Educating Others About Climate Change
Provided by: New York DEP|Published on: January 29, 2024
Grades: 6, 7, 8
Type: Lesson Plans
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, English Language Arts
Authors: New York DEP
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, New York
Languages: English
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Synopsis
- In this lesson, students learn about common misconceptions that contribute to climate change denial and practice responding to these claims by creating a comic strip that addresses climate denial.
Teaching Materials
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.
Teachers can help students think critically about climate change and how the public is informed about the concerns surrounding it by using the lesson plan from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
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