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Provided by: Tinkercast |Published on: August 14, 2025
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Synopsis
In this special Earth Day episode of "Wow in the World" from Tinkercast, the group celebrates the Earth by talking about their gifts for the Earth and explaining various climate change mitigation strategies.
Students will learn how scientists are researching various solutions to stop climate change and protect the planet.
Teachers may need to create a free account to access related materials, such as note sheets and experiments.
The theme that innovation requires lots of ideas is inspiring!
Hearing about all of the solutions being studied gives listeners hope for the future.
Prerequisites
Ads may play before the podcast episode.
The greenhouse effect is explained briefly, but some students may benefit from a more in-depth explanation.
Differentiation & Implementation
Some students may benefit from having the characters and their voices introduced before listening to the episode.
Before listening to the episode, teachers can have students review recent instances of extreme weather to give some background information to connect to during the climate change part of the episode.
Teachers can connect this episode to Sustainable Development Goal 13, Climate Action.
To extend this learning about climate solutions, teachers can split students into groups to further research mitigation strategies such as changing cattle diets, direct air capture, solar radiation management, and solar energy.
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