Positives

• This video highlights some interesting effects of climate change that could help balance out some of the losses of mangroves from other human activities or excessive saltwater intrusion.
• The term "blue carbon" is highlighted, which helps students understand the importance of protecting coastal habitats.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar the concept of increasingly severe weather as an effect of climate change.
• The additional short video provides an example of the power of mangroves to absorb wave energy, which could be replicated in a class experiment or demonstration.
  

Differentiation

• Consider having students research weather patterns in Florida over the past few decades to understand the causes of changing ecosystems.
• Have students pair up to discuss the potential pros and cons of expanded mangrove forests along the Florida coast.
• Biology and environmental science classes could use this resource to discuss the benefits of mangrove forests as hotspots of biodiversity, carbon sequestration powerhouses, coastal storm protectors, and water filtering plants.
  
• Other resources related to this topic include The Solution to Climate Change is All Around Us and A Natural Solution to Climate Change.