Positives

• The article provides an introduction, methodology, and results in determining the potential impact of clean stoves as a climate solution.
• This resource also provides ways that individuals can contribute to the solution.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with terms like CO₂ equivalent, emissions, energy efficiency, and pollution.
• Consider showing students this interactive table of solutions to see the rankings of solutions by scenario on the Drawdown website.

Differentiation

• Some of the language in the article may be advanced for younger students. It may be helpful to read the article as a class or in groups, or engage in a class discussion about each section of the article to ensure students' comprehension.
• This resource can also be used in health classes during lessons about the impacts of air pollution and black carbon on respiratory health or in math and science classes during lessons about developing equations and data analysis.
• The article touches on the disproportionate impact that gathering the wood for polluting stoves and fuels and breathing in the pollutants while cooking can have on women and girls, which the teacher can expand upon. Challenge students to think about household labor and women, women's health, girl's access to education, and where in the world women are most likely to be impacted.
• Social studies classes can discuss this win-win climate solution when discussing climate justice and gender equity.