Youth Climate Story: Coal Ash in North Carolina

Positives

• The activities get students working together in groups, communicating, thinking critically, and practicing empathy.
• This video connects climate pollution with decreases in human health, while highlighting the inequities of climate pollution.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• The video is available without an account but teachers must create a free account to access the lesson plans.
• There are teacher preparation resources linked in the lesson plans.  
• You will need to prepare some materials prior to starting the lessons.
  

Differentiation

• Students could work in groups for the issue mapping section of the Climate Justice lesson plan to help each other come up with the various connections to climate change.
• For the "Belleville" lesson, students could act out a short play using the four roles identified in the lesson.
• This video could be used in a social studies or economics class when discussing the environmental and public health costs of using toxic materials to produce energy. 
  
• Other resources about climate justice and pollution include this article by the Climate Reality Project, this interactive resource about air pollution, and this StC lesson plan.