"Kids Can Change the World"

Positives

• Students will learn that people in countries with fewer resources suffer disproportionately from climate change, even though their countries contribute fewer emissions than wealthier countries.
• There is a glossary at the end of the book.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• This is the ninth and final book in the ClimateScience picture book series. The book features characters from previous ClimateScience books.
• Teachers may want to go over the words in the glossary before sharing the book with students.
  

Differentiation

• Upper elementary classes could use this book to discuss systemic oppression. In the book, the people in power did not include indigenous people when making decisions. Students could consider the following questions:
  • Why is it important to involve the entire community when making big decisions?
  • Why were the indigenous people left out of the decision-making process?
  • How can a community work together when people have different ideas or beliefs?
  • What is the role of a leader? What makes a person qualified to lead?

• Students could draw pictures and write about how they could help Earthly to bring home and share with their families. Ideas from the book include eating less meat, recycling, buying fewer things, planting trees, collecting rainwater for crops, using sustainable farming practices, and sharing their knowledge with others.
• Older students could choose a class project to help Earthly or write letters to leaders about their climate concerns.
• Other resources on this topic include this activity on designing a future version of the world, this SubjectToClimate lesson plan on indigenous communities and the environment, and this SubjectToClimate lesson plan on getting involved in climate action.