Mission Blue (Netflix Documentary) Movie Viewing Guide

This product is a viewing guide to the Netflix documentary movie “Mission Blue” about the life and work of Dr. Sylvia Earle, an oceanographer and marine biologist.  The viewing guide is 30 questions: some are fill in the blank, some are short short answer questions asking students to record significant statistics from the documentary, reason cause and effect, or relationships between concepts elaborated in the film. Use this worksheet in your Earth or Environmental Science or Ocean/Marine Science class to keep students engaged and paying attention throughout the movie. This movie is great to use in conjunction with topics such as about the ocean, aquatic pollution, ecosystems, overfishing, coral reefs, and climate change and is appropriate for students ranging from middle school to high school age. This document can be printed and used for in-person class or distributed digitally for online learning, in a synchronous or asynchronous lesson. An answer key is provided for teacher use. 

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