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Author

ClimateScience

Grades

4th, 5th, 6th

Subjects

Science, English Language Arts, Visual and Performing Arts

Resource Types

  • Activity - Classroom
  • Worksheets

Regional Focus

Global

Format

PDF

Presenting a Climate Solution

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Synopsis
  • This classroom activity has students create a poster about one of eleven proposed climate solutions, including reducing food waste, educating girls, plant-based meats, and more.
  • Students will practice reading comprehension, group work, and public speaking while learning about important climate science subjects.
  • The resource includes a teacher's guide, a student handout, and sources.

Teaching Tips

Positives

  • This resource includes a thorough teacher's guide and an instruction sheet for students that features a poster exemplar.
  • The research and reading links are excellent resources that can be differentiated for readers at multiple levels.

Additional Prerequisites

  • Students should have some background knowledge on climate change and potential solutions.
  • In order to complete this project, students will need access to the reading materials from the teacher's guide; these are best distributed digitally.

Differentiation

  • This resource would work equally well in language arts or science classes that are working on non-fiction reading comprehension, public speaking, or climate change topics.
  • Cross-curricular connections can be made in health or social studies classes that are discussing how healthy choices can also be climate solutions, or how citizen and government action can lead to climate solutions.
  • This project can be extended by providing a text set of additional resources for more research.
  • Consider providing a rubric or exemplar for public speaking.
Scientist Notes
In this resource, students can engage in brainstorming and research activities on climate solutions to better understand their effects on the environment, people, and how they might be used to address the global climate crisis. This is wise and ought to be taught in schools.
Standards

This resource addresses the listed standards. To fully meet standards, search for more related resources.

  • Science
    • ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
      • MS-ESS3-4. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
  • English Language Arts
    • Reading: Informational Text (K-12)
      • RI.CI.4.2 Summarize an informational text and interpret the author’s purpose or main idea citing key details from the text.
      • RI.IT.4.3 Describe the impact of individuals and events throughout the course of a text, explaining events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on evidence in the text.
      • RI.CR.5.1 Quote accurately from an informational text when explaining what the text says explicitly and make relevant connections when drawing inferences from the text.
    • Speaking & Listening (K-12)
      • SL.PE.5.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
      • SL.PI.5.4 Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
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