What I Can Do About Climate Change Educator Guide
Climate Portal
This resource from MIT engages students in a conversation about their unique skills and perspectives that can contribute to climate change solutions. In this discussion based activity, students will listen to a 17-minute episode from the Today I Learned: Climate podcast and reflect on the stories presented. They then work in small groups to brainstorm and discuss the intersections of their individual skills, passions, and priorities as they relate to climate change.
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Consider assigning the podcast for outside of class and encourage students to reflect on it before they discuss as a group. Social Studies and ELA teachers could incorporate this activity into a unit, or work together to compare the communication strategy with social impact. This resource includes a complete teacher and student guide. All activities are completion-based and there is no rubric or answer key. This activity is largely based on reading comprehension and discussion, which may appeal to some but not all students. The teacher guide suggests using small self-assembled groups to engage all students. It may be difficult for teachers and students to connect the podcast to the assignment, and there are a few challenges regarding the instructions in the teacher's guide. Instructions are provided for helping students who are not comfortable with diagramming and show how students can approach the activity differently, but they are unclear and may not accomplish an equivalent understanding of the material.