This lesson guides students to create their own education project as a means of informing and inspiring positive change.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students discuss what education and climate change are and whether they think education can be a solution to climate change.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students participate in a class activity to determine if learning new information can impact people’s intentions or behavior.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students create a climate change education project to educate members of their family, classroom, school, or community.

This lesson encourages students to think critically about facts and opinions and how they relate to climate change.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students determine whether statements are facts or opinions and then define the terms fact and opinion.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students watch three climate change videos, identify climate facts and climate opinions, and express their own opinions about climate solutions.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students create a poster about climate change and separate out facts and opinions.

This lesson teaches students about the different steps in food production and how each step contributes to climate change.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students think about the steps involved in the production of a single food.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students investigate specific foods to see how different stages of the supply chain contribute to a food’s carbon footprint.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students review their Food Trackers to identify which of the foods they consumed had the largest carbon footprint.

In this lesson, students learn about food insecurity and analyze potential solutions for their own community.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students learn causes and consequences of food insecurity and ask questions they have about it.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students investigate food deserts and existing solutions.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students think about their community and analyze solutions to food insecurity that could be applied to their neighborhood.

In this lesson, students unpack the complexities of the global food system and climate change.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students watch a video to think about the complexities of the global food system and its connection with climate change.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students create a concept map to connect different ideas and concepts relating to the global food system and climate change.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students use their concept maps to determine which topic has the potential to make the biggest impact on climate change.

In this lesson, students explore the intersection of music and climate change and create their own original rap songs.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students share fun facts about hip-hop, learn about hip-hop as a cultural and social movement, and view examples of hip-hop intersecting with environmental concepts.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students research a climate change topic and create a class rubric for evaluating student-created raps.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students create and share an original rap about a climate change topic as a means to express their feelings and emotions through music.