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How Green Space Can Boost Your Health
Provided by:
EcoHealth Ontario
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Published on:
April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
This brief video from EcoHealth Ontario 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.
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Subjects:
Biology, Health
Authors:
EcoHealth Ontario
Region:
North America, Global
Languages:
English
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Positives
This video illustrates an important climate solution that also benefits human health.
The video is brief but informative.
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 & Implementation
Science classes can use this as a hook for lessons about photosynthesis and the carbon cycle.
Biology, anatomy/physiology, and health classes can use this in a lesson about the importance of clean air for respiratory and cardiovascular health.
Social studies classes can 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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