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Teach-In How To Sheets

You can download, save, and edit these sheets to plan your Teach-In. 

• University Model 
• 6-12 Schools Model
• Museums & Art Institutions Model
• Student Model (Easiest!)
• Faith Model
• #CoTeachForClimate
• #MakeClimateAClass

Below are posters for spreading the word about hosting a Teach-In we hope to soon have these in various languages for download. You can check out a full set of posters, graphics, and logos in this 2023 Logos Folder.

Talking About Climate

The juried competition of The Worldwide Teach-in on Climate and Justice  is now complete.  The competition involved two rounds of judging. We received 40 entries. One set of judges selected 10 semi-finalists. Another set of judges selected the 3 winners. The judges included playwrights, actors, professors and students. 

The Worldwide Teach-In and the playwrights encourage students and others to perform these plays as part of your Teach-In. Please direct any questions to Contact.SolveClimate@gmail.com and we will share them with the playwrights.

The selected plays are: 

In "All the Way Back”, Donna Latham, a feminist playwright from Chicago, IL writes about the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey where emotions run high as Houston residents seek refuge and come together for a common goal. Latham writes an interesting dialogue of a diverse set of strangers facing the same crisis, where themes of climate denialism and conflicting viewpoints set the characters apart, though we are reminded of their shared humanity towards the end. Read the full play here, and visit this link for a Q&A with the writer.

In “What Lies in the Fire”, E. Salvador Chapman, a student at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Sante Fe, NM touches on themes of Indigenous knowledge, religion, and wildfires to tell a story about a futuristic world in which society has learned to rebuild and be resilient in the face of climate disasters. An audience in 2120 watches a recording of two firefighters in the American Southwest in 2020 post-wildfires as they search for signs of life that culminate in an important lesson for the future. Read the full play here, and visit this link for a Q&A with the writer.

“When Birds Fly Away”, written in native Urdu, is by Maha Hasan, an environmental engineer and trained theater and screen actor from Pakistan. In the play, an anxious old man strikes up a conversation with a strange young man who shares his bread with some wild birds. Slowly, the dialogue between them unravels how the two of them and the wild birds suffer a similar fate because of climate change. The play unravels the intricacies of what it means to be uprooted from one's ecosystem and provokes a discussion on the correlation between climate change and social inequity.  Read the full play in Urdu here, and in English here, and visit this link for a Q&A with the writer. View on Google Drive

Climate Change Song developed by 2022 Social Media Interns: 

Audio Link

CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE (We Will Rise Up!)
Lyrics by Faith Caubang, Hannah Beraquit, Carlo Perete, Alec Buenaventura
Arranged by Alec Buenaventura

VERSE 1
Is this what it means for us to keep living?
To witness the world slowly dying
Why don’t you open your eyes, open your eyes, open your eyes
Why don't you go heed signs, go heed the signs, go heed the signs

VERSE 2
Temperature's rising, more than we can bear
Fossil fuels burned; shouldn't we care?
Carbon emissions increase, it’s harder to breathe, while Governments retreat
Why don’t you open your eyes, open your mind, heed all the signs?Will we wait for our plants to die?
Will we wait for our waters to dry?
Before we make a stand
and fight hand-in-hand

CHORUS
So Let us rise up, for climate justice now
Let us fight for our right for a brighter today
Let us rise up, nothing can stop us now
Head's up, take a stand, let us lead the way... TO CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE

VERSE 3
Wake up and realize, there is no Planet B,
So how about we stop, think about our society
Why don't we go start a change, save the world we've estranged, for our future's sake
Let us start it today, no room for delay, you know there's a way

CHORUS
We will rise up, for climate justice now
We will fight for our right for a brighter today
We will rise up, nothing can stop us now
Head's up, take a stand, let us lead the way... TO CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGEBRIDGE
It's time to take our chance, and start a revolution
It's time to build a home for the next generation
Stand for the oppressed, fight for social equity
Hope inside our heart; we will make a legacy

END CHORUS
We will rise up, for climate justice now
We will fight for our right for a brighter today
We will rise up, nothing can stop us now
Head's up, take a stand, let us lead the way...
We will rise up, for climate justice now
We will fight for a better  tomorrow
We will rise up, nothing can break us down
Onward, up in arms, let us be the way... TO CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE