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This collection offers innovative approaches to using popular forms of storytelling as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and guidance about how to engage students in productive conversations about the future with empathy and agency.
List of contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reading the Youth Climate Movement: Social Media, Literary Creation, and Allyship
Alexandra Lakind
Chapter 2: "But, What Difference Can I Make?": Using Documentaries to Explore Environmental Advocacy in the Face of Climate Change
Carley Peterson Durden and Jared Durden
Chapter 3: Educating Space-Age Environmentalists at the Elementary Level
Beverly B. Bachelder and Robert S. Bachelder
Chapter 4: Teaching Environmental Respect to Young Learners: Video Games as Environmental Texts
Erden El
Chapter 5: A City for the Future: Designing Socially Just, Sustainable Urban Environments with Elementary Students
Alexandra Laing
Chapter 6: Fostering Environmentalism and Activism in Students: Plastic Pollution as a Starting Point
Karen Ball and Elke DeVries
Chapter 7: Ecohorror, Terrorism, and Inadequate Representation of Global Warming in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening
Tatiana Konrad
Chapter 8: The Global Impact of Fast Fashion: Understanding Sustainability and Social Justice Issues
Helen Liu and Alyssa Racco
Chapter 9: Making the Material Turn: A Pedagogical Approach on Postcolonial, Social, and Ecological Issues in Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy's Essays and Fiction
Suhasini Vincent
Chapter 10: Creating Authentic Learning Experiences: Interdisciplinary Climate Change Instruction and Assessment
Mary-Alice Corliss and Rebecca L. Young
Afterword
Vandana Singh
About the Contributors
About the author
Rebecca L. Young serves as a content manager for the nonprofit education organization Cognia and as an advisor for the International Baccalaureate's Middle Years Programme in Language and Literature eAssessment.
