Climate Catastrophe - How Did We Get Here?!
Provided by: Jack Harries|Published on: July 1, 2022
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Videos
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, History
Authors: Earthrise, Jack Harries
Region: Global
Languages: English
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Synopsis
- This informative video explains how humans discovered ways to harness the power of fossil fuels to expand agriculture and industry and how the energy source led to climate change.
- Students will learn about the causes of our changing climate and the crisis humanity is facing as the planet warms.
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Positives
- This video is entertaining and informative.
- The video does an excellent job of mixing history and science.
Additional Prerequisites
- An ad plays before the video.
Differentiation
- This video would work equally well in history or science classes.
- Cross-curricular connections could be made in language arts classes that are reading or writing about climate change or fossil fuels.
- Before playing the video, have a whole class or partner conversation about the history of fossil fuels to prime student engagement. Revisit the conversation after the video to recap the main points.
- Other related resources include this article about the history of American dependence on oil, this video about the cost of carbon, and this interactive graph about public climate change opinions.
Communities in the developing world have been the most severely impacted by the effects of climate change. This resource offers historical proof of the role fossil fuels have had in both the development of civilization and the considerable contribution they have made to climate change. There are no misconceptions in this resource, making it perfect for the classroom.
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