This "Back to School" bulletin board and classroom decoration kit provides teachers with printable materials or digital decorations to use throughout the school year as inspiration for climate education and taking climate action.
The Google Slides resource includes grayscale-friendly visual materials that encourage students to learn more about climate change, communicate what they learn, and take steps to reduce their climate impacts.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The slides are printer-friendly and can be used for both digital classroom decorations or in-class decorations.
The slides encourage students to teach family and friends about climate change.
Additional Prerequisites
Teachers will need access to Google Slides.
The file can be downloaded as image files or as MS PowerPoint.
Differentiation
The bulletin board could be used as a digital backdrop for an online classroom.
The letters could be printed on recycled paper and strung together with string for students to decorate and hang up in the classroom.
The bulletin illustrates the goal of SubjectToClimate and offers students a back to school "welcome package" on how to engage in climate conversations and actions. This is ideal for classroom use.
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.
D4.7.K-2 Identify ways to take action to help address local, regional, and global problems.
D4.7.3-5 Explain different strategies and approaches students and others could take in working alone and together to address local, regional, and global problems, and predict possible results of their actions.
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.
