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The Environment: An International Cause
- Grade 6
- Social Studies
- People and Environments
Description
In this activity, students explore a global environmental issue and what Canada and other countries are doing to address it. They explain why climate change requires concerted action on the part of the international community and the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives. Finally, they select information that will be used to investigate the environmental issue of their choosing.
Learning goals
- I analyze international efforts to protect the environment.
- I describe the perspective of Indigenous peoples on environmental protection.
Vocabulary
- greenhouse gases
- overconsumption
- deforestation
- international cooperation
- global community
- climate change
- global warming
- Indigenous environment
- COP (Conference of the Parties)
- investigation process
- scheme
- cause
- consequence
- perspective
- issue
- microplastics
- activist
