Explore Step 2.3: Picturing climate change – using a global perspective
Suggested Subject Area: Environmental Education, Geography and Literacy
Purpose To provide students with opportunities to:
View and become familiar with some values, viewpoints and different perceptions in our world society
Become familiar with using the arts as one way of crystallising and communicating issues and values
Learn from and evaluate pictorial information about how the climate is changing and its impact on people and places globally, and in doing so, to empathise with the people and situations shown
Develop skills involving viewing, comprehension, research, questioning, reporting and presenting.
View artwork from Russia, India, China, Iran, Brazil, Ukraine, USA, Japan, Australia, Germany, Qatar and Brunei.
Also, check out the regional winners from Portugal, China, Bahrain, Egypt, Chile and USA.
Discussion Discuss how climate change messages are being communicated within the artwork, asking students to focus on what they think the artists are trying to say. What are some similarities between the images? What are some differences? Do the artists seem optimistic about the future or concerned? Note the student’s ideas of actions that can be implemented to adjust to the uncertainties of a changing climate. Discuss these.