Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Heartland Department of Education
Provided by: The Climate Reality Project |Published on: April 20, 2023
Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
- In this video, climate change denial talking points are recited alongside other assertions that are universally seen as false.
- At the video's end, it's made clear that the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank funded by fossil fuel companies, is trying to bring climate change denial curriculum into American schools.
Subjects: Science, Economics, Civics
Authors: Climate Reality Project
Region: North America, United States
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This video is concise, well-produced, and thought provoking.
- This video makes a connection between school curriculums and the worldwide fight against climate change.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students must know how to analyze media that makes a point implicitly instead of explicitly.
- Students need to have a basic understanding of germ theory, gravity, the addictiveness of cigarettes, heliocentrism, and the Earth's roundness.
Differentiation
- This video could supplement a lesson about misinformation, the responsibilities and goals of governments vs. corporations, and regulations on free speech.
- This video could supplement a lesson on how greed can lead to economic choices that harm individuals, communities, countries, and the world.
- This video could supplement a lesson on how certain politicians are influenced by fossil fuel companies and how this influence impacts their legislation and decision-making.
- In a language arts class, this video provides a good exercise for analyzing points of view, reasoning, links among ideas, word choice, tone, and assessing implicit messages.
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About the Partner Provider
The Climate Reality Project
Climate Reality Project seeks to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society. They recruit, train, and mobilize people to become powerful activists, providing the skills, campaigns, and resources to push for aggressive climate action and high-level policies that accelerate a just transition to clean energy.
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