Exploring The Truth About Climate Change

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• communication

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 8 English:

• Analyse and evaluate the ways that language features vary according to the purpose and audience of the text, and the ways that sources and quotations are used in a text (AC9E8LY03)
• Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising and expanding ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E8LY06)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy

Cross-curriculum priority:  Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 8 English achievement standards: Students create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts for different purposes and audiences, expressing and advancing ideas with supporting evidence.

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 Fact Sheet - optional
• Devices for conducting research
• Drawing materials.
• 20 Truths About Climate Change - one for each student/pair
• 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.