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Subjects

Social Studies, Civics, English Language Arts

Format

Google Docs, Google Slides

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Synopsis

Students reflect on their feelings about climate change and create a plan to take meaningful action.

Inquire: Students reflect on their feelings about the climate crisis, the actions other young people are taking to solve it, and what they can do to be part of a climate solution movement.

Investigate: Students brainstorm climate action ideas and create goals using The Wild Center's 8-Step Climate Action Project.

Inspire: Students apply the Climate Action Project design process to identify steps necessary to implement the solution to their school or community's climate problem.

Accompanying Teaching Materials

Teaching Tips

Suggestions

The Investigate and Inspire sections can be completed in subsequent lessons. Additionally, the Inquire section could be extended into one class period for more discussion time.

The Climate Action Plan project is interdisciplinary in nature and can be initiated within any middle or high school classroom.

This lesson can also be used in high school student action, global citizenship or community partnership programs, student-run clubs, or after school enrichment programs.

This Climate Action Plan provides project-based, collaborative, and service learning opportunities.

This lesson empowers students to act locally by designing and implementing a real-life project to reduce carbon pollution at their school or within their community.

The lesson provides opportunities for brainstorming, small group work, and team-building activities that highlight the importance of diverse voices, social justice issues, and community.

Teachers using this plan as a year-long implementation project should teach this lesson early in the school year.

Prerequisites

Students complete the Student Climate Attitude Survey prior to beginning this lesson and again after the lesson.

Students should have a basic understanding of what climate change is and why it is happening.

Teacher can review the following project-based learning resources:

Communication among other teachers, administrators, parents, and community members is encouraged to generate support for student-led climate action implementation.

Differentiation

Scientist Notes

By learning about eco-anxiety, students can feel more comfortable putting forth practical solutions to address climate-related problems in their schools, local communities, and society at large. This lesson has passed our science review process.

Primary Standards

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
D4.7.9-12 Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.

D4.8.9-12 Apply a range of deliberative and democratic strategies and procedures to make decisions and take action in their classrooms, schools, and out-of-school civic contexts.

Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning, alternative or opposing perspectives are addressed, and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and a range of formal and informal tasks.

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In this civics lesson, students reflect on their feelings about climate change and create an 8-step climate action plan to take meaningful action.