How Green Space Can Boost Your Health

• This brief video describes the benefits of trees and nature to human health. 
• It makes the case for healthy ecosystems and more trees in urban areas to help filter pollutants from the air, capture carbon, and provide shade. 

Positives

• This video illustrates an important climate solution that also benefits human health.
• The video is brief but informative.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• You may have to wait through a commercial to view the video.
• The video effectively ends after 44 seconds, when it transitions to updates on EcoHealth Ontario.

Differentiation

• Science classes could use this as a hook for lessons about photosynthesis and the carbon cycle.
• Biology, anatomy/physiology, and health classes could use this in a lesson about the importance of clean air for respiratory and cardiovascular health.
• Social studies classes could discuss the connection between trees and human health using this lesson plan.
  
• Other resources related to this topic include What Happens if We Cut Down All of a City's Trees and Dear Future Generations: Sorry.
  

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