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Clothing and Climate Change

Summary of Lesson Plans

During this project, your students will explore the climate impacts of their clothing choices. Students will plan and complete actions that address this problem while demonstrating knowledge of curriculum outcomes and global competencies. Learning about climate change through the lens of clothing will engage students and empower them to take action in an area where they have a fair amount of agency. 

Click on the different sections below to learn more about how this project is sequenced: 

Lesson Description 

In this section, students will:  

  • Reflect on their own clothing choices.
  • Watch a short video to identify the environmental impacts of clothing.
  • Begin to brainstorm ways to address this problem.

Start

Lesson Description 

In this section, students will:  

  • Reflect on their own clothing choices.
  • Watch a short video to identify the environmental impacts of clothing.
  • Begin to brainstorm ways to address this problem.

Lesson Description

In this section, students will:

  • Choose how they will take action. 
  • Co-construct criteria for a successful action. 
  • Create an Action Plan.

Choose an Action

Lesson Description

In this section, students will:

  • Choose how they will take action. 
  • Co-construct criteria for a successful action. 
  • Create an Action Plan.

Lesson Description

In this section, students will: 

  • Explore how our clothing system impacts the environment through the following mini lessons
    1. The Carbon Cycle
    2. What Clothes are Made of
    3. The Life Cycle of Clothing
  • Implement their Action Plans during structured work time

Learn

Lesson Description

In this section, students will: 

  • Explore how our clothing system impacts the environment through the following mini lessons
    1. The Carbon Cycle
    2. What Clothes are Made of
    3. The Life Cycle of Clothing
  • Implement their Action Plans during structured work time

Lesson Description

In this section, students:

  • Share the ways that they have taken action.
  • Reflect on what they’ve learned

Share

Lesson Description

In this section, students:

  • Share the ways that they have taken action.
  • Reflect on what they’ve learned

Lesson Description 

In this section, students will:  

  • Reflect on their own clothing choices.
  • Watch a short video to identify the environmental impacts of clothing.
  • Begin to brainstorm ways to address this problem.

Start

Lesson Description 

In this section, students will:  

  • Reflect on their own clothing choices.
  • Watch a short video to identify the environmental impacts of clothing.
  • Begin to brainstorm ways to address this problem.

Lesson Description

In this section, students will:

  • Choose how they will take action. 
  • Co-construct criteria for a successful action. 
  • Create an Action Plan.

Choose an Action

Lesson Description

In this section, students will:

  • Choose how they will take action. 
  • Co-construct criteria for a successful action. 
  • Create an Action Plan.

Lesson Description

In this section, students will: 

  • Explore how our clothing system impacts the environment through the following mini lessons
    1. The Carbon Cycle
    2. What Clothes are Made of
    3. The Life Cycle of Clothing
  • Implement their Action Plans during structured work time

Learn

Lesson Description

In this section, students will: 

  • Explore how our clothing system impacts the environment through the following mini lessons
    1. The Carbon Cycle
    2. What Clothes are Made of
    3. The Life Cycle of Clothing
  • Implement their Action Plans during structured work time

Lesson Description

In this section, students:

  • Share the ways that they have taken action.
  • Reflect on what they’ve learned

Share

Lesson Description

In this section, students:

  • Share the ways that they have taken action.
  • Reflect on what they’ve learned