In this lesson, students evaluate arguments and reasoning on the effects of climate change and advocate for climate change through a personal call to action. 

Step 1 - Inquire: Students explore three different personal perspectives on how climate change has affected three different regions.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students identify three different personal calls to action and explore strategies in personal evidence and reasoning.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students identify their own personal perspective with climate change in their region and write their own call to action.

In this lesson, students learn the five climate zones in New Jersey and interpret facts into a poetic voice from the point of view of nature. 

Step 1 - Inquire: Students explore two interactive maps showing increased precipitation and sea level rise in New Jersey. 

Step 2 - Investigate: Students learn the details and differences of the five climate zones in New Jersey. 

Step 3 - Inspire: Students read a short poem describing a zone of nature, choose one climate zone, and reinterpret the details and differences of the zone into a poem from nature’s point of view.

In this lesson, students explore four major categories of climate change, identify one to further research, and create a fact sheet. 

Step 1 - Inquire: Students read New Jersey's Changing Climate and identify the four specific effects of climate change in New Jersey.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students discuss two open-ended questions related to the fact sheet.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students choose one category from the fact sheet and discussion, engage in their own research, and create their own fact sheet and infographic.

In this lesson, students explore the role of video games in bringing awareness to climate change and evaluate or design a climate change video game.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students discuss the role of video games in education and behavior modification, sharing their personal experiences and thoughts.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students read an article on how the gaming industry is addressing its environmental impact and answer discussion questions.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students choose to evaluate the effectiveness of climate change games or design their own climate change video game.

In this lesson, students use New Jersey precipitation data to create graphs and discuss climate change.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students discuss initial observations about a New Jersey precipitation data chart showing monthly and annual averages.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students explain the relationship of precipitation over time by graphing, finding the line of best fit, and finding the equation of the line.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students choose an independent activity, complete a short reading, and then apply their learning to a discussion about the relationship between precipitation and climate change.

In this lesson, students graph data to explore the relationship between maximum and minimum New Jersey temperatures over time.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students interact with two data tables showing maximum and minimum average temperatures in New Jersey.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students choose data to graph both max and min temperatures over time and discuss their findings.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students watch a video showing the current effects of temperature in New Jersey and explore the connection between the video’s information and their graph.

In this lesson, students discuss three effective strategies for talking about climate change, then write and present a speech using the three strategies.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students identify and discuss the communication disconnect between climate change scientists and everyday people.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students watch a video and evaluate three effective communication strategies for climate change discussions.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students write and deliver a 3-5 minute speech on climate change.

In this lesson, students learn how redlining connects to tree equity and racial justice.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students learn definitions of redlining and systemic racism and explore the Mapping Inequality tool.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students explore the connection between redlining and tree equity.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students share their new knowledge, discuss possible solutions to environmental inequality, and complete a written reflection.

In this lesson, students learn about deforestation and climate change and respond by writing an ode or an elegy.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students watch a video showing deforestation and pick one region to further research the effects of climate change.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students learn the differences between an ode and an elegy and write a poem to the lost forests.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students share their poems and investigate possible solutions to deforestation.

In this lesson, students evaluate three slogans on climate awareness and advocacy and create their own artistic slogans with four specific types of parallel structure.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students evaluate visual and writing components of three slogans on climate change awareness and advocacy.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students watch introductory videos on climate change, take notes on the main ideas, reflect on meaningful evidence, and discuss the effectiveness of climate protests.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students learn four types of parallel structure and create slogans combining parallel structures, climate change facts, and art.

In this lesson, students learn the impacts of climate change on birds, explore the effectiveness of public art on climate change awareness, and synthesize informational texts into an essay.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students watch a video showing the effects of climate change on bird sizes and discuss their observations and questions.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students explore the art and artists of the Audubon Mural project, read an article, and discuss the effectiveness of art in climate change awareness.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students learn about the personal beliefs of John J. Audubon, reflect on the relevance of these beliefs to the work of the Audubon Society, and respond in a persuasive or argumentative essay.

In this lesson, students explore various impacts of landfills, learn about the environmental justice movement, and apply their learning to community action.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students learn about the decomposition rates of items commonly found in landfills and begin to discern issues landfills may cause.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students explore their local landfills, watch a video on the beginning of the environmental justice movement, and learn about environmental racism.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students learn about the federal environmental justice office and create a community awareness plan about landfills.

In this lesson, students explore the connection between climate change and food security in the Arctic, understand the impacts on the Inuit way of life, and write a persuasive piece on a potential solution.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students are introduced to the complexities of Arctic food systems through images and build an understanding of the definition of food security globally and specifically in the circumpolar Arctic.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students read about Indigenous food security in the Arctic, and students share their learning in a jigsaw activity.