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Provided by: Tinkercast |Published on: October 9, 2025
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Synopsis
This Tinkercast resource features a "Wow in the World" podcast episode in which Guy, Mindy, and the rest of the gang learn how their actions are contributing to climate change and then come up with ways to make improvements.
The resource also includes a terrarium design activity, downloadable slide decks for student reflections and for students to create their own experiment or project.
The podcast episode has a wonderful, positive message about focusing on building a better future, rather than on how we have impacted the climate in the past.
Students will love the goofy characters and hearing the voices of other kids.
Prerequisites
Students should have a basic understanding of what climate change is.
For hearing impaired students, there is a printable transcript of the podcast.
Differentiation & Implementation
At about 5:00, teachers can pause the podcast and have students list the things the characters are doing that are harmful to the planet.
After hearing the characters list out how they are going to use their talents and knowledge to build a better future, students can write one way they will help build a better future and draw themselves doing it.
Students can practice using descriptive imagery by describing a place that "wows" them, like the callers at the end of the show.
To make connections to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, teachers can have students connect each character and their contribution to one of the Goals. Students may identify Goal 7, Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 12, Responsible Consumption and Production, and Goal 13, Climate Action.
Teachers can choose to play the video instead of the podcast of this episode.
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