A Fair World?
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Lesson Plans
Subjects: Science, Civics, Health
Authors: ClimateScience
Location: Earth
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Synopsis
- This interactive course about equality and solving climate change includes sections on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), human health, solving poverty, the power of school, and women and climate change.
- This course contains text, interactive questions, infographics, links to references, a video, and two sections at the end called "Open Problems" and "Final Quiz."
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Positives
- This course does a nice job of connecting inequality and climate change, showing that solutions for one can address both.
- Students can earn a certificate if they complete the course.
Additional Prerequisites
- This course is part of a series of climate change courses from ClimateScience.
- Students will need a computer and Internet connection to use the interactive features and watch the video.
- Teachers and students will need to enroll and create a free account to use the course and save their progress.
Differentiation
- Stronger students can spend time reading and exploring any of the links to scientific papers and reports.
- Students can proceed through this course at their own pace.
- Cross-curricular connections could be made with economics, geography, and civics classes when discussing the current and predicted effects of climate change on human communities and the benefits associated with addressing humans rights disparities that also address climate change.
- Other resources related to this topic include this table of solutions, Kaya Identity: Drivers of CO2 Emissions and this video about gender equality and education.
The resource underscores the importance of the SDGs and the steps to take strategic action to achieving the SDGs and targets in order to reduce global inequality. Additional links contained in the resource is valid. Thus, this resource is recommended for teaching.
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