This video is about a young individual and her community in NC that are impacted by coal ash waste.
The resource also provides lesson plans about the effects of climate pollution in "Belleville" and an introduction to climate justice.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The activities get students working together in groups, communicating, thinking critically, and practicing empathy.
This video connects climate pollution with decreases in human health, while highlighting the inequities of climate pollution.
Additional Prerequisites
The video is available without an account but teachers must create a free account to access the lesson plans.
There are teacher preparation resources linked in the lesson plans.
You will need to prepare some materials prior to starting the lessons.
Differentiation
Students could work in groups for the issue mapping section of the Climate Justice lesson plan to help each other come up with the various connections to climate change.
For the "Belleville" lesson, students could act out a short play using the four roles identified in the lesson.
This video could be used in a social studies or economics class when discussing the environmental and public health costs of using toxic materials to produce energy.
Coal ash is harmful to environmental and human health, this resource explained the impact it poses in North Carolina. The resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
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.
MS-ESS3-4 Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Civics
D2.Civ.10.6-8 Explain the relevance of personal interests and perspectives, civic virtues, and democratic principles when people address issues and problems in government and civil society.
D2.Civ.10.9-12 Analyze the impact and the appropriate roles of personal interests and perspectives on the application of civic virtues, democratic principles, constitutional rights, and human rights.
Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
D4.6.6-8 Draw on multiple disciplinary lenses to analyze how a specific problem can manifest itself at local, regional, and global levels over time, identifying its characteristics and causes, and the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Reading: Science & Technical Subjects (6-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to important distinctions the author makes and to any gaps or inconsistencies in the account.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
