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Literature Based Projects

PhotoVoice is a project where students use photos and captions to document their environment, explore climate and health issues, and advocate for change. It’s effective for raising awareness, influencing decision-makers, and highlighting environmental justice concerns through personal storytelling.
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Spotlighting problems- Storytelling

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Analyze how our capitalist economic system affects our response to climate change. Focusing on the LA fires, culminating in a mini research presentation using independent media sources.

 
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Capitalism and climate change Research presentation

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(Part of Climate Action Research Unit in World Lit) In efforts to center on Indigenous solutions and voices, this activity revolves around the documentary Inhabitants. Students watch films and take note of similarities and differences between traditional knowledge and western science.
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Learning from Indigenous solutions - Film Analysis

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Students collaborate to research one of 17 of the UN's sustainable development goals and evaluate how one region of the world has or has not made progress toward that goal. Students use their research to create creative, interactive museum exhibits to showcase their learning and educate their peers.
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UN sustainable development goals - progress research

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Students use the school-provided Gale Global Issues in Context and Gale Environmental Sciences databases to explore an issue.  In the example provided here, it's for a mini unit on water scarcity for Science & Society (please feel free to use for other disciplines!).  
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Water scarcity- exploring databases

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