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Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Decide: Step 2 - Issue Selection
Provided by: Earth Force |Published on: April 27, 2021
Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
- In this activity, students work collaboratively to choose an environmental problem in the community that they want to solve.
- This is designed to be Step 2 in a larger community-action and problem-solving process that helps students determine what they would like to work on.
Subjects: Science, Civics, Health
Authors: Earth Force
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Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The website for this activity includes a video showing students engaged in this process and several tools to help students with the selection process.
Additional Prerequisites
- There is no lesson plan given for this activity, so you will need to construct one using the given resources.
- Review the decision-making options ahead of time and either choose one for your students to use, or work with your students to pick one.
Differentiation
- This resource can be helpful to students when learning how to work collaboratively, think critically, and evaluate a number of options or choices.
- Younger students should be guided through the process, while older students could be grouped with assigned duties to carry out the process.
- If doing the full process, be sure to have students continue to gather their work in a project portfolio for use in the final reflection in the last steps.
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About the Partner Provider
Earth Force
Earth Force engages young people as active citizens who improve the environment and their communities now and in the future. They believe that a civic experience is an essential element of education about the environment. They work to ensure that young people have this experience by helping teachers develop young people with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to solve tough environmental problems.
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