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Educator GuideDecember 14, 2021

Carbon Prices and Climate Change Educator Guide

TILclimate carbon pricing guide for educators
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Robin Sommer via Unsplash

 

This Guide for Educators was developed by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative as an extension of our TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) podcast, to make it easier for you to teach climate change, earth science, and energy topics in the classroom. It is an extension of the TILclimate episode "TIL about carbon pricing."

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Description

Carbon pricing, including cap-and-trade and carbon taxes, is one tool in the toolbox governments have to reduce the impacts of climate change. What kind of a tool is it? After an introduction to carbon pricing, students use an online simulator to investigate multiple pathways to a cooler future.

 

 

SWBAT:
  • Explain the basics of a cap-and-trade and carbon tax system.

  • Understand some impacts from carbon pricing systems.

Skills:
  • Graph reading

  • Analyzing simulation data

Standards:
  • HS-ETS1-1 Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions.

  • HS-ETS1-4 Use a computer simulation to model the impact of proposed solutions to a complex real-world problem.

  • RST.11-12.9 Synthesize information from a range of sources into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept.

Disciplinary core ideas:
  • ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems

  • ESS3.D: Global Climate Change

 

What is included in this Educator Guide
  1. How to use TILclimate Educator Guides (Download)
     
  2. Teacher pages (Download)
    • Includes discussion questions, background resources, extensions, and adaptation suggestions for science, social science, and ELA teachers
       
  3. Student pages (Download)
    • An Introduction to Carbon Pricing

    • Climate Impacts investigation using the En-ROADS tool

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