In this lesson, students explore the impact of climate change on small-scale fishing communities and best practices for building resilience.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students interpret infographics, play a game, and share what they know about the impact of climate change on fishing.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students deepen their understanding of sustainable small-scale fishing through a matching exercise and a tic-tac-toe research activity.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students create a mural to educate others about the importance of supporting sustainable, small-scale fishing.

Positives

• This lesson builds on lesson 1 of the Cambio Climático y la Pesca unit by providing real-life examples of what students experienced in the role-playing game, El Juego de Peces.

• The authentic texts, game, and student choice in this lesson engage students in discovering new information while developing their Spanish language skills and increasing their capacity for intercultural understanding.

• In this lesson, students are invited to explore the topic of gender equity through data and by listening to the voices of women in the small-scale fishing industry.

Additional Prerequisites

• This is lesson 2 of 3 in our Cambio Climático y la Pesca unit.

• To successfully navigate this lesson, students should be at an intermediate-low proficiency level.

• Students familiar with the imperfect tense will be prepared to understand the interviews in the videos in which fisher people describe their childhoods.

• Students with the ability to use the present subjunctive will have the opportunity to employ this concept to express recommendations, doubts, and perspectives.

Differentiation

• The Conecto game in the Inquire section can be played in small groups or pairs by sharing the link with students.

• Students may want to watch the video in the Inquire section one time with the closed captions off and then again with the Spanish closed captions on.

• The tic-tac-toe activity in the Investigate section can be assigned as a graded mini-project or as un-graded collaborative classwork.

• The mural can be painted directly on a wall, or students can use a long sheet of bulletin board paper.

• After completing this lesson, advanced students can research small-scale fishing in their own community and record an AP-style cultural comparison presentation.

In this lesson, students explore how climate change is changing industrial fishing. This lesson passes our scientific review process.

En esta lección, los estudiantes exploran cómo el cambio climático está cambiando la industria pesquera. Esta lección pasa nuestro proceso de revisión científica.

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Supporting Standards

• Science
  • LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
    • HS-LS2-6. Evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
    • HS-LS2-7. Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity.