How Climate Change Affects Great White Sharks

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Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Biology, Earth and Space Sciences

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What it is

This video from NowThis Earth describes the impact of climate change on great white sharks and the marine ecosystem.
Students learn the effect of ocean warming on great white shark migration and the ripple effects on sea animals in those areas.

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Positives

The video includes text to aid student understanding.
By watching this video, students can clearly understand the relationships between different animals in an ecosystem.

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with marine ecosystems.
Students should also understand climate change.

Differentiation & Implementation

Teachers can use this video to explain how climate change is affecting ecosystems.
Teachers can play this video before a group activity on ways to conserve marine ecosystems.
Teachers can use this video to highlight the effects of the marine heat wave of 2014.
Click here for a resource on climate change and the oceans.
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From the scientist review

This resource describes the impact of climate change on juvenile sharks, sea otters, sea lions, migration, and survival of marine resources. Students can gain knowledge and motivation to take climate action to conserve the marine ecosystem. This is recommended for teaching.

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Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences
Format: YouTube Video
Language: English
Location: Earth
Provider: NowThis Earth
Authors: NowThis Earth
Published: April 27, 2021
Last updated: July 16, 2026
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Standards alignment · CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.5 + 5 more

Connecticut Climate Education Hub

Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.5Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.6Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, identifying important issues that remain unresolved.

Connecticut Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

MS-LS2-1.Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
MS-LS2-4.Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
HS-LS2-6.Evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
HS-LS2-A.Ecosystems have carrying capacities, which are limits to the numbers of organisms and populations they can support. These limits result from such factors as the availability of living and nonliving resources and from such challenges such as predation, competition, and disease. Organisms would have the capacity to produce populations of great size were it not for the fact that environments and resources are finite. This fundamental tension affects the abundance (number of individuals) of species in any given ecosystem. (HS-LS2-1), (HS-LS2-2)

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