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It could be used to encourage students to talk about their anxieties about climate change.
This video features Mitch Prinstein, the Chief Science Officer of the American Psychological Association.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with the effects of climate change.
Differentiation
Students could work in groups to identify common fears about climate change and brainstorm ways to support each other.
Teachers could use this video to help students unpack their feelings about climate change and encourage them to write in a journal about it, create an art piece about it, or create a song or dance to express their feelings about it.
Science and civics classes could use this video after learning about climate change or one of the many topics connected to climate change, such as deforestation, biodiveristy loss, the sixth mass extinction, ecosystem declines, toxic air and water pollution, human migrations, and the devastation caused by extreme droughts, fires, heat, storms, or floods.
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