Designing Solutions to Preserve Biodiversity

In this collaborative activity, students explore major biodiversity threats and design, present, and refine solutions for preserving biodiversity. They also consider the roles of local partners and potential constraints in developing and implementing their solutions.

The activity focuses on the five threats to biodiversity represented by the acronym HIPPO (habitat loss, invasive species, pollution, population growth, and overharvesting). The activity also leverages Wild Hope, a series of short films that highlight species and ecosystems threatened by biodiversity loss, as well as people working to protect them.

The “Educator Materials” provide more information on implementing the student materials for this activity: the “Student Handout,” the “Hawaiian Monk Seal Comic,” and the “HIPPO Expert Team Information Sheets.” An optional “Slide Deck” with images from the “Information Sheets”  is also provided.

The “Resource Google Folder” link directs to a Google Drive folder of resource documents in the Google Docs format. Not all downloadable documents for the resource may be available in this format. The Google Drive folder is set as “View Only”; to save a copy of a document in this folder to your Google Drive, open that document, then select File → “Make a copy.” These documents can be copied, modified, and distributed online following the Terms of Use listed in the “Details” section below, including crediting BioInteractive.