Role Play: Six Americas, Six Views on Global Warming

• This role-play activity allows students to practice communicating with people who have dissimilar opinions on climate change. 
• Students can use one of the three climate action scenarios provided on the Teacher Page or write their own scenario for the role play. 

Positives

• The Student Page is a fillable pdf with planning questions, reflection questions, a graphic organizer, and rubrics.
• The Teacher Page provides three scenarios with vocabulary terms and descriptions for each of the six characters' roles.

Additional Prerequisites

• Teachers and students will benefit from reviewing the Yale Program on Climate Change's Global Warming's Six Americas to better understand the six characters in the role play.
• Teachers may want to go over the scenario’s vocabulary before starting the activity.
• Teachers can assign the students groups and roles or allow the students to pick their own roles.

Differentiation

• Before the activity, students can take the Six Americas Super Short Survey to see which of the six groups they align with personally. 
• Students in writing or English language arts classes could write an original climate action scenario for a role play. Students could brainstorm ideas that would have an impact on their local community and use those ideas to shape the story. 
  
• Other resources on this topic include this lesson on writing a personal climate story and this PBS video on why climate change is so hard to talk about.

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