Realistic Ways You Can Fight Climate Change Today

• This interactive resource provides a variety of ways that citizens can help fight climate change in their everyday lives, including creating energy-efficient homes, adopting sustainable eating habits, practicing sustainable shopping, and prioritizing eco-friendly transportation. 
• Each lifestyle change is fully described, with an interactive sliding scale of money, time, and effort required to make the change.

Positives

• There is a text-only version of the site so teachers can print for hard-copy classroom use.
• Each habit change or investment has a paragraph of explanation, along with graphics designed to reflect its cost-effectiveness, time committment, and effort required.
• Teachers and students can easily share the website via social media.
• There are several clickable source articles at the bottom of the page.

Additional Prerequisites

• Teachers and students will need internet access.
• Because some vocabulary is rigorous, a definition list will be helpful.
• Menstrual products are mentioned.
• The link to Sabrina McCormick and sources 4, 25, and 34 are broken. However, these are not necessary for exploring the information.
• Students should understand climate change and what causes it.

Differentiation

• English teachers could assign one habit or investment per student in a class and then have the students create a mini-research paper based on the information. 
• English teachers can also have students write personal narratives about their journeys to fight climate change. 
• This resource lends itself to small-group or partner activities in which students learn about real-life solutions to the global crisis.
• Have students choose one of the simple solutions to implement for a week and present their experience to the class.

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