Environmental Justice – For Whom, How and Why?
Lesson Plans
Grades6-APCivics, Health
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What it is
- In this media literacy activity, students analyze three videos about environmental injustice.
- Students will discuss the different ways in which each video explains the causes and effects of environmental injustice.
- This resource includes a student lesson plan and three video clips.
Teaching tips
Positives
- The lesson plan includes discussion questions for several academic subjects.
- Students will see how three filmmakers chose to focus on different aspects of environmental injustice.
Additional Prerequisites
- Teachers must create a free account to access the materials.
Differentiation
- Students could respond to questions individually or in small groups before discussing their answers as a class.
- Students could discuss how the solutions presented in the three videos could be combined into a policy or plan. As they discuss their answers students could consider the following questions:
- Is there a way to create a plan that could garner bipartisan approval?
- Who should be involved in creating the plan?
- What are the primary obstacles to achieving environmental justice?
- Civics or social studies classes could discuss environmental policy shifts that have occurred during Biden's term in office.
- Other resources on this topic include this EPA interactive map that acts as an environmental justice screening tool and this lesson and activity on building an equitable city.
From the scientist review
The resource provides a good explanation of the concept of environmental justice. It is recommended for teaching.
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