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Exercise 2. Documentary Video Production: (I'll Send The Video in Separate File)

The document contains instructions for students to complete two assignments. The first assignment asks student groups to create a 10-minute documentary video highlighting biodiversity in a local ecosystem, its benefits, and community conservation efforts. The second assignment requires students to read an article on why biodiversity is important for food security, identify difficult concepts, discuss what they learned, and answer discussion questions about maintaining food security through sustainable agriculture and landscape management. The lesson also discusses genetically modified organisms and gene therapy.

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Exercise 2. Documentary Video Production: (I'll Send The Video in Separate File)

The document contains instructions for students to complete two assignments. The first assignment asks student groups to create a 10-minute documentary video highlighting biodiversity in a local ecosystem, its benefits, and community conservation efforts. The second assignment requires students to read an article on why biodiversity is important for food security, identify difficult concepts, discuss what they learned, and answer discussion questions about maintaining food security through sustainable agriculture and landscape management. The lesson also discusses genetically modified organisms and gene therapy.

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Exercise 2.

Documentary Video Production


Instructions: In groups with up to seven members each, prepare a 10-minute documentary
video that highlights the biodiversity in the ecosystem, its benefits to the community, and
the efforts carried out by the community to manage, protect, and preserve it.

(I’ll send the video in separate file)

Assignment 2. Metacognitive Reading Report


Instruction: Read T.C.H. Sunderland’s' article entitled Food security: Why is biodiversity
important? Retrieved from http://www.legato-project.net/NPDOCS/13-3-IFR-copy.pdf (The
instructor may send a copy thru email)
Then, accomplish the metacognitive reading report format below.

1. Difficult concepts
a) The concept I found difficult to understand was how they conserve biodiversity and
food security.
b) The concept I found difficult to understand was how the ecologists do and
conservation biologists fulfill the production requirements.
c) The concept I found difficult to understand was how they maintain diversity within
agricultural systems.

2. Learning insights
a) Before reading the article, I thought that a forest has no contribution in food security.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that forest represent an
important repository of food and other resources that can play a key role in contributing
towards food security, especially if integrated into complex systems that are managed for
multiple benefits.

b) Before reading the article, I thought that food security always equate to nutritional
security.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that food security does not
always equate to nutritional security because even if food availability is satisfactory, the
attainment of human well-being is closely related to access to wider environmental health
such as access to clean water, sanitation and diverse productive ecosystems.
c) Before reading the article, I thought that it is easy to maintain the food security and
conservation of biodiversity.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that it is not easy to achieve
because in order for this to happen, conservation and restoration in human dominated
ecosystems must strengthen connections between agriculture and biodiversity. Managing
landscapes on a multi-functional basis that combines food production, biodiversity
conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem services should be at the forefront at efforts
to achieve food security.

3. Discussion Questions
a) What systems approach will they use in order to maintain the food security?
b) What programme of work on managing landscapes and ecosystems for biodiversity
conservation and food security would they implement to achieve more sustainable
agricultural systems?
c) How will they sustain and utilize the food security?

Lesson 3 Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and Gene Therapy


This lesson discusses the moral and ethical issues concerning GMOs and their
impacts on society.
It also sheds light on the various forms and applications of gene therapy.

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