Heartland Department of Education

• 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.

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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