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This lesson plan aims to teach middle school students about the impacts of fishing on marine life through a series of activities. Students will investigate different fish species, learn about types of pollution affecting fish habitats, and how climate change is disrupting ocean food chains. They will then create a poster about sustainable fishing rules to help ensure fish populations remain abundant while considering human impacts. The lesson supports the UN's Sustainable Development Goal of conserving ocean life through responsible stewardship of marine resources.

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Lesson Plan Impacts of Fishing AU

This lesson plan aims to teach middle school students about the impacts of fishing on marine life through a series of activities. Students will investigate different fish species, learn about types of pollution affecting fish habitats, and how climate change is disrupting ocean food chains. They will then create a poster about sustainable fishing rules to help ensure fish populations remain abundant while considering human impacts. The lesson supports the UN's Sustainable Development Goal of conserving ocean life through responsible stewardship of marine resources.

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Middle Level

Impacts of
Fishing
A Lesson Plan Featuring Britannica
School
Lesson Plan: Impacts of Fishing Britannica School

Lesson Overview
Subject Ocean Conservation

Level Middle

Duration 4-5 Class Periods of 45 minutes

Description/Aim Students investigate different species of fish, the act


of fishing and draw links between human impact and
fish survival.

Materials Internet Connection


Various Worksheets (included)
Poster Paper

Lesson Objectives
Gain a better understanding of global Find new meaning through the
issues information they discover
Identify current key issues that exist Share their learning with their local
within the climate change problem community and the wider world

This lesson refers to articles and media taken from Britannica School,
the go-to site for safe, comprehensive student research. Contact your
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Lesson Background

Impacts of Fishing
In 2015, world leaders agreed The following lesson will teach This lesson supports UN
to 17 goals for a better world students about the responsible Sustainable Development
by 2030. The United Nations stewardship of our oceans and Goal 14: Life Below Water,
Sustainable Development rivers by analysing the impact which aims to conserve
Goals, as they are known, of fishing on marine life. and sustainably use the
address global challenges like oceans, seas and marine
poverty, inequality and climate It will lead students towards resources for sustainable
change and serve as a deeper connections, development.
blueprint to a more sustainable understanding and ultimately
future. action.

As a global education leader, As the call for sustainable


working to support students in change grows around the
becoming lifelong learners and world, ensure that your
citizens of the world, Britannica students are informed,
educators have partnered with engaged and prepared to
the United Nations Global tackle one of the most
Goals to call upon schools, important issues facing their
educators and students to generation.
amplify, reflect and act on
these challenges that affect
every one of us.
Lesson Plan: Impacts of Fishing Britannica School

Step-by-Step Procedures

1. Why do we go Fishing?
Read the 'Fishing' article↗ found in Britannica
School and identify facts about fishing. Complete
the Facts About Fishing worksheet.
→

Facts About Fishing worksheet [PDF]

2. Pollution and Fishing


What types of pollution affects fish habitats?
Read the 'Water Pollution' article↗ and watch
the 'Pacific Ocean; Plastic Pollution' video↗
found in Britannica School.

Complete the Cause and Effect worksheet


identifying types of pollution and the effects of the
pollution on water and fish habitats.
→

Cause and Effect worksheet [PDF]

3. Climate Change
The 'Fish Stock Reduction' video↗ explains how
climate change is affecting fish numbers. The
interviewee identifies changes in food chains due
to an increase in water temperature as a result of
climate change. Examine the 'Food Chain'
article↗ and the 'Food Chain: Ocean Food
Chain' image↗. All found in Britannica School.

Use the Food Chain Disturbance Tool (the link is in


the worksheet below) to hypothesise a
disturbance to the ocean food chain from above.
Complete the Food Chain Disturbance worksheet.
→

Food Chain Disturbance worksheet [PDF]


Lesson Plan: Impacts of Fishing Britannica School

4. Fishing Rules
Using the knowledge gained from the previous
activities, create a Sustainable Fishing Rules
poster that includes a list of rules that fishermen
should adhere to, to ensure fish populations remain
abundant.

Extension Task
Students select an ocean organism and explore the relationship
between environmental factors and the organism’s adaptations.

Examine abiotic factors that influence the physical and


behavioural adaptations.

Assessment
Various annotated work samples Observation of the students
such as Cause and Effect chart or participating in the lesson and their
the Sustainable Fishing Rules. contribution to group discussions.
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