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Climate Project C3 Framework Standards Alignment

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C3 Framework StandardClimate Project Course ( CO) ,Unit ( U#) , and Lesson ( L#) Objectives that support C3 skills and standards Relevant Climate Project Lessons, activities, and resources that support C3 skills and standardsD1.5.6-8. Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.D1.5.9-12. Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of view represented in the sources, the types of sources available, and the potential uses of the sources.D2.Civ.1.6-8. Distinguish the powers and responsibilities of citizens, political parties, interest groups, and the media in a variety of governmental and nongovernmental contexts. D2.Civ.1.9-12. Distinguish the powers and responsibilities of local, state, tribal, national, and international civic and political institutions.D2.Civ.6.6-8. Describe the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations in shaping people’s lives.D2.Civ.6.9-12. Critique relationships among governments, civil societies, and economic markets.D2.Civ.11.9-12. Evaluate multiple procedures for making governmental decisions at the local, state, national, and international levels in terms of the civic purposes achieved.CO3: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the most effective ways to leverage innovation and targeted action to drive decarbonization and adaptation; UO3-4: Assess the role of individuals, government, and businesses when implementing climate solutions and associated opportunities and challenges; LO3.4-1: Describe how individuals, businesses, and government can effectively address climate change and assess the relationship between those groups; LO3.4-2: Evaluate obstacles facing individuals, businesses, and government when it comes to climate action and describe strategies for overcoming those obstacles; LO5.3-1: Evaluate the importance of government policy when it comes to climate action.U3: “Working the Levers of Climate Action”; How Can We Respond to Climate Change?; Exploring the Levers of Change; U4: Decarbonization Goals Exploration; U5: Why Does Policy Matter?D2.Civ.12.6-8. Assess specific rules and laws (both actual and proposed) as means of addressing public problems.D2.Eco.1.6-8. Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.D2.Eco.1.9-12. Analyze how incentives influence choices that may result in policies with a range of costs and benefits for different groups.Climate Project C3 Framework Standards AlignmentD2.Civ.5.9-12. Evaluate citizens’ and institutions’ effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international level.D2.Civ.12.9-12. Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.D2.Eco.6.9-12. Generate possible explanations for a government role in markets when market inefficiencies exist.UO3-5: Understand the concept of the green premium and evaluate how it can be used as a tool to guide climate action; LO3.5-1: Define the term green premium and explain the role it plays in climate solutions; LO3.5-2: Explain the relationship between green premiums and behavior, policy, and innovation; LO3.5-3: Evaluate the ways the green premium can be used to assess climate solutions and inform action.CO3: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the most effective ways to leverage innovation and targeted action to drive decarbonization and adaptation; UO3-4: Assess the role of individuals, government, and businesses when implementing climate solutions and associated opportunities and challenges; LO3.4-1: Describe how individuals, businesses, and government can effectively address climate change and assess the relationship between those groups; LO3.4-2: Evaluate obstacles facing individuals, businesses, and government when it comes to climate action and describe strategies for overcoming those obstacles; LO5.3-1: Evaluate the importance of government policy when it comes to climate action.UO3-5: Understand the concept of the green premium and evaluate how it can be used as a tool to guide climate action; LO3.5-1: Define the term green premium and explain the role it plays in climate solutions; LO3.5-2: Explain the relationship between green premiums and behavior, policy, and innovation; LO3.5-3: Evaluate the ways the green premium can be used to assess climate solutions and inform action; LO5.3-1: Evaluate the importance of government policy when it comes to climate action.UO3-5: Understand the concept of the green premium and evaluate how it can be used as a tool to guide climate action; LO3.5-1: Define the term green premium and explain the role it plays in climate solutions; LO3.5-2: Explain the relationship between green premiums and behavior, policy, and innovation; LO3.5-3: Evaluate the ways the green premium can be used to assess climate solutions and inform action; LO5.3-1: Evaluate the importance of government policy when it comes to climate action.CO1: Critically assess diverse sources to fully understand the causes, impacts, and most powerful ways to address climate change; CO5: Build and apply data and digital literacy, reading, and writing skills to craft evidence-based arguments to effectively communicate about climate change; UO1-2: Use claim-testing skills to critically analyze and evaluate information surrounding climate change; LO1.1-3: Using skills such as claim testing, argumentation, and reasoning, evaluate evidence and scientific consensus regarding the reality and causes of climate change; LO1.2-3: Identify what makes a source of information credible; LO1.4.3: Using research and argumentation skills, evaluate information related to climate goals to assess the reliability of sources.U1: Making Claims About Climate Change; Introduction to Climate Change Claim Testers; Claim Testing: Evaluating Authority; Crash Course: Lateral Reading; Claim Testing: Evaluating Online Sources; U2: Claim Testing - The Impacts of Climate Change; U3: Claim Testing - Adapting to Climate ChangeUO4-4: Understand the need for decarbonization goals in different contexts and evaluate strategies for implementing goals to reduce carbon emissions; LO1.4-1: Explore climate policies to evaluate the advantages and limitations of goal setting and the need for international collaboration; LO4.4-1: Understand the difference between decarbonization goals at the international, national, and local levels; LO4.4-2: Evaluate decarbonization goals in a variety of contexts and assess the most important strategies for leveraging goals to make progress toward decarbonization.U1: International Climate Agreements: Crash Course Climate & Energy #10; U4: “Decarbonization Goals”; Decarbonization Goals ExplorationCO3: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the most effective ways to leverage innovation and targeted action to drive decarbonization and adaptation; UO3-4: Assess the role of individuals, government, and businesses when implementing climate solutions and associated opportunities and challenges; LO3.4-1: Describe how individuals, businesses, and government can effectively address climate change and assess the relationship between those groups; LO3.4-2: Evaluate obstacles facing individuals, businesses, and government when it comes to climate action and describe strategies for overcoming those obstacles; LO5.3-1: 1; Evaluate the importance of government policy when it comes to climate action.U1: International Climate Agreements: Crash Course Climate & Energy #10; U4: “Decarbonization Goals”; Decarbonization Goals ExplorationU3: What's a Green Premium?; Green Premiums: The Extra Cost to Decarbonize; “Understanding the Green Premium”; Exploring the Green PremiumU3: “Working the Levers of Climate Action”; How Can We Respond to Climate Change?; Exploring the Levers of Change; U5: Why Does Policy Matter?U3: What's a Green Premium?; Green Premiums: The Extra Cost to Decarbonize; “Understanding the Green Premium”; Exploring the Green Premium; U5: Why Does Policy Matter?U3: What's a Green Premium?; Green Premiums: The Extra Cost to Decarbonize; “Understanding the Green Premium”; Exploring the Green Premium; U5: Why Does Policy Matter?
C3 Framework Standard Climate Project Course ( CO) ,Unit ( U#) , and Lesson ( L#) Objectives that support C3 skills and standards Relevant Climate Project Lessons, activities, and resources that support C3 skills and standardsD2.Geo.3.9-12. Use geographic data to analyze variations in the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics at multiple scales.CO2: Evaluate the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems at the global, local, and personal scales; UO2-2: Analyze the impact of climate change across various regions, considering how geographical, ecological, and social factors influence these variations; LO2.1-3: Assess how the impacts of climate change vary regionally based on factors including geography and socioeconomic conditions; LO2.2-1: Identify and describe direct impacts of climate change including sea-level rise, extreme weather events, and global temperature increase.U2: “Data Exploration - Direct Impacts of Climate Change”; Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change; Climate Change Direct Impacts Organizer; “Does Half a Degree Really Matter?”D2.Geo.4.6-8. Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.D2.Geo.4.9-12. Analyze relationships and interactions within and between human and physical systems to explain reciprocal influences that occur among them.D2.Geo.10.6-8. Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.D3.1.6-8. Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.D3.1.9-12. Gather relevant information from multiple sources representing a wide range of views while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.D3.3.6-8. Identify evidence that draws information from multiple sources to support claims, noting evidentiary limitations.D3.3.9-12. Identify evidence that draws information directly and substantively from multiple sources to detect inconsistencies in evidence in order to revise or strengthen claims.D4.1.6-8. Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments.CO1: Critically assess diverse sources to fully understand the causes, impacts, and most powerful ways to address climate change; CO5: Build and apply data and digital literacy, reading, and writing skills to craft evidence-based arguments to effectively communicate about climate change; UO1-2: Use claim-testing skills to critically analyze and evaluate information surrounding climate change; LO1.1-3: Using skills such as claim testing, argumentation, and reasoning, evaluate evidence and scientific consensus regarding the reality and causes of climate change; LO1.2-3: Identify what makes a source of information credible; LO1.4.3: Using research and argumentation skills, evaluate information related to climate goals to assess the reliability of sources.U1: Making Claims About Climate Change; Introduction to Climate Change Claim Testers; Claim Testing: Evaluating Authority; Crash Course: Lateral Reading; Claim Testing: Evaluating Online Sources; U2: Claim Testing - The Impacts of Climate Change; U3: Claim Testing - Adapting to Climate ChangeU1: What is Climate Change?: Crash Course Climate & Energy #1; U2: International Climate Agreements: Crash Course Climate & Energy #10; How Will Climate Change Continue to Affect Us: Crash Course Climate & Energy #8; Are Natural Disasters Actually Natural?: Crash Course Climate & Energy #9; Climate Change Indirect ImpactsCO1: Critically assess diverse sources to fully understand the causes, impacts, and most powerful ways to address climate change: UO 2-3: Analyze how certain communities will be disproportionately impacted by climate change and how climate change will make existing inequities worse; LO2.3-1: Identify and describe indirect impacts of climate change including food security, economics, migration, and health; LO1.4-3: Explore climate policies to evaluate the advantages and limitations of goal setting and the need for international collaboration.UO 1-2: Use claim-testing skills to critically analyze and evaluate information surrounding climate change; LO1.4- 3: Using research and argumentation skills, evaluate information related to climate goals to assess the reliability of sources; LO2.2-2: Using evidenced-based research, describe how the direct impacts of climate change are experienced in different parts of the world; LO3.2.-3: Evaluate an adaptation strategy based on a limited set of criteria and advocate for its implementation; LO 4.2-2: Analyze various solutions to decarbonization and determine which Grand Challenge is most critical to emissions reduction; LO 4.2-2: Assess the benefits and challenges of evaluating climate solutions against a set of limited criteria.U1: Claim Testing: Evaluating Online Sources, Crash Course: Lateral Reading; U2: Climate Change Direct Impacts Organizer; U3: Activity - Adaptation Solution Research; Grand Challenge Solutions ResearchCO1: Critically assess diverse sources to fully understand the causes, impacts, and most powerful ways to address climate change; CO5: Build and apply data and digital literacy, reading, and writing skills to craft evidence-based arguments to effectively communicate about climate change; UO1-2: Use claim-testing skills to critically analyze and evaluate information surrounding climate change; LO1.1-3: Using skills such as claim testing, argumentation, and reasoning, evaluate evidence and scientific consensus regarding the reality and causes of climate change; LO1.2-3: Identify what makes a source of information credible; LO1.4.3: Using research and argumentation skills, evaluate information related to climate goals to assess the reliability of sources.U1: Making Claims About Climate Change; Introduction to Climate Change Claim Testers; Claim Testing: Evaluating Authority; Crash Course: Lateral Reading; Claim Testing: Evaluating Online Sources; U2: Claim Testing - The Impacts of Climate Change; U3: Claim Testing - Adapting to Climate ChangeD4.1.9-12. Construct arguments using precise and knowledgeable claims, with evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging counterclaims and evidentiary weaknesses.D2.Geo.10.9-12. Evaluate how changes in the environmental and cultural characteristics of a place or region influence spatial patterns of trade and land use.LO3.2-1: Examine various adaptation strategies and evaluate their effectiveness in different contexts; LO3.2-2: Recognize and identify communities that are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts and how adaptation solutions may benefit those groups; LO3.2-3: Evaluate an adaptation strategy based on a limited set of criteria and advocate for its implementation.CO2: Evaluate the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems at the global, local, and personal scales; UO 2-3: Analyze how certain communities will be disproportionately impacted by climate change and how climate change will make existing inequities worse; LO2.3-1: Identify and describe indirect impacts of climate change including food security, economics, migration, and health.D2.Geo.11.9-12. Evaluate how economic globalization and the expanding use of scarce resources contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among countries.D2.Geo.12.9-12. Evaluate the consequences of human-made and natural catastrophes on global trade, politics, and human migration.U2: “Data Exploration - Direct Impacts of Climate Change”; Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change; Climate Change Direct Impacts Organizer; “Does Half a Degree Really Matter?”; U3: “Adaptation Solutions”; Adapting to a Changing Climate; Adaptation Solution ResearchCO1: Critically assess diverse sources to fully understand the causes, impacts, and most powerful ways to address climate change; UO1-4: Analyze international climate targets to understand the need for and limitations of goal setting around climate change; LO1.1-1: Define the concept of climate change and explain the mechanisms that cause climate change, including natural factors and human activities; LO1.1-2: Analyze historical data and trends that demonstrate climate change over time; LO1.4-1: Explore climate policies to evaluate the advantages and limitations of goal setting and the need for international collaboration.U1: What is Climate Change?: Crash Course Climate & Energy #1; Data Exploration - How Do We Know Climate Change is Real?; International Climate Agreements: Crash Course Climate & Energy #10; “Understanding 1.5 C”U2: “The Impacts of Climate Change”; How Will Climate Change Continue to Affect Us: Crash Course Climate & Energy #8; “This Bites!”; Are Natural Disasters Actually Natural?: Crash Course Climate & Energy #9; Climate Change Indirect Impacts
C3 Framework Standard Climate Project Course ( CO) ,Unit ( U#) , and Lesson ( L#) Objectives that support C3 skills and standards Relevant Climate Project Lessons, activities, and resources that support C3 skills and standardsD4.3.6-8. Present adaptations of arguments and explanations on topics of interest to others to reach audiences and venues outside the classroom using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, and maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, and digital documentary).D4.3.9-12. Present adaptations of arguments and explanations that feature evocative ideas and perspectives on issues and topics to reach a range of audiences and venues outside the classroom using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, and maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, and digital documentary).D4.4.6-8. Critique arguments for credibility.D4.6.6-8. Draw on multiple disciplinary lenses to analyze how a specific problem can manifest itself at local, regional, and global levels over time, identifying its characteristics and causes, and the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem.D4.7.6-8. Assess their individual and collective capacities to take action to address local, regional, and global problems, taking into account a range of possible levers of power, strategies, and potential outcomes.D4.8.6-8. Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions and take action in their classrooms and schools, and in out-of-school civic contexts.UO5-1: Use climate-change knowledge to identify a medium and target audience for a civic-action campaign; UO 5-2: Apply argumentation, writing, and communication skills to evaluate and/or execute opportunities for civic action to address climate change; LO5.2-1: Using the synthesized evidence and research gathered throughout the course, communicate a proposal for climate action; LO5.2-3: Develop a clear action plan to share findings with a target audience and motivate them toward climate action.U5: Climate Solution PresentationCO1: Critically assess diverse sources to fully understand the causes, impacts, and most powerful ways to address climate change; CO5: Build and apply data and digital literacy, reading, and writing skills to craft evidence-based arguments to effectively communicate about climate change; UO1-2: Use claim-testing skills to critically analyze and evaluate information surrounding climate change; LO1.1-3: Using skills such as claim testing, argumentation, and reasoning, evaluate evidence and scientific consensus regarding the reality and causes of climate change; LO1.2-3: Identify what makes a source of information credible; LO1.4.3: Using research and argumentation skills, evaluate information related to climate goals to assess the reliability of sources.U1: Making Claims About Climate Change; Introduction to Climate Change Claim Testers; Claim Testing: Evaluating Authority; Crash Course: Lateral Reading; Claim Testing: Evaluating Online Sources; U2: Claim Testing - The Impacts of Climate Change; U3: Claim Testing - Adapting to Climate ChangeD4.4.9-12. Critique the use of claims and evidence in arguments for credibility.D4.6.9-12. Use disciplinary and interdisciplinary lenses to understand the characteristics and causes of local, regional, and global problems; instances of such problems in multiple contexts; and challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address these problems over time and place.D4.7.9-12. Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.D4.8.9-12. Apply a range of deliberative and democratic strategies and procedures to make decisions and take action in their classrooms, schools, and out-of-school civic contexts.CO1: Critically assess diverse sources to fully understand the causes, impacts, and most powerful ways to address climate change; CO2: Evaluate the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems at the global, local, and personal scales; CO3: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the most effective ways to leverage innovation and targeted action to drive decarbonization and adaptation; UO1-1: Understand the basics of climate change including its causes, effects, and the scientific principles behind it; UO2-1: Distinguish between the direct and indirect impacts of climate change and explain the significance of these categories and how they are interconnected; UO3-1: Describe the difference between adaptation and mitigation solutions and assess the need for each in responding to climate change; UO3-3: Identify existing climate solutions and explain the role of innovation in addressing climate change; UO4-4: Understand the need for decarbonization goals in different contexts and evaluate strategies for implementing goals to reduce carbon emissions.U1: What is Climate Change?: Crash Course Climate & Energy #1; Data Exploration - How Do We Know Climate Change is Real?; U2: “Data Exploration - Direct Impacts of Climate Change”; “The Impacts of Climate Change”; US: “How Can We Take on Climate Change?”; “Adaptation Solutions”; “The Solutions We Have and the Innovations We Need”; The Need for Climate Innovators; “Solutions to the Grand Challenges”; Grand Challenge Solutions Research; “Decarbonization Goals”CO3: Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the most effective ways to leverage innovation and targeted action to drive decarbonization and adaptation; CO5: Deepen an understanding of the skills needed to address climate change through civic action, education, and career readiness; UO3-4: Assess the role of individuals, government, and businesses when implementing climate solutions and associated opportunities and challenges; LO3.4-1: Describe how individuals, businesses, and government can effectively address climate change and assess the relationship between those groups; LO3.4-2: Evaluate obstacles facing individuals, businesses, and government when it comes to climate action and describe strategies for overcoming those obstacles; LO5.3-1: Evaluate the importance of government policy when it comes to climate action; UO5-1: Use climate-change knowledge to identify a medium and target audience for a civic-action campaign; UO5-2: Apply argumentation, writing, and communication skills to evaluate and/or execute opportunities for civic action to address climate change.U3: “Working the Levers of Climate Action”; How Can We Respond to Climate Change?; Exploring the Levers of Change; U5: Why Does Policy Matter?; Climate Career Exploration; Climate Change Solution Research; Climate Solution Presentation; Climate Policy Playbook Analysis and Advocacy; Investigating Civic Action; Carrying Out Civic ActionCO5: Deepen an understanding of the skills needed to address climate change through civic action, education, and career readiness; UO5-1: Use climate-change knowledge to identify a medium and target audience for a civic-action campaign; UO5-2: Apply argumentation, writing, and communication skills to evaluate and/or execute opportunities for civic action to address climate change.U5: Why Does Policy Matter?; Climate Career Exploration; Climate Change Solution Research; Climate Solution Presentation; Climate Policy Playbook Analysis and Advocacy; Investigating Civic Action; Carrying Out Civic Action