The Movement

• 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

• 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.  
  
• 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.

This resource addresses the listed standards. To fully meet standards, search for more related resources.

• College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
  • 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.
  • 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.