Civic-minded Solutions Matrix - National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation
Student Objectives:
Students will:
investigate civic-minded solutions that mitigate and/or adapt against the effects of global climate change on an individual, community, city, state, and national levels
Time: 45 minutes
Grade Level(s): 5th+
Vocabulary:
Civic-minded - Concerned with civic interests or active in community affairs
Community - a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common
Consumerism - the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers
Matrix - a rectangular array of quantities or expressions in rows and columns that is treated as a single entity and manipulated according to particular rules
Stewardship - is an ethic that embodies the responsible planning and management of resources
Sustainable - able to be maintained at a certain rate or level
Description/Steps:
Have students conduct the metaphor lesson to assist with setting a framework of how we affect global climate change.
Students should work in teams to fill out pre-assigned segments of the Civic-minded Solutions Matrix using the links below as starting resources. For example, students would use the links below and/or their own knowledge from home/community to fill in the "Individual/Energy" square with "What are they (the student) doing in response to energy consumption/production to help against climate change". The same would apply to the "Individual/Transportation" square. What is the student doing to reduce the effects of climate change in regards to transportation (ie., riding a bike to school, carpooling)? Then they would move onto "what is the community doing in response to...energy, transportation, etc...". The links are primarily resources to assist students as they move towards community, city, state, federal.
Students will present their findings to the class so that the rest of the students can complete their matrices.
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