Instructions:

Students will contact community leadership about a climate change related issue that they feel is important. Leadership should include local Indigenous community leaders as well as their MP and/or mayor etc. Students will be expected to express their understanding of the issue using drawing on Indigenous land-based and Western Scientific examples. Students will also outline an action plan that can be followed to address the issue (eg: the steps required to plant a tiny forest to sequester carbon etc.). Students should be given options for how they would like to showcase their understanding ie: comic book, poetry, prose, video, etc.

The following tasks should be completed:

• Describe the problem from different lenses (government, corporation, student, Indigenous communities etc.).
• Determine the local/national/global impacts/outcomes of the problem.
• Decide what policy changes need to happen to address the problem.
• Explain how Indigenous ways of knowing, being and relating to the land help guide the action that needs to be taken.
• Articulate how individuals help guide the action that needs to be taken.
• Present an action plan intended to enact change (i.e. step by step).
• Explain how the change helps to restore relations of reciprocity with the natural world.