Meat or Veggies? The Impact of Diet on Climate

• In this media literacy lesson, students will analyze a news report and documentary clip about the effects of dietary choices on climate change.
  
• This activity includes critical thinking questions and tips for decoding media messaging.
  

Positives

• The content will be relevant to students and may spur student conversations.
  
• It provides an example of how a topic can "appear" to be debatable because someone makes a claim that is counter to the evidence.
  

Additional Prerequisites

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• You must download the videos and files.
  

Differentiation

• The questions can be easily modified to suit different levels or abilities.
• This could be a great hook for science classes that are studying ecology, environmental science, population dynamics, trophic levels, or cellular respiration.
• English language arts classes could use this resource to extend lessons about persuasive writing, opinion writing, or literacy.
• Social studies classes could use this resource for lessons about the societal effects of profit-driven businesses, particularly those that are meant to inform the public.
• Other resources that could extend this lesson include this interactive table of solutions that indicate dietary choices and food waste as two of the biggest solutions to climate change, and this video about human impacts on the planet.