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Share Your Climate Justice Teaching Story

April 5, 2019

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We invite you to share your teaching story about any of the climate justice lessons posted at the Zinn Education Project website. Stories from the classroom can inform and inspire more teachers to use lessons on climate justice. This will help break the silence and mis-information about climate change.
Climate Justice Free Book Spread | Zinn Education Project

We will send you a free book in appreciation for your time. Selected responses will be posted at the Zinn Education Project website on the What Teachers Are Saying page and as part of the Teach Climate Justice campaign.

Thanks to generous donations by publishers for the Teach Climate Justice campaign, you will receive one of the books below:

A People’s Curriculum for the Earth

Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Note that this offer is only for stories about the Zinn Education Project climate justice lessons.

We also have donations that allow us to offer free books in appreciation for teaching stories about Attica, The Color of Law, and Reconstruction.

Thank you in advance for your participation.

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Stories from the Climate Crisis: A Mixer

Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools.
A role play introduces students to 23 individuals around the world — each of whom is affected differently by climate change.

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Coal, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Mountaintop Removal

Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools. 15 pages.
Using chocolate chip cookie “mining,” this lively activity takes a critical look at how the coal industry teaches the impact of coal mining.

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‘Don’t Take Our Voices Away’: A Role Play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change

Teaching Activity. By Julie Treick O’Neill and Tim Swinehart. Rethinking Schools. 16 pages.
A role play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change asks students to develop a list of demands to present to the rest of the world at a climate change meeting.

Teaching Activities (Free)

Standing with Standing Rock: A Role Play on the Dakota Access Pipeline

Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Bill Bigelow, and Andrew Duden. Article by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Rethinking Schools. 15 pages.
A role play helps students recognize the issues at stake in the historic struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

Teaching Activities (Free)

The Thingamabob Game: A Simulation on Capitalism vs. the Climate

Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools.
The Thingamabob Game helps students grasp the essential relationship between climate and capitalism.

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