Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Seven Principles for Visual Climate Change Communication
Provided by: Climate Outreach |Published on: May 9, 2021
Ebooks Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
- This guide explains Climate Outreach's research on what makes for impactful images about climate change.
- Students will learn about the seven principles for selecting images to communicate with others about the impacts of climate change.
Subjects: Social Studies
Authors: Climate Outreach, Climate Visuals
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The full report gives a very good and detailed explanation of the research findings and would be very helpful for a teacher in selecting images of climate change to use in the classroom.
Additional Prerequisites
- The report notes that the images in the guide are hyperlinked, but the links do not work.
- The recommendations in the report are helpful for teachers selecting images to use in the classroom, and for students selecting images to use in their work.
Differentiation
- Teachers could use this report in a lesson about research methodology. Students could discuss the survey methods and the researchers' conclusions.
- Students could answer the survey questions and see how the class' responses correspond to the responses that the researchers collected.
- Other resources on this topic include this gallery of climate artwork, this collection of glacier images, and this SubjectToClimate lesson plan on writing a poem based on a climate photograph.
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About the Partner Provider
Climate Outreach
Climate Outreach helps people understand the complex issue of climate change in ways that resonate with their sense of identity, values, and worldview. They aim to create informed consent and support from people across society and around the world, in order to create a social mandate for climate action.
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