Exploring Mangroves
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Provided by: Earth Cubs|Published on: October 27, 2025
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Synopsis
- In this presentation from Earth Cubs, students will learn all about mangroves and the ecosystem services they provide.
- Students will understand how mangroves provide coastal protection, water filtration, emissions sequestration, and a variety of other benefits.
Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Earth Cubs, Earthna, Eco-Schools Qatar
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- Images in these slides keep students engaged with the content.
- Bolded vocabulary terms make for built-in vocabulary acquisition opportunities.
Prerequisites
- Depending on their familiarity with mangroves, climate change, and related topics, students may need some terms defined, such as biodiversity, endangered species, carbon dioxide, sustainable, and aerial.
- Students should understand climate change and its impacts, especially on coastal regions.
Differentiation & Implementation
- To demonstrate their understanding and create a personal anchor chart, students can draw pictures of mangroves and illustrate or write the reasons they are beneficial for the ecosystem.
- Using the final slide as a call to action, students can plan an informational campaign to spread information about mangroves to other students and adults in their school.
- This resource was created to connect students to the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 14, Life Below Water, and Goal 15, Life on Land. Teachers can introduce students to these goals and the other SDGs using this curriculum guide.
- Older students may benefit from this unit about how climate change impacts coastal regions to understand the importance of mangroves for coastal protection.
This pictorial resource introduces students to mangroves. In addition to presenting the biological adaptations that allow mangroves to survive the coastal environment, the ecosystem functions of mangroves are also discussed. This resource skillfully ties together biodiversity, ecotourism, and climate change mitigation, and is recommended for teaching.
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