This chapter of the Our Climate Our Future series features a video and student worksheet.
The inspirational video outlines the youth climate movement and highlights activists that are taking action and pressuring leaders to make changes now.
Teaching Tips
Positives
This video includes diverse voices, which may be motivating for many students.
Additional Prerequisites
Teachers must make a free account to access the materials.
Differentiation
Students could research personal actions they could take right away to address climate change in their home, diet, school, yard, and neighborhood.
For ELL students, consider printing out the transcript so they can read it beforehand.
The impacts of climate change on other cultures can be illustrated by resources in the Our Climate Voices series.
There is no contradiction in the resource. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 2: Civics
D2.Civ.12.9-12 Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.
D2.Civ.5.9-12 Evaluate citizens' and institutions' effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international level.
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.
Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
