Biodiversity and Wetlands

 Secondary school, 6th form

 Final task:

Around the world, many young people are getting organized to raise their voice to alert citizens and to demand
local and international authorities to take measures to protect our planet.

You can be part of this brave young people group and start by acting locally. Get in groups and organize a plan to
alert others in your community/country. You could make a Photographic Essay, a Booklet on line, or a video, can it
go viral?

 Class 1:

1. Watch the following video and tell, what is the first emotion that comes to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i21my22C8I

(Hacerlos hacer algo mientras lo miran, - que no sea solo mirarlo-, que a cada escena la unan con algo)

Darle las emociones como para que puedan expresarse y a los mas weak ¿?? (imágenes descargadas)

2. Can you imagine any other possible ending to the situation? If there is hope, how would it be?

3. Look at the picture and complete the chart

What I see.. (A) What I think… (B) What i wonder… (c)

En la parte A ( in English) En la parte b, first conditional (darles las dos partes de la oración condicional para que
la unan-trabajan con cognición, meaning)

c) puede ir en español

4. Research. What are the environmental problems in the area? Share your ideas with the class

 Class 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeUPbGWg2KU

Before watching

1. What does the word wetland suggest to you in Spanish? As a guide T could ask: What does the word “Land”
stand for in Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, England? What about the word wet? It is the opposite of dry, as
in clothing labels dry cleaning

Desierto Llanura Humedal/Pantano

2. Watch the video and select the message in it.

The intention in the video is …

a) To teach us about wetlands and their importance to human life

b) To deliver a lesson on natural sciences

c) To inform us about the importance of wetlands and to invite us to take action to preserve them.

d) To show the importance of wetlands and to say that they are in danger.
(El tipo de actividad en si es dificil , entonces se podria trabajar en otra clase con actividad similar –sobre otro tema
para que lo entiendan, y luego trabajar pero con menos opciones –dos con info parcial y una mas abarcativa- o bien
se les podria pedir que elijan un titulo para el video)

3. The importance of wetlands.

Read the beginning of the following ideas about wetlands and match them to their corresponding ending. Then
watch the video again to check your answers. (From min 2:45 onwards.)

1) The soil and plants in the wetland help to…

2) Another great thing about wet lands is that…

3) Wet lands are also…

4) The decaying plants and animals that are present in the swamp…

5) The best way to have clean water is…

a) …are a source of food for other animals and plants that live there.

b) …home to thousands of species of fish and wildlife, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, anphibia and
shellfish.

c) …clean the water up by filtering it.

d) …if there is a flood wetlands soak it up ( absorb it).

e) … not to pollute it in the first place

Class 3:

1. When you wash your hands or flush the toilet, do you think about where the wastewater goes?

2. Watch the following video and take down notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLbVXaCp4ck&t=1s&ab_channel=ElNueveArgentina

3. Answer with the information you collected

A. Who are the participants in the show?

B. Is there legislation to protect wetlands in Argentina?

C. What problems is the law facing? What interests are at stake?

D. After watching, did you learn something new about wetlands? Write it down.
Darles un propósito para recolectar la información en ingles: con la idea recopilar la info para una publicación en
ingles – en algun ámbito online- que hagan: (con ayuda del traductor)

Un diagnostico de la situación

Un maping, que ubiquen en un mapa la zona, las zonas de humedales

Quienes son los que pueden hacer ( autoridades, legisladores, etc)

Que se puede hacer ( en términos de campañas, )

Class 4

In groups

Around the world, many young people are getting organized to raise their voice to alert citizens and to demand local
and international authorities to take measures to protect our planet.

You can be part of this brave young people group and start by acting locally. Get in groups and organize a plan to
alert others in your community/country.

Start thinking

A) What urgent problems do we have as a community, area, country?

B) Why should we care about it? State importance of the matter. Reasons.

C) How can we tell /warn others? What will we tell others?

D) Which authorities should be taking action?

Imagine you want to raise your voice for the protection of wetlands in your country. You want to be heard locally as
well as internationally, as a way of making your government react and take measures.

You will be posting information. Select the important information you will write in Spanish as well as in English. You
can use the link from the National Geographic for info in English.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wetland

 BIBLIOGRAPHY

 https://jornadasambiente.ar/estrategias-educativo-ambientales-para-favorecer-la-valoracion-social-del-
humedal-de-la-reserva-natural-integral-y-mixta-laguna-de-rocha-en-esteban-echeverria/

 https://www.ecogestos.com/cuenca-matanza-riachuelo-una-de-las-mas-contaminadas-del-mundo/

 https://www.acumar.gob.ar/contaminacion-del-matanza-riachuelo/

 https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ambiente/agua/matanza-riachuelo/desarrollosustentable

este es el link con definición en inglés

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wetland
carpeta con actividades sencillas y algunos textos:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ejcIdNkvH5EYLx0cDQsLmVGzYgtD4n6V?usp=drive_link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJb9BRsLvg

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dbarfi5heXU

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gXsiIndyiAc

video viejito

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeUPbGWg2KU