Climate Mental Health: Visioning Possibility
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Engagement Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Center for Education
This learning activity activity takes 30-60 minutes.
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Teaching Tips
- This lesson could be especially helpful after exploring climate science and data to engage students' imaginations and creativity after grappling with the reality and impacts of climate change.
About the Content
- This activity helps to address climate overwhelm and grief by enabling students to envision solutions to climate change and connect them to their own community. It would be helpful to include background on what climate change is, which is necessary knowledge for this lesson. Teachers can find this background in the CLEAN teaching climate pages- https://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/climate/index.html.
- Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.
About the Pedagogy
- For some students, it may be helpful to have the teacher model the activity and talk through their own visioning process for students. It may also be useful to repeat the visioning process after solutions have been explored to see if what students imagine the future could be like changes after seeing some of the current work happening.
