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Project Drawdown

Grades

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

Subjects

Science, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences

Resource Types

  • Videos, 13 minutes, 57 seconds, CC
  • Charts, Graphs, and Tables

Regional Focus

Global

Format

YouTube Video

Climate Solutions 101: Supporting Sinks and Improving Society

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Synopsis
  • This video highlights the importance of maintaining and augmenting natural carbon sinks, developing engineered carbon sinks, and improving society to fight climate change. 
  • Students will hear how preserving existing forests, introducing regenerative agricultural practices, protecting wetlands, and converting degraded farmland into carbon sinks can help reduce climate change. 
  • Downloadable graphics, links to more information, and a related video discussion on climate solutions for adapting to climate change and mitigating climate change are included below the video. 
Teaching Tips

Positives

  • The video introduces the concept of solutions that provide dual benefits such as protecting coastal wetlands because they are both carbon sinks and they act as barriers during storms.  
  • The video does not shy away from the imminent danger of climate change, but it also does a good job of focusing the message on the vast number of solutions available to combat the negative effects of greenhouse gases. 

Additional Prerequisites

  • The video does not explain the chemistry of carbon sinks. 
  • This video is the fourth of six videos in the "Climate Solutions 101" series. 

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Scientist Notes
Project Drawdown applies stringent research standards to their products and all of the information presented in this resource is independently verifiable. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
  • Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
    • ESS2: Earth's Systems
      • HS-ESS2-4 Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth’s systems result in changes in climate.
      • HS-ESS2-6 Develop a quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
    • ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
      • MS-ESS3-3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
      • HS-ESS3-6 Use a computational representation to illustrate the relationships among Earth systems and how those relationships are being modified due to human activity.
    • ETS1: Engineering Design
      • HS-ETS1-1 Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
    • Dimension 1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
      • D1.3.6-8. Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question.
    • 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.
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