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Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Decide: Step 4 - Goal and Strategy Selection
Provided by: Earth Force |Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- In this activity, students collectively select the goals they would like to achieve and choose a way to address the environmental challenge selected.
- Students design and determine strategies for reaching the goals in a realistic manner.
Subjects: Science, Civics
Authors: Earth Force
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Languages: English
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Positives
- There are many exemplars given that can be reviewed with students.
- This activity relies heavily on students learning how to make collective decisions democratically and it provides many resources for teaching students how to do this.
Additional Prerequisites
- Review the resources linked to gain additional ideas for implementing this activity.
Differentiation
- This is one step in a larger problem-solving process that can be applied to many subjects and classes.
- 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 step.
- Guide younger students through the process and determine the best method for privately voting on the criteria.
- It includes a Google Doc resource specifically about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion that can be utilized in social studies classes.
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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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