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Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Climate Catastrophe - How Did We Get Here?!
Provided by: Jack Harries |Published on: July 1, 2022
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Synopsis
- This informative video explains how humans discovered ways to harness the power of fossil fuels to expand agriculture and industry and how the energy source led to climate change.
- Students will learn about the causes of our changing climate and the crisis humanity is facing as the planet warms.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, History
Authors: Earthrise, Jack Harries
Region: Global
Languages: English
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Positives
- This video is entertaining and informative.
- The video does an excellent job of mixing history and science.
Additional Prerequisites
- An ad plays before the video.
Differentiation
- This video would work equally well in history or science classes.
- Cross-curricular connections could be made in language arts classes that are reading or writing about climate change or fossil fuels.
- Before playing the video, have a whole class or partner conversation about the history of fossil fuels to prime student engagement. Revisit the conversation after the video to recap the main points.
- Other related resources include this article about the history of American dependence on oil, this video about the cost of carbon, and this interactive graph about public climate change opinions.
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