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After completing Bronze, you use (directly) a chapter of The Climate Academy Student book to teach climate change from a systems perspective. It is when we teach something that we learn most deeply.
This teaching can happen inside or outside of school.
Inside school:
Option1:
Give a presentation:
- In a Geography lesson about tipping points and how close they are.
- In an Economics lesson about the limits to growth and the paradox of innovation.
- In a Physics or Chemistry lesson about carbon budgets and why they matter.
- In a Literature lesson about how rational climate anxiety is and how irony can help.
- A History lesson about the ‘3.5% rule’ and how social tipping points can be triggered.
- In a Psychology lesson about ‘motion blindness’, ‘status quo bias’ or about ‘the grammar’ of our climate awareness.
- In a Sociology lesson about Dan Kahan’s insights into the public communication of science.
- In an Ethics or Religion class about the injustices exposed by the CUTx Index.
Option2:
- Read a book, research paper, or article - Watch a documentary or lecture - about the sustainability crisis. Present your findings to your Climate Academy group.
- How did the research advance your understanding?
- How did the research confirm or challenge your previous understanding?
- Did the book/paper/documentary/lecture properly recognise the planetary boundaries aand the background reality of the CUTx Index?
Outside school:
Give a presentation to:
- Your mum’s Tuesday Evening Knitting Group
- Present the latest science on the carbon budgets and outline the role that Global North consumerism plays in pushing us over different planetary boundaries.
- Pictured – Vappu Väänänen (Climate Academy, 2019) does exactly this.
- Your uncle’s place of work
- Present the basic science of climate tipping points and how they expose our limited and misleading media coverage of the crisis.
- A local NGO that is committed to the environment or social justice.
- Present the CUTx Index and how it can really sharpen our understanding of the causes of climate change and biodiversity loss.
How to apply for your Silver Certificate
Upload to this platform:
- A couple of photos of the event (respecting GDPR laws) (eg, no faces of other people without their consent)
- A short report of how it went:
- What you learnt.
- How did teaching deepen your understanding of the material
- What did you learn from people’s reactions?
- What was the most significant achievement in doing this?
- What would you do differently next time?
- Make a social media post (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) about the event, tagging The Climate Academy.
Badge: SILVER