Genre - ALTERNATIVESummary – FernGully is a magical place where little fairies live and thrive in the beautiful rainforest. The fairies had never seen a real human before, until the main character, Christa, sees a real human man named Zak. Zak is accidentally shrunk down to the size of a fairy and is in danger, as the logging company he works for is set to tear down the forest and FernGully. The fairies and Zak must destroy the logging company, run by an oil-like monster called Hexxus, before FernGully is destroyed.
Teaching Points – This movie is a classic about deforestation and how even the littlest life forms, like the fairies of FernGully, are affected. Despite the fact that fairies are imaginative creatures, this movie can be used to compare and contrast the characteristics of rainforests today. Children can apply what they learned from the film to life forms in rain forests today. Teachers can have students pretend as though they are writing to Hexxus, the owner of the logging company on Mount Warning, and trying to persuade him not to tear down the forest. Students can have the experience of standing up for a cause and using persuasion as a method to keep the forest safe and healthy. In the process, students will also learn more about rainforests and how to express their opinions in a persuasive format.
