Why Climate Change Is So Hard to Talk About
Provided by: Hot Mess|Published on: April 27, 2021
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Videos
Subjects: English Language Arts
Authors: Hot Mess
Region: Global
Languages: English
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Synopsis
- This video provides strategies for how to be involved in climate action and how to talk about climate change without feeling defeated.
- Students will learn that approaching climate change skeptics with compassion and empathy can lead to more open dialogue.
Teaching Materials
Prerequisites
- Review the concept of "fight, flight, or freeze."
- Consider defining the terms perennial, collective action, apathetic, agitate, and empathetic.
Interdisciplinary Connections:
- Life Skills:
- Role-play climate change conversations to practice using the skills in the video.
- English Language Arts:
- Follow the video with a writing exercise where students write about a time when they changed their mind about something and what led them to make that change.
Related Resources:
- Pair the video with this lesson and activity on writing a personal narrative on climate change.
- Use this guidebook for having climate change conversations.
- Check out this video on effective climate change dialogue.
The video underscores better ways of handling climate discourse. It presents scenarios where climate conversations become difficult and activate a freeze response. Ultimately, climate conversations should not be forceful. We need to understand people's perceptions and perspectives towards climate change and introduce the conversations carefully, and gradually, they get along. This resource is suitable and recommended for teaching.
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