Personal Action
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Lesson Plans
Subjects: Science
Authors: ClimateScience
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Synopsis
- This interactive course about taking personal action to address climate change includes sections on a sustainable diet, flying and driving, consumption, having children, activism, and how much personal actions matter.
- It contains text, interactive questions, infographics, links to references, a final quiz, and a certificate of completion.
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Positives
- It outlines many different ways individuals can take action and helps students gauge the relative impact of those actions.
- Students can proceed through the content at their own pace.
- Students earn a certificate if they complete the course.
Additional Prerequisites
- This course is part of a series of climate change courses from ClimateScience.
- Students will need a computer and Internet connection to use the interactive features.
- Teachers and students will need to enroll and create a free account to use the course and save their progress.
Differentiation
- This course provides two levels of learning. Before enrolling in the course, users can scroll down and use the button to toggle between. "Simple" and "Advanced." The "Simple" setting is recommended for middle school students, while the "Advanced" setting is recommended for high school students.
- As an extension, students can research and present other possible solutions to aging populations in developed countries, such as making it easier for climate migrants/refugees/international students/etc. to immigrate to those countries.
- Other related resources include this climate action lesson plan, this Project Drawdown article about health and education, and this StC lesson plan about the impacts of food.
The resource highlights various ways for individuals to reduce their carbon footprint including family planning, consuming less meat and more plant-based diets, reducing flying, etc. Students can learn how these can impact their daily lifestyles to achieve net zero carbon by 2050. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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