Public Service Announcement (PSA) About Climate Change (Higher Ed) part of Climate Education in an Age of Media:Use Student Media Production:Activities
Juliette Rooney-Varga, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Producing a PSA is an ideal culminating project for an interdisciplinary course on climate change and related topics. The PSA assignment requires high-level synthesis of content and, through it, students learn first-hand about the challenges of communicating about climate change to a general audience in a compelling way. The assignment offers the opportunity for students to engage with the material, consider what they want society to understand or do, use creativity and twenty-first century technology and communication tools, and become empowered to enter societal discourse about climate change.

Animation for grades 6-12 part of Climate Education in an Age of Media:Use Student Media Production:Activities
candace dunlap
Students will create an animation to represent one of the many feedback loops that influences climate change. To create their animation, students will use clay, cut paper, whiteboard or other materials commonly ...

Visual Story-Telling Project for Grades 6-12 part of Climate Education in an Age of Media:Use Student Media Production:Activities
Marian Grogan, TERC
Students will learn how to use a sequence of images to illustrate the difference between sequestering and emitting carbon.