MCAN! Climate Stories

• This collection of climate poems, reflections, videos, and artistic expressions provides a variety of points of view and experiences about climate change that students may identify with.
• This collection is from climate writing workshops completed in 2022 through MCAN.
  

Positives

• The personal stories allow students to empathize with others and validate their own concerns or feelings.
• This is a great SEL resource that connects climate change to language arts.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students will need access to the Internet to access the stories.
• Students should be familiar with prose and poetry formats.
  

Differentiation

• Language arts classes can select one story to review together as a class and then have students create their own climate story in the format you select.
• Social studies classes could use these stories to connect to lessons about the importance of individual perspectives in governing and the importance of intergenerational representation and diversity in decision making.
• Art classes could use these climate stories as inspiration for an art project and written statements about their climate experiences or feelings.
• Consider having students research recent or ongoing climate disasters and have them write reflections about the disaster and the people affected.
  

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