Sharing Your Climate Story

• This lesson plan introduces students to telling their personal story about climate change and how it has affected them.
• Students will learn about the effects of climate change in each state and watch two short videos before writing their narrative.
  

Positives

• The videos provide examples of personal narratives about climate-related issues. 
• The narratives can be sent to the congressional representatives for each student.
  

Prerequisites

• Students should have a basic understanding of climate change, environmental challenges, and climate justice prior to the lesson.
• Teachers need to make a free account to access the materials.
  

Differentiation

• While the lesson provides a worksheet that identifies and separates the paragraphs, consider including starter sentences to scaffold the writing for younger students.
• The lesson plan was written with high school in mind but it could easily be used in middle school as well.
• Science classes could use this lesson to improve their communication skills regarding scientific topics by including an additional paragraph about the scientific evidence. 
  

This resource provides a good method for students to share their climate stories and write letters or emails to their representatives to request they support policies that would mitigate climate change. All activities and content actuates good climate conversations and narratives. This is recommended for teaching.