Step By Step

STAGE ONE

1. Building Your Dream Team
   • Select students
   • Build Community
     • Icebreakers
     • Heart to Hearts
     • Eat together, Play together
2. Introduce The Theme
   • A Poem: Here We Are, at the Beginning and the End, The Future Now
   • An Invitational Letter from the Hosts
3. Taking the Temperature of Our Kids
   • Google Forms Survey
4. Priming the Pump: Literature and Media Survey and Research
   • The Great Silence by Ted Chiang
     • Read aloud together - teachers will facilitate discussion using the Questions posted on the Site
     • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
       • Read the first chapter ‘Cascades’
       • Conduct Accountable Talk and Group Discussion
         • Accountable Talk Procedural Guide
         • Students document key points of Accountable Talks onto White Boards/poster board/large paper, or digitally
         • Share aloud to whole group
         • Follow-up discussion
   • An Inconvenient Truth
     • Watch together as a group
     • Follow up discussion
   • For those with additional time...Other possibilities to explore:
     • Our Planet - Netflix
     • Dirt! The Movie - PBS Documentary
     • Gasland Documentary by Josh Fox
   1. “Where Our World Begins: Politics, Power, and the Green New Deal” by Kevin Baker, Harper’s magazi

STAGE TWO

1. Identification of Issue(s) - Digging Deeper in Your Community - RESEARCH

• Observe, Analyze the Community
  • What are the most critical and pressing issues of survival for the community as a whole? Start with the basics: water, food, shelter and then beyond
    • Consider these ideas:
      1. Infrastructure
         • Water Systems
         • Clean water
         • Sewage Treatment
         • Structural Integrity and Weather weaknesses
         • Sea walls
         • Levees
         • Flood plains on rivers
         • Buildings
         • Roads and bridges
      2. Energy
         • Renewable, sustainable
         • The trappings of the fossil fuel age
         • Pollution and greenhouse gasses
         • Loss of jobs and what to replace them with
      3. Food
         • The challenges of our addiction to flesh
         • Adopting plant based diets
         • Pollinators
         • Flood and draught
         • Waste
      4. Energy - Food - Water Nexus
      5. Shelter
         • Sustainability
         • ‘Green building’
         • Structural Integrity
         • Location, location, location
         • Population density
         • Population displacement
      6. Health
         • New resistant bacteria and viruses due to the warming climate
         • See weather events and natural disasters
      7. Weather Events and ‘Natural’ Disasters
         • Heat
         • Flood
         • Fire
         • Draught
      8. Government Policy as it relates to all of the above
      9. What are the most critical and pressing issues of survival for unique groups? Think EQUITY and JUSTICE. Survival for all - not for some.

2. Create a Haiku Deck based around the critical issues within your community/city/state/region. This will be shared with the entire MCNC Student Leadership Community. See directions for guidance. Mott will be posting an example of their own.

STAGE THREE

1. Download the Discord App for future communication/chatting and jam sessions Download Directions for Discord App Use the invite link to join the discord server...
   1. https://discord.gg/yeSpebF
2. Context Analysis - and digging even deeper...
   • Conduct Context Analysis using the lesson plan provided to determine the focus of your survival project
3. Develop a Problem Statement
   • Create the problem Statement
   • Share your problem statement, rationale and how you will proceed
   • In Depth Research of the Survival Issue you have identified in your community:
     • Follow the Design Thinking Process - see Procedural Guide*
     • Testing and Exploring - Seeking Expert Advice and Analysis
       • Find experts in your community or regionally
         • What do they know that they can share
       1. If we do this, then what results might we see in:
          • Health
          • Energy
          • Infrastructure
          • Social Consequences
          • Law and Policy
          • Cost Analysis - Finances
       2. Revision of Problem Statement/Focus given Expert Feedback
4. Envision a Campaign to Create Positive and Long-Term Change
   • Awareness Raising, Solutions, Policy Proposals
     • Local or Regional
     • Focused
     • Realistic and Reasonable
     • Concrete
     • An eye toward equity
5. Develop a Campaign
   • Communication Ephemera
     • Posters WPA style
     • Campaign Slogan
     • Informational Handout - succinct, concise, direct
     • Develop an elevator speech
     • Social Media
     • Button Making
     • Podcasts
     • -zines
     • websites
     • Awareness Raising
     • Policy Maker Meetings
     • An Event