What Can You Do About Climate Change?

Positives

• This resource is specific and concise.
• The actionable items for students give them a sense of agency and purpose in the climate movement.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with climate change and the greenhouse gas effect.
• Students should understand how conventional power grids contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.
  

Differentiation

• Teachers can use this illustration as a conceptual introduction to carbon sinks.
• To assess prior knowledge, the teacher can ask the class questions about sustainability before showing this graphic.
• Social studies students can discuss how public transportation access differs in some parts of the country and why this matters when thinking about sustainable transportation.
• This graphic can spark a classroom discussion on walkable cities, the walkability of different cities around the country, and why the walkability of a city matters when thinking about urban planning and sustainable transportation.
• Students can commit to and journal about trying one of the suggestions in the graphic.