Climate Change Pack with Visible Thinking Skills

Visible thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching learning in all content areas and fostering students’ intellectual development at the same time. My experience in teaching with visible thinking routines showed me that it fosters greater motivation for learning and a shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners. You can check Harvard Project Zero website for more information. https://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines
This inquiry and project-based pack on climate change has been prepared with an interdisciplinary approach, so you can use it either in an English , or a Citizenship class. There are 92 slides with many texts and videos. There is a response activity after each of them and a project at the end of the unit. Students are asked to prepare a TED talk after learning how to prepare one, analyze cartoons and news reports, create a cartoon and write a news report afterwards. It includes a Quizlet activity, links for games on sustainability, links to websites for research, rubrics, self and peer evaluation forms, and reflection activities. Students are provided with choices and all activities are based on their voice to differentiate learning. As there are multiple exposures o content, you can also differentiate learning by assigning different tasks to different groups of students.
Apart from the Power Point in the attachment, I included the Google slides link in notes to the teacher section which will enable you to delete or change the content according to the needs of your students. Your students can complete all the forms on the slides version and send it to you if you are using Google classroom, which will save paper. If not, all of them are printable. The entire unit will last for 4-6 weeks depending on the number of hours you are teaching per week.