Climate Solutions 101: Making It All Happen
Grades: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, AP
Type: Videos
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Engineering
Authors: Project Drawdown
Location: Earth
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Synopsis
- This video from Project Drawdown discusses how to start enacting the many solutions to climate change, including the cost savings and social benefits that these solutions provide.
- It discusses the implementation required and identifies solutions that span from individual actions to large-scale changes in regulations, agriculture, investments, transportation, and government expenditures.
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This is a positive video that encourages people to take action and support climate solutions.
- The video can be divided up into shorter sections, if needed.
Prerequisites
- Students should be familiar with topics such as taxes, government subsidies that support certain industries, and climate change.
- The narrator says "hell" at 56 seconds into the video.
- This is the final video in a series of six videos from Project Drawdown called "Climate Solutions 101."
Differentiation & Implementation
- This video could be used as an exit ticket for STEM classes after learning about climate change.
- There are additional links to more information for extension material.
- Students could research the various solutions to climate change in more detail using this table of solutions.
- Other resources about climate change solutions include this video on empowering women and girls, this StC lesson on solutions to climate change, this StC lesson on Wangari Maathai and deforestation, and this video about food waste.
The resource presents immediate solutions for climate change with action plans to improve environmental sustainability and enhance economic development. The resource is recommended for teaching.
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