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Effective Climate Action

Driving Question: What does effective climate action look like?

Even if you have strong solutions, putting them into practice isn’t always easy. What are effective actions that people and organizations can take to promote climate solutions? Explore how working in strategic ways will allow us to amplify the impact of our actions.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe how individuals, businesses, and government can effectively address climate change.
  2. Evaluate obstacles facing these groups and describe strategies for overcoming them.

Vocab Terms:

  • carbon tax
  • greenwashing
  • innovation
  • lever of power
  • nongovernmental organization (NGO)
  • policy
  • regulation
STEP 1

Opener: Effective Climate Action

Teaching Tips

To teach this lesson step, refer to page 2 of Lesson 3.4 Teaching Guide Locked .

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There are many climate challenges—and just as many solutions. But knowing how to implement these solutions can be just as important as the solutions themselves.

STEP 2

Where Can Action Happen?

Teaching Tips

To teach this lesson step, refer to page 2 of Lesson 3.4 Teaching Guide Locked .

Our online teacher community offers suggestions for scaffolding the Three-Step Reading process. External link

Working in strategic ways at the government, business, and individual levels will help us amplify the impact of our actions. Read the article to explore the most-promising actions, and then look at a real-world example in the activity.

STEP 3

Effective Action

Teaching Tips

To teach this lesson step, refer to page 5 of Lesson 3.4 Teaching Guide Locked .

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What needs to happen in our government, corporations, and communities to slow climate change? Our friends at Crash Course dig into that question.

How Can We Respond to Climate Change? Crash Course Climate & Energy #12

We can’t change the past, but we can shape the future. Explore ways human creativity can get us out of this mess.

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
STEP 4

Climate Action Investigation

Teaching Tips

To teach this lesson step, refer to page 7 of Lesson 3.4 Teaching Guide Locked .

Comics in the classroom? Check out our Graphic Biographies Lesson Plan External link for guidance on using Graphic Biographies.

STEP 5

Closer: Effective Climate Action

Teaching Tips

To teach this lesson step, refer to page 8 of Lesson 3.4 Teaching Guide Locked .

It takes work at all levers to overcome the challenges of climate change. Try your hand at problem-solving by applying what you know about effective action.