ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors explain how all six units such as: Systems and Scale; Plants; Animals; Decomposers; Ecosystems; Human Energy Systems use carbon and energy tracing as a tool for climate change teaching and learning. The authors describe teaching and learning that is foundational for understanding climate change (before the unit), teaching strategies they adopt in the Human Energy Systems unit (during the unit), and the practices they use to prepare students to use science to inform citizenship in their communities (after the unit). To prepare students to understand the phenomenon of climate change, the authors adopt a three-dimensional learning approach that is based on three crosscutting concepts: Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation, Scale, Proportion, and Quantity, and Systems and System Models. The authors argue that in their teaching and learning about climate change they should be preparing students to engage in critical discussions about climate change outside of their classrooms.
