Personal Action
Provided by: ClimateScience |Published on: April 27, 2021
Interactive Media Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
- This course about taking personal action to address climate change includes sections on a sustainable diet, flying and driving, consumption, having children, activism, and how much personal actions matter.
- It contains text, interactive questions, infographics, links to references, a final quiz, and a certificate of completion.
Subjects: Science
Authors: ClimateScience
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- It outlines many different ways individuals can take action and helps students gauge the relative impact of those actions.
- Students can proceed through the content at their own pace.
- Students earn a certificate if they complete the course.
Additional Prerequisites
- This course is part of a series of climate change courses from ClimateScience.
- Students will need a computer and Internet connection to use the interactive features.
- Teachers and students will need to enroll and create a free account to use the course and save their progress.
Differentiation
- This course provides two levels of learning. Before enrolling in the course, users can scroll down and use the button to toggle between. "Simple" and "Advanced." The "Simple" setting is recommended for middle school students, while the "Advanced" setting is recommended for high school students.
- As an extension, students can research and present other possible solutions to aging populations in developed countries, such as making it easier for climate migrants/refugees/international students/etc. to immigrate to those countries.
- Other related resources include this climate action lesson plan, this Project Drawdown article about health and education, and this StC lesson plan about the impacts of food.
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About the Partner Provider
ClimateScience
ClimateScience inspires young talents to seek careers in fields where they contribute to climate solutions. By providing beautifully illustrated, understandable, science-based educational content for free for everyone, they are building the fundamentals for Climate Education.
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