ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the Young Voices for the Planet (YVCC) documentary film project, a series of films that champions young people's actions in response to serious environmental problems. The centerpiece project is the film series, Young Voices for the Planet (YVFP), which showcases intrepid youth working on a range of environmental issues. Developing self-efficacy in young people helps to enhance their personal growth as well as their role as global citizens. Bandura describes that self-efficacy is enhanced as it relates to youth/child activism. The type of learning exemplified in the Young Voices for the Planet films, also referred to as problem-based instruction, embodies the best practices of inquiry-based science promoted by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The importance of integrating place-based and solution-based actions in our work with children and youth cannot be overemphasized. The chapter aims to support students' self-efficacy by providing them with tools to cope with a new world that they have so unfairly inherited.
