This short video highlights the vulnerability of women to climate change and the critical role they play in adapting to it and protecting the environment.
The video explains the barriers women face in the agricultural, social, and political spheres and the importance of gender equality as a climate solution.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This empowering video explains women's essential role in sustainability projects, disaster response, and community mobilization.
The video also highlights women leading non-governmental organizations focused on sustainability initiatives, like tree planting.
Additional Prerequisites
Before watching the video, students should have a general understanding of the effects of climate change and the benefits of trees.
At the bottom of the video, you can select which part of the video you would like to skip to.
Differentiation
This resource can also be used in civics classes during lessons about gender inequality, environmental justice, and women's rights.
Challenge students to come up with ways to increase women's access to education and decision-making in their country.
As a follow-up activity, students can research and report on a woman-led sustainability or environment organization of their choosing.
For more inspiring stories about the women on the front lines of climate change, watch this video about one woman's efforts to protect her local environment and this video about a community's tree-growing project.
Scientist Notes
This video discusses the gender equality surrounding the climate crisis and how women are more affected by climate change. There is a discussion about the inclusion of women in the fight against climate change and how without including them in the discussion, a huge portion of the climate equation is left out. This video is well researched and sourced, and would be a great addition to a classroom discussion concerning gender equality and/or climate change. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Geography
D2.Geo.4.6-8 Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
D2.Geo.6.9-12 Evaluate the impact of human settlement activities on the environmental and cultural characteristics of specific places and regions.
Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
D4.7.9-12 Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
HS-ESS3-3 Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.2 Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.
