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Education as a Solution to Climate Change Lesson

Created by Teacher(s): Monica Lilley, Ben Charles|Published on: August 9, 2022
Lesson Plan Grades 6-8 Created by SubjectToClimate teachers

Synopsis

This lesson guides students to create their own education project as a means of informing and inspiring positive change.
 
Step 1 - Inquire: Students discuss what education and climate change are and whether they think education can be a solution to climate change.
 
Step 2 - Investigate: Students participate in a class activity to determine if learning new information can impact people’s intentions or behavior.
 
Step 3 - Inspire: Students create a climate change education project to educate members of their family, classroom, school, or community.
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Subjects: Social Studies
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Region: Global
Posted on Aug 09, 2022

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Monica Lilley

K-5 Science Teacher

Ben Charles

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Reviews

Breck Foster
I used this lesson in my sustainability elective and it helped students better understand the role education can play in shaping individual behaviors. I adapted it for my high school class by making a copy of the slides and deleting the ones I thought covered information they had already learned. We are using it as a launchpad for project-based learning as students develop their own lessons for elementary school students on a sustainability topic. It generated a lot of good discussion and thinking about our own capacity to change, as well as the need for systems in place to help, as well as the challenges people face due to circumstances related to socio-economics or geography, for example. I highly recommend this lesson for middle or high school!
1 year ago