Do you know what animal causes more than one million deaths each year? This terrifying animal and how it causes so much death is the subject of a video that also shares how humans can avoid it and the research scientists have conducted that shed light on how to eliminate the animal. The big question is should people eliminate it and what would be the impact on the entire ecosystem?

Concepts

animals, mosquitoes, parasitism, malaria

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Research malaria and the effects of climate change

Classroom Considerations

• Preview any comments that might appear when you show the video on YouTube as they are often inappropriate for the classroom; in this case, there is also a debate about if and when humans have or will surpass mosquitoes as the deadliest animal
• Video best fits into ecology or biology

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Provides a list of further resources in the notes section on YouTube
• Includes closed captioning to help with note taking

Cons

• None