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What Can You Do About Climate Change?

Provided by: New York DEC |Published on: February 19, 2024

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Synopsis

This infographic explores how kids can decrease their personal contributions to climate change and suggests tasks and substitutions to mitigate climate change.
Students will learn about more sustainable forms of transportation, ways to lower a home's energy usage, and how to reduce waste.

Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences

Authors: NYSDEC Environmental Education

Region: North America, USA - Northeast, United States, Global, New York

Languages: English

Positives

This resource is specific and concise.
The actionable items for students give them a sense of agency and purpose in the climate movement.

Additional Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with climate change and the greenhouse gas effect.
Students should understand how conventional power grids contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.

Differentiation

Teachers can use this illustration as a conceptual introduction to carbon sinks.
To assess prior knowledge, the teacher can ask the class questions about sustainability before showing this graphic.
Social studies students can discuss how public transportation access differs in some parts of the country and why this matters when thinking about sustainable transportation.
This graphic can spark a classroom discussion on walkable cities, the walkability of different cities around the country, and why the walkability of a city matters when thinking about urban planning and sustainable transportation.
Students can commit to and journal about trying one of the suggestions in the graphic.

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Resource Type and Format

All resources can be used for your educational purposes with proper attribution to the content provider.