• This video provides strategies for how to be involved in climate action and how to talk about climate change without feeling defeated. 
• Students will learn that approaching climate change skeptics with compassion and empathy can lead to more open dialogue. 

Positives

• This balanced and approachable method for discussing climate change will encourage students to be active listeners and thoughtful speakers.
• The video is broken up into chapters, making it easy to navigate.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with the concept of "flight, fight, or freeze."
• Students should be familiar with the terms perennial, collective action, apathetic, agitate, and empathetic.
  

Differentiation

• English language arts and life skills classes could role play climate change conversations to practice using the skills in the video.
• English and writing classes could do a writing exercise where students write about a time when they changed their mind about something and what led them to make that change.
• Other resources on this topic include this lesson and activity on writing a personal narrative on climate change, this guidebook on having climate change conversations, and this video on effective climate change dialogue. 
  

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