Creating a Human Climate Song
If you could send a message of hope and/or call to action about the climate crisis to someone across the world, what would it be?
During this lesson, students will reflect on climate change and its impacts on them and on the world at large. They will practice attentive listening and share personal experiences with climate-related experiences. Students will also read and respond to a poem about connections across great ocean distances. They will then work collaboratively to craft creative messages of hope in words and images to share with others who are concerned about climate change.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to connect to how climate change impacts them as individuals, as well as people in different parts of the world.
Students will be able to generate a list of actions people can take to combat climate change
Students will be able to articulate a message of hope or call to action about climate change
Materials
- Attached handout
- Writing materials
- Materials for drawing, painting or collage-making
Preview Lesson Plan
Reflection/Inquiry
5-10 minutes
Say: Today we will be discussing the impacts of climate change so that we create a message of hope rooted in tangible actions people can take to combat climate change.
As a whole group, discuss the following questions:
- What are some of the effects of climate change?
- What are some of the climate changes or weather events you have personally experienced, or been touched by?
- In what ways are people in different parts of the world impacted by the climate crisis?
