Drive it Down! – climate change discussions
This activity is designed to raise student awareness and discussion about the complexities of climate change – exploring issues, solutions, people and places. It also highlights the diversity of careers involved in tackling these socioecological challenges.
Discussion cards
To explore the complexities of climate change, students can look at issue cards and then combine them with solution, habitat and profession cards to make a set.
The activity uses cards organised into four categories of:
issues
solutions
places/habitats
professions.
Students select cards from each category to make sets – matching an issue with a place along with a solution and the people who provide information and help to create change. There are no right or wrong answers – reflecting the complexities and challenges presented by climate change. This shows there is often more than one solution to an issue or more than one profession that is needed to work on a solution.
It also includes blank cards. These are intended for use as open/safe spaces for ākonga to propose their own ideas – fostering their relationship with places/habitats, issues and solutions as well as exposing them to possible careers in this field.
In this activity, students use cards to explore the complexity of climate change issues, some solutions and the connections with our places and professions.
By the end of the activity, students should be able to:
use the discussion cards to match an issue to a corresponding place along with a solution and the professionals who work towards this solution
use literacy skills to find additional information about issues and solutions
discuss why they’ve chosen these cards to make a set
begin to understand that climate change issues are not linear – they impact multiple places and habitats
begin to understand that climate change issues often require/involve several solutions
consider a range of careers.
Download the Word file (see link below).
