FernGully Movie Guide (Conservation and Natural Resources)

Following the FernGully movie guide will utilize both writing and science concepts (conservation, natural resources, pollution and human interaction), for students to provide evidence of how these concepts are used. Using movie guides in the classroom can make content interactive and more relatable for your class. Movies bring lessons to life by showing science concepts and even social issues in an entertaining way. Movie guides help students focus on important details throughout the movie and think critically about what they watch.

Movie Synopsis: Crysta is a fairy who lives in FernGully, a rainforest in Australia, and has never seen a human before. Growing up, she is told humans no longer exist. When a logging company comes near the rainforest, to cut down the trees for human use, she sees that they do exist and she even meets one! Crysta accidentally shrinks one of the workers - a boy named Zak. Now as small as a fairy, Zak sees the damage that the company does (and humans do) and helps Crysta stop the company and an evil entity, named Hexxus. Hexxus feeds off pollution that the humans are creating. Many species are introduced throughout the movie and can be used to discuss ecosystems, if needed.

Speaking and listening standards are also covered, depending on how many of the above topics you discuss in your classroom. The movie guide provides an opportunity for teachers to "get back" some of that class time at the end of a unit, whether needed for grading projects, working one on one with students, or finishing up assessments. Other students are engaged and still actively searching for the topics covered in the unit discussed.

The activities provided allow for:

• Class discussion

• Small group discussion

• Informal assessment

Movie Rating: G

Grades: 3rd - 5th

File type: PDF

Pages: 5, including cover, teacher notes, student guide, answer key and closing page