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Climate Emotions Wheel Guide
Provided by: Climate Mental Health Network
Cultivates 21st Century SkillsActivity - Classroom Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
This guide to emotions describes the many feelings people may experience when learning about climate change. The included climate emotions wheel activity allows students to write and draw whatever representation of the climate emotions they feel most often in each segment of the wheel and encourages them to share their feelings with others. This activity is based on research from the University of Helsinki and is available in 15 different languages.
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Subjects: ART, HLTH
Authors: Panu Pihkala, Anya Kamenetz
Region: Global
Key Focus Areas
Core Component 1: Cultivating Agency through Technology, Leadership Skills, and Multifaceted Literacies
Students will learn how to use their emotions to energize them towards climate action. For example, the guide suggests channeling outrage into climate action, which will lead them to feelings of pride or empowerment.
Core Component 2: Build Emotional Strength for Climate Advocacy
The guide provides students with prompts and guidance to work through emotions, recognize their purpose, and make them constructive. Students learn strategies for dealing with emotions. Students will identify their most common climate emotions and work through prompts to deal with them.
Core Component 3: Global Competence and Citizenship Development
Students are encouraged to seek out others to have conversations and find common ground. Students will understand that they are not alone in their climate emotions.
This lesson also leans into the ideas of:
Details
- This guide is an excellent tool for students to use throughout their climate education journey.
- Students should have a basic understanding of climate change to better connect with the material and recognize emotions they have felt.
- Teachers can facilitate journaling exercises where students respond to the prompts in the guide.
- These wheel worksheets may be helpful to use as well: Climate Emotions Wheel worksheet and Climate Emotions Wheel Emojis worksheet.
- These resources have been carefully selected and reviewed by ECCLPs. Please note that they have not undergone SubjectToClimate's independent review process.
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