• This informative video explains how humans discovered ways to harness the power of fossil fuels to expand agriculture and industry and how the energy source led to climate change. 
• Students will learn about the causes of our changing climate and the crisis humanity is facing as the planet warms. 

Positives

• This video is entertaining and informative. 
• The video does an excellent job of mixing history and science. 

Additional Prerequisites

• An ad plays before the video.  
  

Differentiation

• This video would work equally well in history or science classes.
• Cross-curricular connections could be made in language arts classes that are reading or writing about climate change or fossil fuels. 
• Before playing the video, have a whole class or partner conversation about the history of fossil fuels to prime student engagement. Revisit the conversation after the video to recap the main points.
• Other related resources include this article about the history of American dependence on oil, this video about the cost of carbon, and this interactive graph about public climate change opinions. 

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