How much do your students know about different communities and cultures and how they use the natural resources they have in their own environments? Do your students know how important it is to be able to understand the effects we as humans have on the resources we depend on and how communities need to communicate and work together to live in a more sustainable way?
Chris Bartlett and Taloa Village in Vanuatu , South Pacific will tell you all about the efforts they are making to use the resources they depend on in a sustainable way in A Solwata Story!
This documentary takes place in a small village community in Vanuatu called Taloa Village. Taloa Village is an island community that has depended on the immediate natural resources on Nguna Island for hundreds of years. Although Taloa Village has always had specific laws in place to protect their environment, due to a population increase, Taloa Village began to recognize that the impact of their community on their immediate marine environment was becoming too high. As a community they have taken action to protect and conserve their resources so that they will last for future generations by using old traditional methods in combination with the help of Peace Corps volunteer and biologist, Christopher Bartlett, to use scientific conservation processes to support their traditional laws. Some of the systems of management that are now in place are reef monitoring and protection; sea turtle tagging; trochus breeding; implementing a community awareness program; and coral mariculture. Not only is Taloa Village a great example of how to protect and use marine resources in a sustainable way, they have much to teach us about how to use water, soil and other natural resources in a sustainable and healthy way! Key points you will learn about with this project:
- Geography of the Pacific and Vanuatu
- The culture and way of life of Taloa Village Community
- Taloa Vilage Communities relationship with land resources: food, water and housing
- Sustainable agriculture and island resource use
- Local government structures
- Ocean environments
- What a coral reef is and why it is important
- Protection of marine resources
- How the Marine Protected Areas receives income to continue their work
- How the project affects the local community and provides an example to the rest of the world
Download Instructions: 'Solwota Story', the Nguna-Pele Marine Protected Area Documentary, is a 60 minute long documentary split into 4 movies and made up of 11 sequences. The beginning of each sequence is titled and each end has a 'BREAK'. There is a worksheet for each sequence but we have tied the movies and worksheets together, so for example the first movie is sequences 1-3 and you must use the corresponding worksheets 1-3 that can be found directly under the 'Movie 1' link. The 'Movie 2' link is followed by the corresponding worksheets 4-6 and so on.
To access the movie files, click on the movie links below to download the film.
In order to save the movie file to your computer right click and choose ‘save target’. Choose a location on your computer where you can conveniently locate it. The download will take anywhere from 15 to 40 minutes depending on the speed of your connection. If it is going to take you longer than that and you would like to order a hard copy of the video for a small fee to cover the costs of materials please fill in this form. To download all word and PDF documents to your computer you can right click and choose 'Save Target As' and save them to a location on your computer.
Nguna-Pele Marine Protected Area Information Packet (PDF 204KB)
Solwota Story Documentary:
Movie 1: Sequences 1-3 (52MB movie file, 16 minutes)
Sequence 1: Introduction
Sequence 2: Way of Life
Sequence 3: Food, Air, Water and Shelter
MPA Video and Information Packet Worksheets 1-3 (word document KB) -student version (blank)
MPA Video and Information Packet Answer Keys 1-3 (word document 72KB) -teacher version (contains questions, an answer key and some comments and discussion)
Movie 2: Sequences 4-6 (47MB movie file, 14 minutes)
Sequence 4: Living with the Sea
Sequence 5: Adapting to Change
Sequence 6: Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
MPA Video and Information Packet Worksheets 4-6 (word document 44KB) -student version (blank)
MPA Video and Information Packet Answer Keys 4-6 (word document 56KB) -teacher version (contains questions, an answer key and some comments and discussion)
Movie 3: Sequences 7-9 (50MB movie file, 15 minutes)
Sequence 7: Reef Closures and Monitoring
Sequence 8: Stewardship
Sequence 9: Turtle Tagging
MPA Video and Information Packet Worksheets 7-9 (word document 36KB) -student version (blank)
MPA Video and Information Packet Answer Keys 7-9 (word document 40KB) -teacher version (contains questions, an answer key and some comments and discussion)
Movie 4: Sequences 10-11 (42MB, 13 minutes)
Sequence 10: Awareness and Tourism
Sequence 11: Conclusion
MPA Video and Information Packet Worksheets 10-11 (word document 35KB) -student version (blank)
MPA Video and Information Packet Answer Keys 10-11 (word document 40KB) -teacher version (contains questions, an answer key and some comments and discussion)
To find supportive links and more information please visit our resource link for the ‘Nguna-Pele Marine Protected Area ’.
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