Developing Climate Change Community Solutions

Suggestions

• Student Documents can be collected and used as a formative assessment.

• This lesson can be taught in a Social Studies classroom or with any class or after-school club trying to strengthen their sense of community.

• During the web activity, students may discover similarities they share with classmates.

 Prerequisites

• Some of the resources in the Investigate section jigsaw may not be developmentally appropriate for all 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. Teachers are encouraged to find resources that are better suited to their unique classroom.

• Books about the importance of building strength in a community include Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown and It’s Not That Radical by Mikaela Loach.

• Students should understand how diversity can strengthen the community, and that no one person can solve a communal problem.

Differentiation

• This lesson could be taught before or after the lesson Solving Problems.

• Optional steps to support students with defining community include:
  • Ask if there is a difference between a group of people and a community. For example: Are people standing in line together the same as a sports team?
  • Students can think-pair-share ten examples of what they consider to be a community and share them with the class for further discussion.
  • Students can identify similar characteristics between the different examples of community.
  • Ask the question: Is our class a community? Why?

• As an alternative to the web activity, students can say something kind or something they admire about a classmate before passing them the yarn.
  

• Students who finish the jigsaw activity early can explore other resources.

This lesson explores community traits and rethinks community-led approaches to mitigating the effects of climate change on a local scale. It passed our science credibility rating after a thorough review.

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Note On Standards:

This lesson is aligned to SubjectToClimate standards. Review the aligned standards directly in the lesson plan document and teacher slideshow.