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Educator GuideDecember 21, 2021

What I Can Do About Climate Change Educator Guide

TILclimate what I can do guide for educators
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Ryoji Iwata 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 what I can do."

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Description

Many of us want to do something to help slow or prepare for climate change. But what exactly can we do? Students are guided through an activity to find an action or idea that fits their skills, interests, and motivations. Then, students have a conversation about climate change with a friend or family member and reflect on the process.

 

 

SWBAT:
  • Identify one climate-related action or idea that fits their unique interests, skills, and personality.

  • Have a conversation with a friend or family member about climate change.

Skills:
  • Communication

  • Self-reflection

Standards:
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6 Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks

Disciplinary core ideas:
  • ESS2.A Earth Materials and Systems

  • ESS2.D Weather and Climate

  • 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 materials, discussion questions, background resources, and adaptation suggestions for science, social science, and ELA teachers
       
  3. Student pages (Download)
    • What Can I Do? Venn Diagram activity

    • Talking About Climate Change

 
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