The Movement

Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Earth and Space Sciences, Civics

Provided by ACE

What it is

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.

Positives

Prerequisites

Differentiation & Implementation

Students can 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.
Other similar resources include this video about youth activists, this media literacy resource, and this video about Greta Thunberg.

There is no contradiction in the resource. This resource is recommended for teaching.

Hosted on ourclimateourfuture.org

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Standards alignment · D4.7.6-8 + 3 more

Core Standards legacy

D4.7.6-8D4.7.6-8 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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.2CCSS.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.
D2.Civ.12.9-12D2.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.5.9-12D2.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.