This learning activity takes four 60 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.
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Technical Details
Teaching Tips
- Consider using each lesson throughout a larger curricula on Earth systems science to extend the activity and allow students to bring a greater understanding to the final two activities.
- Teachers should read through this unit and the 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.
- Creating a climate action plan is very challenging in one class period. The activities offered here are useful but may need significant additional time to provide the support students need to engage.
- Refer to the CLEAN Teaching Climate Science background pages to help get support and resources for topics that need more depth.
About the Content
- This resource uses videos, worksheets, discussions, and a student-led presentation to help students understand and discuss climate change solutions as they relate to vulnerable populations. The lesson culminates in students working together to develop resilience plans to help address climate change.
- While the information and data are solid, more support could be provided for the science through outside sources. Several of the videos included in this resource are more than five years old. In a rapidly changing system, teachers may want to supplement with more up-to-date resources.
- Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.
About the Pedagogy
- This resource uses a variety of worksheets, videos, written materials, and discussion-based activities that support a complete understanding of the material. Student worksheets and discussion prompts are provided.
- This resource provides a comprehensive teacher and student guide with a class presentation and associated teacher notes for each session.
- The concepts and ideas presented in this activity are quite complex. Consequently, it's difficult to fit everything into the four 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.
- This resource does an exemplary job of approaching climate change material with sensitivity.
