This learning activity takes four 50 minute class periods.
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Grade Level
Regional Focus
Online Readiness
Topics
Climate Literacy
This Activity builds on the following concepts of Climate Literacy.
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Energy Literacy
This Activity builds on the following concepts of Energy Literacy.
Click a topic below for supporting information, teaching ideas, and sample activities.
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Technical Details
Teaching Tips
- Read through this unit and teacher support guide to consider whether individual lessons, activities, or the entire unit will most benefit your students.
- Consider the concepts and ideas your students are already familiar with and what might be helpful information/activities for them to engage in before teaching this unit.
- There are multiple resource pages for teachers included in this lesson, however, the concepts addressed may be difficult for students to grapple with and understand.
- Students may need significant support to complete the tasks specified in a way that is deeply meaningful to them in the context of their community. There is a surface version of this unit that could be taught, which focuses on only the resources provided and the discussions specified, but it may be less impactful for students.
- Creating a climate action plan is very challenging in one class period. The activities offered here are useful but may need a significant amount of additional time to provide the support students need to engage.
About the Content
- This unit focuses on both the social and the physical science aspects of climate change. While the information and data are solid, more support could be provided for both realms of science through outside sources.
- Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.
About the Pedagogy
- This resource includes a comprehensive teacher and student guide for each of the three sessions.
- A presentation with teacher notes is provided, and pedagogical scaffolding is complete and supportive to stimulate productive discussions and emotionally sensitive role play activities.
- Students will discuss climate risk, vulnerability and resilience, and gain a deeper understanding of the impact of these terms.
- This resource supports challenging students' ideas and perspectives as well as collaboration among classmates.
- The concepts and ideas presented in this activity are very big. Consequently, it's difficult to fit everything into the three lessons this unit describes. Some of the methods, such as role-playing specific cultures and demographics that students may not be familiar with could use more support.
- Students will be encouraged to learn specific vocabulary to discuss these topics, and research strategies to increase community climate resilience.
