An Interdisciplinary Unit on Climate Change | Edutopia

Combining several content areas can guide students to develop a deep understanding of how climate change affects them and their community.

The goal of using informational text and interpreted data is to teach students to question bias, consider multiple perspectives, and embrace ambiguity. This is often difficult for students and requires strategic questioning and planning. One strategy is to begin with statistics that are relevant to a student’s experience. For example, in “The Water Line Project,” students could look at the impact of rising sea levels on an area of interest, like sports stadiums, art museums, and national and state parks, as a starting point for their research. From that point, students refined their research and had to focus on certain data points.

Giving students the opportunity to look critically at data and to consider the context with which the data is being analyzed opens up the conversation to begin framing future research and information.

Read the full article by Amanda Schaeffer here: An Interdisciplinary Unit on Climate Change | Edutopia