Biodiversity – what is the future?

1. Wednesday 21st September 2011 Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity is critical to human well-being. - To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved. - To prepare for ‘Biodiversity Under Threat’ topic test by reviewing past paper questions. Biodiversity – what is the future?

2. Starter Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity is critical to human well-being. - To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved. “Poverty and biodiversity are intimately linked.” [UN Development Programme] Create a spider diagram around this phrase explaining why they are linked, and how.

3. Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity is critical to human well-being. - To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved.

4. Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity is critical to human well-being. - To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved.

5. Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity is critical to human well-being.- To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA)scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved. • 1] Teacher led notes on the following: • Biodiversity futures - scenarios 2] Student Activities focussed on the future for biodiversity. Read pg.’s 130 to 133 in the A2 textbook and complete the following tasks: 1. Which Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deals explicitly with biodiversity. 2. Give examples of other MDGs where the sustainable management of biodiversity is also key. 3.What is the Convention on Biological Diversity? 4. Complete partcof the synoptic question on pg. 133.

6. Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity is critical to human well-being. - To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved. Practice Question:- January 2010 Unit 3, Qu. 3 parts a & b. Plan answers through mark scheme activity, i.e.

7. Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity critical to human well-being. - To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved.

8. Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity is critical to human well-being. - To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved. VIDEO EXERCISE Watch the BBC documentary ‘The State of the Planet – Is there a Crisis?’Take notes on the scientific evidence that suggests that many of the world’s ecosystems are in crisis. http://www.youtube.com/user/MartianSanta

9. EXTENSION: “Human well-being and sustainable yields are interlinked.” Using examples from the case study on mangroves discuss whether you agree.

10. Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity is critical to human well-being. - To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved. ASSIGNMENT Revise for Topic Test ‘Biodiversity Under Threat’ (40 mins.) Long-answer question split into parts a) & b), worth 25 marks. [Test: 28th Sept. 2011]

11. Plenary “The main threats to biodiversity are ………………….” Go around class in turn, adding information without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Objectives: - To understand that the sustainable management of biodiversity is critical to human well-being. - To analyse the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) scenarios and assess which one is most likely to be achieved.