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Climate Justice / Climate Strikes Teaching Module
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Keywords

Climate Strike
Climate Justice
Environmental Justice
Intersectionality
Social Inequality
Equity
Greta Thunberg
Climate Crisis
Climate Change
Kivalina
Standing Rock
Water Protectors
Wildfire
Camp Fire
Woolsey Fire
Hurricane Maria

How to Cite

Grosse, Corrie, and Erica Morrell. 2020. “Climate Justice / Climate Strikes Teaching Module”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, February. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/climate-justice-climate-strikes-teaching-module.

Abstract

Students around the world are leading climate strikes every Friday to call attention to and mobilize greater action to limit climate crisis and the harm it poses to all beings, especially already vulnerable, marginalized human communities. These strikes occasionally culminate in heightened weeks of action, like the September 20-27, 2019, Global Climate...

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Details

Subject Area(s):
Environmental Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assessment, Assignment, Class Activity, Lecture, PowerPoint, Video, Website
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any

Usage Notes

See Pre-Class Assignment supplemental file for readings to be assigned as pre-class homework.

Use PowerPoint (download via link in PowerPoint Link supplemental file). See instructor notes with each slide for entire presentation.

Begin class with an overview of climate change (slides 2-9). 5-10 minutes.

Introduce Greta Thunberg...

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Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

  1. Understand climate crisis, analyze "climate justice", articulate nature and history of Global Climate Strikes.
  2. Apply "equity" and "intersectionality" to real-world climate scenarios.
  3. Communicate climate justice principles to public audiences.

Goal Assessment(s):

  1. Show of hands and in-class discussion.
  2. Scenario discussions and reporting.
  3. Take Home Assignment.

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