element like weather or geography
Temperate Forest Biome

 INSTRUCTIONS Go to https://nhpbs.org/natureworks/nwep8c.htm and


learn about forests.
 Collaborate and brainstorm the different species living in a temperate
forest and how they contribute to its biodiversity.
 Collaborate to create a map, web, or illustration featuring the
biodiversity of a forest.
 Include at least four (4) different species and at least one
environmental element like weather or geography.
Estuary Biome

 INSTRUCTIONS Go to
http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/estuaries.html and learn about
estuaries.
 Collaborate and brainstorm the different species living in an estuary
and how they contribute to its biodiversity.
 Collaborate to create a map, web, or illustration featuring the
biodiversity of an estuary.
 Include at least four (4) different species and at least one
environmental element like weather or geography.

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