Year 8 Geography

Issues in the Oceans

 Is our use of ocean resources sustainable?
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the Session students will be able to:

• Research and analyze: Is our use of Ocean resources

sustainable?
• Collaborate: together to criticize human's impact on the
oceans.
• Design Poster to categorize how humans use and affect
oceans.
• Watch the following video and answer the hands up or freeze
activity.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx04Kl8y4dE
Hands up or freeze activity:
• Rules:
• - if the sentence is true hands up.
• If the sentence is false put your hands down and freeze.
• If you talk while playing the game you will be excluded from the
game.
Questions:
1. Sustainability is about meeting the needs
of the present only.
• 1. Sustainability is about meeting the
needs of the present only.

False
It is about meeting the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of the future generation to meet
their own needs.
2. The basic needs are about food, housing and water.
2. The basic needs are about food, housing and water.

True
As they are the main sources of living
3. Sustainability is about cutting a tree and building a house.
3. Sustainability is about cutting a tree and building a house.

False

Sustainability is about cutting a tree and growing another one.

4. Equilibrium means to have an unequal rate of replacement.
4. Equilibrium means to have an unequal rate of replacement.

• False

• Equilibrium is about having an equal rate of replacement so we can

have sustainability.
5. Plastic pollution is one of the excessive
consumptions caused by humans.
5. Plastic pollution is one of the excessive
consumptions caused by humans.

• True

The majority of plastic pollution in the ocean is caused by littering:

we buy or use disposable plastic items.
What does ocean sustainability mean?
• Ocean sustainability is all about approaching ocean management
in a way that protects it and the services it provides. The oceans are
essential to planet earth, and the coastal areas, in particular,
contain a wide range of different habitats and ecosystems.
1,2,5 Activity
Activity outcomes:
Search the internet to analyze how do humans use and impact the oceans?
Steps: (Part 1)
Every student will receive a spider diagram to do the following:
1. Individually try to develop at least five different ideas on your own about how
do humans use and impact the oceans? (6 mins)
2. Share your idea with a partner (Pair work) (5 mins)
5. In groups exchange ideas until you have at least 15 ideas in your diagrams. (5
mins)
(Part 2)
Once completed, On a coloured paper design a poster to classify these uses and
impacts into different categories, such as goods, services, and impacts on marine
animals. (15 mins)
To summarize what we discussed;
How humans impact on the oceans?
Human activities affect marine life and marine habitats through;
• overfishing
• habitat loss
• the introduction of invasive species
• ocean pollution
• ocean acidification and ocean warming
How are humans using the oceans?
• Ocean-related industries such as fishing, tourism, transportation.
• Fresh water
• Food
• medicine
• Renewable energy
Self-Assessment:
• write in your copybooks two ways in which humans use the oceans
and two impacts humans have on oceans.
Homework:
• Reading text about sustainability and related questions.