The Planet and Our Plates

Positives

• This video highlights the effects of industrial agriculture on various communities that are disproportionately impacted by industrial agriculture facilities.
• It includes topics such as traditional ecological knowledge and mangroves as important carbon sinks.
• The many topics and subtopics are broken down by timestamp for the teacher or viewer to easily navigate.

Additional Prerequisites

• Those who want to use this resource need to answer questions and provide an email address to get an access link and password.
• Students may need the terms industrial, prevalent, aquaculture, biodiversity, land degradation, terrestrial, carbon sinks and others defined, prior to watching the lesson.
• Scrolling below the video will take you to the additional resources that can accompany this video.Of these resources, the quiz and homework answer keys are not accessible.
• Day two of the provided lesson plan includes a link to a climate change food calculator. This link isn't clickable, however a collection of climate change food calculators can be found on our site.

Differentiation

• This lesson introduces many topics that students may want to research either independently, or as a class, such as the industrial revolution, the westernization of diets across the globe, or genetically modified foods.
• Students may benefit from guided notes, provided at the bottom of the screen, to fill out while watching the lesson or frequent pausing to discuss, to increase student engagement.
• Students can discuss individual actions vs. larger-scale actions that can be taken in agriculture and personal food choices to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from food.
• Consider using this other resource on our site about the impacts of food production globally to have students further investigate the land, water, and resources used to produce various foods.