In this lesson students will participate in a warm-up based on the homework, a hats activity involving different perspectives, and the Adobe Spark introduction.
Full lesson plan on Google Docs:
Warm-up
Materials:
Student’s climate implication examples from homework
Enough students to make pairs
Instructions
Students have their climate implication examples ready from lesson 1 in class
Assign students into pairs (or have them choose); if there’s an odd number a group of three is fine
Instruct the students to take turns sharing with their partner the implication of climate change they found (3mins)
Now, pairs are to group together with another pair to create groups of 4-5 (depending on numbers)
Hand out perspective discussion questions and have students take turns making connections with their questions and their climate implication scenarios
Other Options
Begin in groups of 4-5 as opposed to pairs
Provide discussion questions provided or make other discussion questions depending on objective(s)
Speaking Activity: Hats
This activity will allow students to use the previousley learned vocabulary to have a conversation about climate issues from multiple perspectives.
Separate the class into equal groups (3-6 students per group is best)
Give each group a scenario card and one of each color hat (Appendix A)
Have the students place the hat cards upside down and shuffle them. Then each student will pick a hat card at random. This card will be the “hat” that each student assumes and will inform the position they have to take on the issues in the scenario card. (Appendix B)
Adobe Spark
Materials:
Adobe Spark Video Rubric
Example Adobe Spark Video
Activity: Adobe Spark Homework Assignment
Steps & Teacher Directions:
Show an example video created by the instructor
Instructions on the video
Go through the rubric