Climate Action Project - Inspiring Change in Schools
Urgent climate change issues were explored this week, emphasizing the importance of everyone's involvement. The impact of climate change on Earth and the significance of climate justice were highlighted. Climate anxiety and global solutions were discussed, emphasizing that personal actions can lead to significant impacts. The focus was on planning and implementing a whole-class project to raise awareness and inspire action in schools, with ideas like posters with QR codes and a QR code scavenger hunt throughout the school. The final project action plan involved analyzing successful campaigns, generating ideas for a whole-school action, deciding on a specific action as a class, planning necessary steps, assigning responsibilities, and setting project goals.
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DAY 8- FINAL PROJECT Reflect on what you learned this week. Plan, create and implement a final whole-class project.
DO NOW Talk with your neighbor about these questions. 1. What do you think makes an action or a campaign impactful or successful? What would make you want to participate in a whole-school action, like filling out a form or scanning a QR code? What do you wish could have been different about this unit? 2. 3. Share out This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA.
SUMMARY 1. Climate change is very urgent and harmful. Everyone is needed in this crisis. 2. Climate change effects every inch of the Earth in tremendously disruptive ways, though not equally. 3. BIPOC communities unfairly bear the brunt of climate change. Climate justice is incredibly important and is needed not only to solve climate change but to do it equitably. 4. Climate change affects every one of us, although in different ways. Making climate change a personal topic can help inspire climate action.
SUMMARY CONTINUED 5. Climate anxiety is the worry about the environmental crisis, and it's affects. Although it is not inherently bad, it affects many people. Some coping methods are mindfulness, going outside and talking about it. 6. There are countless global solutions at hand that we need to implement. Solutions include carbon sequestration, cutting emissions and adaptation. 7. Personal action, although small, can have a big impact. Some things individuals can do are talking to others and spreading awareness,contacting leaders and politicians and being environmentally conscious about your actions.
o A whole-school action we do as a class o Timeline: we only have a few days, but we have lots of people that can help. o Examples: Posters with information or climate actions people can take FINAL PROJECT OVERVIEW Posters with QR codes around the school linking to resources or a whole-school Padlet where there are discussion prompts A QR code scavenger hunt Info on how to contact legislators
FINAL PROJECT ACTION PLAN 1. With a partner or on your own, look over the Guardian article on successful campaigns. What about these actions drew people in? Why was it impactful? How can you do an impactful action? 2. Click on the Padlet link in Schoology and write down at least two ideas of a one-time whole-school action we could do. 3. As a class, review the Padlet and possibly hold a vote to choose an action. 4. Plan out: What are the steps we need to do to complete this action? Who is going to do which steps? Do we need permission? How should we get the word out? How do you want to close it out? Project goals
Final Project Individual Reflection This is your final assignment and is graded. 1-2 paragraphs in response. 1. Give a summary of the final action you worked on and your team's goals. 2. What was your contribution to the group? What did you add to the final action? 3. What was your final take-away from this day and this unit? How are you going to change or go forward after this? 4. Set 1-2 achievable goals for how you want to change going forward. Keep in mind what you learned throughout the unit.
DO THE BEFORE AND AFTER SURVEY Please take the survey that you took at the beginning of the unit! This provides feedback for the creator and helps you reflect on this unit. Thank you!
