Positives

• Music and embedded audio clips enhance engagement with student listeners.
• A transcript is provided, so teachers can have students read along as they listen.
• Since there are so many helpful YouTube videos that correspond with the podcast, teachers can easily break the lesson into more in-depth segments.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• There are eight links to YouTube videos about lithium and electric cars, but the second link is broken and the fourth link requires the user to sign in.
• Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," is mentioned, so teachers should be prepared for questions about it.

Differentiation

• Several countries are mentioned as producing and refining lithium, so teachers may wish to provide world maps or digital globes as visual aids.
• Since lithium and electric cars are the main ideas of the podcast, English teachers can have students research the concepts, and then create objective paragraphs containing the additional information they will discover. 
• The geopolitical landscape, as it relates to clean energy, is mentioned at length, so Social Studies teachers can have students listen to the podcast, and then conduct further research into the politics of modern energy efficiency. 
• A discussion of market power and strategy (as they relate to energy) is introduced, so Economics teachers can have students build upon the information in the podcast to create small-group presentations comparing and contrasting U.S. and Chinese market strategies.

• The podcast ends with no clear answers provided, so teachers may wish to continue the discussion regarding the production of lithium.