Writing Climate Change: Science Knowledge in Creative Forms; Part Two: from Reading to Writing

Authors

Lytton SmithFollow

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

Summer 2025

Abstract

This lesson explores how a short creative piece by Ada Limón, U.S. Poet Laureate, draws on climate science knowledge to engage readers informationally, imaginatively, and emotionally. Students will reflect through discussion and/or writing on both the scientific methodology and the questions of equity and justice her poem raises. Finally, students will engage in a guided writing prompt where they research science knowledge around climate change and use what they find to shape their own short creative pieces (100-300 words), based in that science.

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Closed captions available at:

• https://youtu.be/328wFvJfaYo (Part One)
• https://youtu.be/ayK-REztS3E (Part Two)

Live Google Doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SmK6a3IDoK59mUyb5DofV3JyJTOYO22GJulcks5ERn4/edit?tab=t.0

Recommended Citation

Smith, Lytton, "Writing Climate Change: Science Knowledge in Creative Forms; Part Two: from Reading to Writing" (2025). Climate Change and the Individual, 2025-26. 6.
https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/ideas-that-matter-25-26/6

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