Climate Literacy: Living With Climate Change

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• problem solving
• prototyping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 10 Science:

• Use models of energy flow between the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere to explain patterns of global climate change (AC9S10U04)
• Investigate how advances in technologies enable advances in science, and how science has contributed to developments in technologies and engineering (AC9S10H02)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking

Syllabus outcomes: SC5-ENV-01

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 10 Science achievement standards: Students describe trends in patterns of global climate change and identify causal factors. They analyse the relationship between science, technologies and engineering.

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.

• Butchers paper and markers
• Climate Change Fact Sheet - optional
• Devices for students to conduct research 
• Materials for creating designs, e.g. drawing materials or 3D model-making materials
• Pitch Fact Sheet 
• Pitch Rubric
• Student Worksheet - one per 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 - oversee class discussions 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.