This lesson attempts to answer these four learning questions:
What is ‘climate chaos’?
What is extinction rebellion and it’s aims?
What is non violent direct action (NVDA)?
Is it an effective way to create social change?
What do you think about it?
After briefly exploring the impact of 1-6 degrees climate change, this lesson looks at the actions of the extinction rebellion movement as a modern example of NVDA. Briefly looking at the history of Greta Thunberg’s school strikes, which are ongoing, it shows XR’s aims and methods through a Guardian documentary. The four videos which can be used for this are included in the resource. Drawing on a brief history of NVDA (civil rights, sufragettes, indian independence and more recently black lives matter and the occupy movement) it then encourages students to evaluate the effectiveness of this mode of political engagement.
Extension task available of a group task exploring the ways the planet and climate change affects our air, earth, water, resources, food AND climate.
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Excellent resource- thank you. I will use this to introduce topics in order to join in the school climate strike this month.
Thank you for producing this very relevant resource just as I was planning a PSHE lesson on this. Looking forward to teaching this lesson and I am sure the students will find it engaging.
So great to have this resource here on TES and thank you for putting it together. There is a lot of information that can be drawn from and differentiated for different groups of students. The clips are excellent.
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