Seven Principles for Visual Climate Change Communication
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Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Social Studies
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What it is
- This guide explains Climate Outreach's research on what makes for impactful images about climate change.
- Students will learn about the seven principles for selecting images to communicate with others about the impacts of climate change.
Teaching tips
Positives
- The full report gives a very good and detailed explanation of the research findings and would be very helpful for a teacher in selecting images of climate change to use in the classroom.
Additional Prerequisites
- The report notes that the images in the guide are hyperlinked, but the links do not work.
- The recommendations in the report are helpful for teachers selecting images to use in the classroom, and for students selecting images to use in their work.
Differentiation
- Teachers could use this report in a lesson about research methodology. Students could discuss the survey methods and the researchers' conclusions.
- Students could answer the survey questions and see how the class' responses correspond to the responses that the researchers collected.
- Other resources on this topic include this gallery of climate artwork, this collection of glacier images, and this SubjectToClimate lesson plan on writing a poem based on a climate photograph.
From the scientist review
There is no misconception in this resource. This resource is recommended for teaching environmental and climate justice.
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