Solutions for Climate Change Game
Games
30 minutesGrades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12English Language Arts
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Written by Meighan Hooper
About this activity
- In this interactive fortune-telling game, students explore four potential solutions to climate change and get their “fortunes” read using informational “Tarot” cards about empowering girls and women, eliminating food waste, using more renewable energy, and switching to plant-rich diets.
- Students will watch a short video about each solution, choose the solution they think is the best, and answer questions to see if the solution they chose aligns with their answers.
Everything you need to teach it
- Solutions for Climate Change Game Preview
Teaching tips
Solutions for Climate Change GameSuggestions
- The game's fortune-telling theme is fun and engaging.
- It ends with a positive and empowering message about how students can make a difference in stopping climate change.
Prerequisites
- There is a help button to assist students if they are having trouble navigating the game.
- Students must watch all the videos for the "Next" button to appear and move on.
- Students cannot go back in the game. They will need to start over from the beginning.
- Students should already be familiar with how and why the climate is changing.
Differentiation
- For science classes, this is a great resource to introduce some of the major solutions to climate change and tie them into lessons about the carbon cycle, photosynthesis, decomposition, and the energy lost at each trophic level.
- If there is limited access to technology, students could complete the game with a partner/small group or teachers could run the game as an entire class and have students vote on the best solution.
- After the game, students could use this guide and this resource about the top individual solutions and write to one of their representatives about enacting local solutions to climate change.
- To start implementing solutions at your school, check out this guide to starting a meatless Mondays program and this one about putting solar panels on your school.
- Other resources related to climate change solutions include this video by The YEARS Project, this table of solutions by Project Drawdown, and this lesson plan by SubjectToClimate.
From the scientist review
This game explores four basic climate solutions for students to learn and implement in their environment. There is no silver bullet as all solutions are imperative for limiting CO2 levels. This game is ideal for students.
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About the teacher writer
Meighan Hooper
Chief Operating Officer
Meighan Hooper, B.Ed., is SubjectToClimate's Chief Operating Officer. She holds an H.B.A. from the University of Toronto and a B.Ed. from Queen's University, and is an Ontario Certified Teacher (OCT) with 14 years of classroom teaching experience across Canada, Bahrain, Qatar, and China. She began at SubjectToClimate as Director of User Engagement before moving into the CMO and then COO roles. Fun fact: she helped launch the SubjectToClimate website.
