SECTION 2 - Climate Change for Rookies 8+, Science & Social Studies How to Live in a Carbon-Neutral World by 2050, OPT 2, P1 AGE RANGE: 8+ Science & Social Studies SUBJECTS: OBJECTIVES • De昀椀ne the term “net zero.” • Imagine one small step learners can take as individuals to reach net zero and imagine one bigger step their family, school, town, village, neighborhood can take to reach net zero. • Learn to create stop motion animation DURATION ENDURING UNDERSTANDING • A week or more • Impact of human behavior on climate • Session duration 2 hours ACTIVITIES FIRST SESSION: • Read “Net-zero living: How your day will look in a carbon-neutral world” and “Climate Change for Rookies: Climate Change actions from large to small - in layout” (15 minutes) • Discuss and brainstorm ways we as individuals and then as a community contribute to the carbon footprint—not being carbon neutral. • Watch Guide to Lego Stop Motion (15 minutes) NOTE: Educator decides whether the 昀椀nal assessment will be a team e昀昀ort or as individual learners. If the educator creates teams, these learners become small production companies (recommend not exceeding 3 learners per team). These production companies will create stop-motion animations demonstrating their groups’ vision of a net zero future in the year 2050 and demonstrate how humans get to net zero. It is important to keep these movies single-idea focused. Learners may be used to complex action in what they watch. Stop-motion is the opposite. For example, in the 昀椀rst frame, a lego 昀椀gure walks in from the left with an axe over his shoulder and there is a single tree in front of him. A child enters from the opposite direction waving their arms and saying, “Stop! Don’t do that.” The next several frames can be a piece of paper with the child’s voice speaking over what is appearing on camera— this is literally called a voice-over, and the numbers on the paper move and change in front of the camera as the child explains that if we add one tree, we get this much oxygen and carbon reduction; take a tree away, and this happens. The last shots can be thelego 昀椀gure and a child planting a tree. • Learners choose a scene or write a simple script with 10 scenes in total. In stop-motion animation, depending on the rate each scene takes 15-30 movements or pictures per scene. A ten-scene movie takes 150 to 300 pictures to complete, as an estimate. T RESOURCES: • The Carbon Almanac - Climate Change for Rookies: What is Net Zero, p.30-31/ 755 • The Carbon Almanac - Climate Change for Rookies: Climate Change Actions from Large to Small, p.36-37/ 757 • Guide to Lego Stop-Motion • Net-zero living: How your day will look in a carbon-neutral world • Computers with access to internet for research • Low-cost effective software package like Stop Motion Studio which works on Apple and Android/windows-based phones and the company does have school discounts • Tripod for holding phones • Smartphone for recording images and sound • Lego bricks and characters • Art materials 16