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ACE

Grades

6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th

Subjects

Social Studies, Civics, Visual and Performing Arts

Resource Types

  • Activity - Classroom
  • Worksheets

Regional Focus

Global

Format

Google Docs, PDF

Climate Strike and Art Activism - Create Your Story

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Synopsis
  • This guide will help students create a poster for a climate strike or demonstration.
  • This guide is specifically for the 2019 youth-led climate strike on September 20, 2019, but you could simply adapt this guide for any future demonstrations or activities.
Teaching Tips

Positives

  • This could be used to introduce students to the Paris Climate Agreement.
  • The student worksheet helps the student create a story in six words or less.

Additional Prerequisites

  • Since students are now moving towards digital art, an adaptation would be to use Canva, an easy-to-use online design and publishing tool.
  • If so, teachers might want to learn how to use the tool before hand.
  • Teachers need to create a free account to access the materials.

Differentiation

  • This activity can be a good culminating assessment for students to connect what they learn in the classroom to a global event in order to exercise climate action.
  • This activity can be more thoughtfully done by examining communication techniques and media messages from Project Look Sharp.
  • In order for students to think about impact, you could have a follow-up activity after they participate in or observe a climate strike and then reflect on the effects of global movements.
  • Other resources related to climate solutions and individual actions include this video to future generations, this foodprint calculator, and this video from the Years Project.
Scientist Notes

Resource is valid and recommended for teaching.

Standards
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
    • Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
      • D4.7.6-8 Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.
  • National Core Arts Standards
    • Visual Arts: Standard 1 - Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
      • VA:Cr1.1.6a Combine concepts collaboratively to generate innovative ideas for creating art.
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