Climate Literacy: Climate Change Denial And Disinformation

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• community engagement

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 10 Geography:

• The environmental world views of people and their implications for environmental management (AC9HG10K02)
• Create descriptions, explanations and responses, using geographical knowledge and geographical tools as appropriate, and concepts and terms that incorporate and acknowledge research findings (AC9HG10S06)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy, Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 10 Geography achievement standards: Students explain the effects of human activity on environments, and the effect of environments on human activity, over time. They evaluate the implications of a distribution.

UN SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

• Target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.

• Climate Change Definitions
• Climate Change Fact Sheet - optional
• Devices capable of creating and editing a short video (e.g. phones or iPads)
• Devices with internet access for students to conduct research
• Myths about Climate Change
• Student Worksheet - one copy for each student
• Teacher support - Talking About Climate Change Fact Sheet.

Resources can be found in the Lesson Plan above.

These lessons draw on concepts from the Carbon Almanac.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - guide class discussion and lead students in independent and group activities.

How To Teach Sustainability With Hope 

Quick Summary: This course will help you find out how to bring hope to challenging, upsetting or worrying topics around sustainability.