Some of our Year 7 and 8 Geography students have had the opportunity to attend virtual live lessons hosted by the World Wildlife Fund, looking at ‘A Life on Our Planet’. The sessions were designed to show students the interlinking components of our world and the way humans are using resources found within it. Here’s what they thought of the experience:
Harvey M said: “In the session we learnt how we can help sustain a high biodiversity on our planet. We learnt how climate change and global warming affects the world and how we can stop some species going extinct”.
It enabled students to explore extreme environments such as the rainforest, coral reefs and ice caps. They were able to ask questions and consider how they have a chance to change the future.
Rajveer M reflected: “Humans are not living sustainable lives as we are cutting down trees and overfishing. This causes extinction whereas we need the biodiversity to live a happy and colourful life”.
And Ellis R could see the longer term issues: ‘The thing that shocked me about the presentation was that we have already deforested half our rainforests. I thought this was terrible because we get so many resources for our lives from it. Also, trees give off oxygen and absorb CO2, which helps our environment”.
But it wasn’t all doom and gloom. Students were introduced to actions that could be taken and opportunities yet to explore. As Tom Bicknell said: “Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is ocean and there is still 80% of the ocean to explore”.
Head of Geography, Mrs Wood said the feedback from the students has been so positive, the department will be doing more experiences like this in the future.
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