Positives

• Students can use what they learn in this lesson to have important conversations with climate deniers in their community.
• This lesson uses the resource Have the Talk: Climate Conversations Guide to provide a detailed framework for how students can have productive conversations using OARTAC (Open, Ask, Reflect, Tell, Ask, Close).

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should know the basics of climate change and global warming to support this activity.
• The link to the Yale Climate Opinion Map is broken. This can be found here. 
• The Psychology of Climate Change Communication link is broken.

Differentiation

• The lesson includes two extension activities that can be used to deepen the lesson, for early finishers, or to be assigned as homework.
• Challenge students to have actual conversations with people in their community using the framework provided and report back on how it went.
• Teachers can display the comic strips in the classroom or around the school. Students can then vote on their favorite comics to be published on the school website or in a newsletter.