How does Lion King ecology inform our Big Idea?
Our big idea for the purpose of Applications of Biological Science is that organisms interact with each other and their environment. This big idea relates to the Lion King Disney movie because it exemplifies how organisms interact with one another. The lions in the movie interact with their environment for survival. They have to find and kill their food in order to live, whether that be other animals or bugs. Also, they rely on rivers and streams as their water source. Pride Rock is their environmentally made home and source of shelter. The younger lions knew that there were parts of the environment they were not allowed to visit because of the harmful interactions they would have to endure in this area with the hyenas.
The lions live together in a community and participate in beneficial interactions between one another. Since lions are at the top of the food chain, they had no problem finding food to eat. This represents a harmful interaction for the lions prey. Once Scar and the hyenas took over as the leader at Pride Rock, the social interactions between the animals changed. The hyenas, who were used to being inferior to the lions, were now on top and could boss around the lions as they pleased. Although, this does not truly put them on top of the food chain because a lion could still easily kill a hyena.
How have your ideas changed (if they have) as a result?
Watching the Lion King informed me of various different interactions between organisms and their environments. I still believe that this main idea is extremely important to teaching, but it has also showed me that how I choose to teach will greatly affect my students. If I teach by Mufasa's values of leadership I will be fair to all of my students and not be a dictator in the classroom. Though, if I chose to teach like Scar I would frighten the children into following my rules or else they will be punished. My personality and goals will help to shape the rest of my class.
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