Positives

• Hearing from students in several different regions of the United States will illustrate to students how the climate crisis affects people in different ways.
• Young people speaking out about the climate crisis will inspire students.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• It may help students to know the connection between climate change and natural disasters.
• It may benefit students to understand the impact of climate change on snowpack and seasonal temperatures.
• Some students may benefit from having the terms sequester, mitigate, exacerbate, and others defined before listening to the podcasts.

Differentiation

• This resource can fit within a larger unit on the social impacts of climate change.
• Students can create a podcast that addresses climate change and climate-related disasters.
• If natural disasters have recently happened in your students' community, these podcasts may help them feel less alone in the fight against extreme weather.
• This resource can augment a lesson on how the geography of a region can tell you what climate challenges it faces in the future.
• Students without internet at home can access the podcast as homework by downloading it onto their device as an MP3.