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A specialist documentary resource shop featuring worksheets and challenge activities to support learning and thinking around educational documentaries. Resources are created by an experienced geography teacher and subject leader. Last updated21 March 2022A 30 question worksheet and follow on sheet to support Breaking Boundaries: The Science of our Planet (Netflix Documentary). David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earths biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted. The programme explores the impacts on earths life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world.The worksheet has 30 questions that cover the full 1hr 15 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet for teachers. There is a differentiated follow on worksheet for students to complete to think further around this topic.Questions on the worksheet includes the following topics:HoloceneBiosphereFreshwaterOcean acidificationEnergy useExtreme weather events - droughtsClimate changeDeforestationFor worksheets to support other science and nature documentaries please see my shop.Tes paid licenceHow can I reuse this?Select overall rating(no rating)Your rating is required to reflect your happiness.Write a reviewUpdate existing reviewIts good to leave some feedback.Something went wrong, please try again later.This resource hasnt been reviewed yetTo ensure quality for our reviews, only customers who have purchased this resource can review itReport this resourceto let us know if it violates our terms and conditions. Our customer service team will review your report and will be in touch.Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet is a documentary about the end of the world. It focuses on nine planetary thresholds, outlined by the Swedish scientist and environmental science professor Johan Rockstrom, which, if exceeded, will make life on Earth no longer sustainable. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the perennial voice of the British nature doc, Breaking Boundaries is brimming with grim scientific insight and urgent cautionary pronouncements, but its style feels fussy and belabored — as if the end of the world were not dramatic enough. Its hard to concentrate on land composition and vanishing biodiversity amid the barrage of bizarre visual effects and histrionic music.Streaming on Netflix, Jon Clays film presents a variety of credible talking heads to explain such matters as the history of the Anthropocene and the importance of the biosphere, with an emphasis on the dangers facing our planet beyond global warming. To accentuate the seriousness of the situation, these experts lean hard on metaphors — we hear a lot about falling dominoes, tipping points, danger zones, runaway trains, open windows, the sides of coins and, most whimsically, planetary friends and planetary foes.The movie visualizes these metaphors tritely, for instance by cutting to a moody shot of a window being shut, and relies extensively on an elaborate C.G.I. visual of featureless humans walking on color-coded pathways, which looks like a commercial for pain-relief medication and to which the film returns constantly, to laughable effect. Breaking Boundaries may have interesting — even critical — information to convey about the future of our species and the fate of the planet. But the form is so insane that the message is nearly lost in the muddle.Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our PlanetNot rated. Running time: 1 hour 13 minutes. Watch on Netflix.The global warming crisis has, understandably, created its own crisis for some documentary filmmakers. How to get your audience to pay attention, so that they then make a change? The answers have come in different approaches, with some going for the more slice-of-apocalypse presentation (Aquarela, highly recommended) or the celebrity-driven (like Al Gores An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, or whatever documentary Leonardo DiCaprio has recently executive produced). Then theres Netflixs Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet, a globe-trotting, 75-minute crash course on the many different ways we are trashing our planet, topped with a little bit of optimism about how its not too late. This unabashed infomerical is broadly affirming, but now Im worried about the future of urgent issues documentaries. Narrated by the calm tenor of Sir David Attenborough, Breaking Boundaries covers the melting of the polar ice caps, the deforestation of the Amazon, the destruction of the coral reef, the burning of the Australian rainforest, and the way that COVID took over our sick ecosystem, all in about the time it took you to read this sentence. This scope speaks to the breadth of issues, and the various ways in which human beings have harmed Earths systems, some of which are beyond return. But that fleeting screen-time proves counter-intuitive as it doesnt dig into the topics with a great deal of information, nor does it create much of an emotional connection beyond what one already has before hitting play. Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet only sounds like a mish-mash title. Scientist Johan Rockström has devised a concept of boundaries, in which we cross certain lines of harming the Earth with regards to levels of biodiversity, ocean acidification, or nutrients. The documentary touts this as its big original idea to add to the global warming documentary pile, and our crossing of said boundaries is shown with animation of people who look like theyre marching over one big Saturday Night Fever dance floor with rows of squares that go from green to yellow and then a no-return red. Breaking Boundaries loves to cram in its metaphors (global warming is equated to dominos, or to a train with no brakes about to go down a hill), and it loves and repeats this image the most. The film was directed by Jon Clay, and yet I would not question it if you told me that was a pen name for Netflix. More than a lot of Netflix Originals, Breaking Boundaries seems specifically made for the touch-and-go attention span that the streaming service cultivates, while trying to make talking head moments extra flashy by putting stuff around them. There are too many goofy examples of an earnest intellectual (Rockström) giving a speech, and then the filmmakers going buck-wild with the green-screen canvas behind him as if this were classy Tim and Eric. If its not the thousands of nervous systems that flare up next to Rockström and distract from his words, its how his face is super-imposed over fires and other disasters, followed by other in-your-face graphics, all for the sake of simply looking busy. The style even bungles what is likely a more intricate argument from Rockström and his fellow scientists. Its hard to keep track of the six major ecosystem boundaries that each get their respective segments—they are rarely named by title, and when theyre all gathered on the same graphic, its just a bunch of green, yellow, and red bars. For a documentary that wants us to simply download and share all of its info, its a major flaw. True to its promise, Breaking Boundaries has a bit of hope for change an hour in (literally), with ideas of recalibration that came from the COVID pandemic. In its way of speaking directly, of calmly pleading with viewers to stop destroying our house, it guides us to concepts that could help make a difference—the kind of minutes in these documentaries that make them important, even if the aesthetics are disposable. In this case, you almost wish the Netflix algorithm kicked in during various segments to their other documentaries that examine these problems in detail. Would You Like to Know More? Watch Jeff Orlowskis Chasing Coral to gain a perspective-changing sense about the damage to coral reefs. But since Netflix doesnt have that, yet, please consider this a recommendation to at least watch Chasing Coral. Now available on Netflix.73 minutesJohan Rockströmas NarratorDavid Attenboroughas Self
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