Educating Others About Climate Change
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Provided by: New York DEP|Published on: January 29, 2024
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Synopsis
- In this lesson, students learn about common misconceptions that contribute to climate change denial and practice responding to these claims by creating a comic strip that addresses climate denial.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, English Language Arts
Authors: New York DEP
Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, New York
Languages: English
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Positives
- Students can use what they learn in this lesson to have important conversations with climate deniers in their community.
- This lesson uses the resource Have the Talk: Climate Conversations Guide to provide a detailed framework for how students can have productive conversations using OARTAC (Open, Ask, Reflect, Tell, Ask, Close).
Additional Prerequisites
- Students should know the basics of climate change and global warming to support this activity.
- The link to the Yale Climate Opinion Map is broken. This can be found here.
- The Psychology of Climate Change Communication link is broken.
Differentiation
- The lesson includes two extension activities that can be used to deepen the lesson, for early finishers, or to be assigned as homework.
- Challenge students to have actual conversations with people in their community using the framework provided and report back on how it went.
- Teachers can display the comic strips in the classroom or around the school. Students can then vote on their favorite comics to be published on the school website or in a newsletter.
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