Earth: One Amazing Day Movie Guide (G - 2017)

This Earth: One Amazing Day (PG - 2017) Movie Guide challenges students to:

Explore how the Sun influences life by watching its effects on various habitats from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic.
Learn about how animals like Marine Iguanas and Sperm Whales adapt to their environments.
Discuss the challenges faced by animals like Narwhals and Bears and how they manage to overcome them.
Examine how animals like Pandas and Zebras depend on their environments and the consequences of changes in those environments.
Consider how animal parents care for their young, comparing it to human family dynamics.
Reflect on the brief life of a Mayfly and what it teaches us about life’s value.
Debate how human activities impact wildlife and explore ways to live in harmony with nature.

This resource is meant to supplement the viewing of this movie, see the IMDb listing by searching the movie title.

This resource consists of 11 high-level, short answer and essay questions that will do more than just ask your students to regurgitate information.

This product .zip file includes:
-An Answer Key w/ CCSS Alignment (4 Pages)
-A Student Movie Guide (4 Pages)
-A PDF with link to a Google Slides version (1 Page)
CCSS alignment, Admin Movie Request and Permission Slip (2 Pages)
-A free resources and ‘About’ section (8 Pages - Not included in the page count for this product)
**CCSS Note: I’ve taken the liberty of aligning certain reading standards with the act of consuming content via the movie instead. Although students are not reading they are asked to perform the same cognitive functions on the content that they consumed from the movie.

**Distance Learning Tips:

• Distribute the Google Slides version to each student
• Use the screen sharing tool on your group call software to play the movie
• Pause the movie at each question to give students time to write/discuss

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