Why You Should Be a Climate Activist

Positives

• Neubauer is an engaging speaker. Her speech will show students that young people can have a voice in climate action.
• Pictures and graphs illustrate the points made.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be comfortable reading and interpreting graphs.
• Students should have some familiarity with COP21 and Greta Thunberg.
  

Differentiation

• There is a transcript of the video available in 20 languages and the video can be downloaded for use offline, which may help teachers with spotty internet connections.
  
• This would be a great video to show in a social studies class. Students could make personal plans for taking climate action.
• Teachers could pause on the graphs that appear at 1 minute, 27 seconds and at 1 minute, 42 seconds to ask students the following questions:
  • Which graph would be most impactful for people who are not convinced that climate change is happening? Why?
  • How could these graphs be used together to teach someone about the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
  • What makes these graphs compelling?
• Students could also create their own Ted Talks about an issue related to global warming, human impacts on the planet, or climate change.
• Some related resources are this video of Greta Thunberg's speech at COP25, this media literacy activity on youth activism, and this lesson plan on climate activism.