Annie Leonard has put together a fantastic 20 minute (free) video summary of where our ‘stuff’ comes from and where it ends up. She has since put out a variety of these short but succinct videos, many of which are very helpful in the classroom. I use this in a unit on the environment. It has been dubbed into Spanish, but because the level is quite high I usually show it in both English and Spanish. I make no excuses for finding ways of showing this to all my students!
There are many ways you can use it, but one thing that I did was take the attached interview, and use it as a mostly gap fill exercise, supplemented by questions on the reading. I adapted the interview from this web page (http://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/article16811.html). The English version of the video is found here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM) and the Spanish version I used is found here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykfp1WvVqAY).
Resource Attachment: La Historia de las Cosas – Entrevista
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