What the Ocean Gives Us

This three-lesson ESR scheme of work helps your class identify different ways the ocean and other ecosystems provide services for us.

Children are challenged to discuss the different benefits the environment gives us for free and how important these benefits are for sustaining, supporting and enriching our lives. They then investigate how humans may be taking these services for granted, the problems arising from how we are treating the ocean and what actions can be taken to prevent the consequences of these actions.

With lesson plans, slides for the teaching input, differentiated activities and a range of printable resources, this ‘What the Ocean Gives Us’ scheme will encourage discussion within your class and encourage the children to become more aware of the importance of respecting and protecting nature and the environment.

 

What Are Ecosystem Services?

Discover the wealth of services that ecosystems around the world provide humans with to help sustain, support and enrich our lives. Teach your class about some of the services that nature provides us with that they might not even think about on a day-to-day basis, but are essential for the balance of our planet. Challenge the children to think about the kind of services the ocean might provide us with.

This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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What Does the Ocean Give Us?

Investigate further into the many different ways that the ocean provides us with precious ecosystem services. Have your class look further into the different ways the ocean provides us with products, regulates our climate and enriches our lives with inspiration and beauty. Challenge your class to reflect on the importance of these services and discuss which they believe to be the most important service the ocean provides us with.

This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.

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Do We Take the Ocean for Granted?

Having studied the many wonderful ways the ocean provides for us and regulates our climate, challenge your class to think about the consequences of taking some of these services for granted and the effects that pollution is having on the ocean and its ecosystem services. Can the children think like oceanographers and reflect on what might happen if we carry on taking these essential services for granted? Can they think of ways to make sure they’re respecting and caring for our planet’s ocean?

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