Climate Mental Health: Visioning Possibility

Engagement Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Center for Education

In this lesson, students will find inspiration from innovative solutions, envisioning a hopeful future and their role in it.

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This lesson could be especially helpful after exploring climate science and data to engage students' imaginations and creativity after grappling with the reality and impacts of climate change.
This activity helps to address climate overwhelm and grief by enabling students to envision solutions to climate change and connect them to their own community. It would be helpful to include background on what climate change is, which is necessary knowledge for this lesson. Teachers can find this background in the CLEAN teaching climate pages- https://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/climate/index.html. Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.
For some students, it may be helpful to have the teacher model the activity and talk through their own visioning process for students. It may also be useful to repeat the visioning process after solutions have been explored to see if what students imagine the future could be like changes after seeing some of the current work happening.