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2025 Week 2 Session
Climate Change & Food

Week 2 Curriculum

Welcome to Week 2 of the CoT Program. This page contains the program curriculum for the Week 2 session.

Objectives: The objectives of this session are to:

Discuss how food contributes to climate change.
Introduce ways we can all commit and take actions to make food choices that are climate friendly.
Focus on engaging younger generations and communities on the climate change to accelerate youth-centered actions to stay "Future Ready."

Resources

Week 2 Facilitator Handbook Excerpt: Here
Climate Change & Food Commitment Pledge: Here
Climate Change & Food Commitment QR Code Worksheet: Here
Teen Registration (deadline to register is Feb 7th): https://bit.ly/2025cotteenregistration.
Project Team Name Submission: Here

Center of Transformation

BGCGW CoT
Intro Video

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Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_6AohXf8J1VxBOL_wGCEG05G4UcWli0Z/view?usp=share_link
Duration: 6 min 40 sec

Climate Change & Food

Learning Video

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Direct Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aotH2-Au_Dv6OCTp5l4tvQkO5NwVCmd9/view?usp=sharing
Duration: 2 min 03 secs

Weekly Activities

Climate Change and Food

Exercise or Activity

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Part 1: Climate Change & Food Commitment Pledge Competition
1. Take the Pledge: CoT Facilitators and teens should pledge their commitment to take positive climate change and food actions by taking the online commitment pledge at: https://forms.gle/FxmUjq2UkX5G7A2W6.
2. Competition:
  - Each project team must work to get others in their community to also take the climate change online.
  - Team members can use the printable Commitment Pledge QR Code Worksheet to share the link or use the QR Code on the left.
  - The Project Team that gets the most pledges by the end of the commitment campaign will win a team prize.
  - The deadline to get pledge commitments will be Friday, February 14, 2025.
  - The goal is to get a total of 1,000 commitment pledges by the end of the campaign (February 14th).
Part 2: Climate Change & Food Video
1. Each project team will record a brief video (60-90 seconds).
2. Ensure videos are recorded horizontally not vertically.
3. Videos must contain the following:
  - Project Team Name
  - Explain how food contributes to climate change, from your team's perspective.
  - Discuss why this issue matters to your team.
  - Share one action your team will take to make climate-friendly food choices to protect the planet.
4. **A top video of the week will be selected based on quality editing and content shared.**
5. Upload your video using the online below (for those with technical difficulties email the video or link to the video to: cot@bgcgw.org).

Wrap-up

1. Facilitator Debrief:

What was one thing you learned about how food affects climate change?
Which pledged action are you most likely to implement?

2. Facilitator:

Take the Climate Change & Food Commitment
Ensure each Project Team submits their Week 2 Climate Change & Food Video (use the upload form above).
Remind teens who have not completed the registration (before Feb 7th) to register at: https://bit.ly/2025cotteenregistration.
Submit or update your Project Team Name and team members at: https://forms.office.com/r/hTPRBuWuv6.
Record attendance for Week 2.
Provide an Overview of Week 3.

3. Teens:

Complete Teen Registration (before Feb 7th) to register at: https://bit.ly/2025cotteenregistration.
Take the Climate Change & Food Commitment Pledge and get others to at (by February 14th): https://forms.gle/FxmUjq2UkX5G7A2W6
Submit your Week 2 Climate Change & Food Video (use the upload form above).

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